Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] go [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of this period matters had by no means gone as far as this , for the growth of political parties in eighteenth-century England was curiously erratic . |
| 2 | A police investigation at a school for disturbed children has been stepped up after claims of abuse going back more than twenty years . |
| 3 | In the early 1960s a number of economists went so far as to argue that growth had to be export-led [ Kaldor , 1971 ] . |
| 4 | The police are now also checking records of indecent assaults in Oxford , to see if the pattern of attacks goes back further than last year . |
| 5 | In my youth ( many years ago ) I worked as a redcoat at Butlin 's in Bognor Regis and used to be House Captain of York where we trained teams of holidaymakers to go as fast as possible . |
| 6 | The scene dealing with her adoration of Christ went no further than ‘ a few motions of the lips ’ — St Theresa 's moment of ecstasy was rendered by the image of Christ 's hand closing over hers . |
| 7 | The state is , in effect , assuming a parental responsibility , although the role of the state in the education of children goes much further than that , of course . |
| 8 | I worked at as a nurse and there 's , actually there 's a lot of pressure going on there as will back up . |
| 9 | Part of the three-year letter of intent went so far as to say — this is quite astonishing that for an initial period , which as far as I can recollect was never defined , British Rail should subsidise bus services because buses were being substituted for trains . |
| 10 | His interview with Law went as badly as it is easily possible to imagine . |
| 11 | And all this has happened with costs going down rather than up . |
| 12 | Like all withdrawals , the conversion of Empire into Commonwealth went far faster than was prudent or planned , thanks to American impatience , and to the hostility of the Communist and the Third World states . |
| 13 | In the 1950s and 60s dowries in India went down generally because gold was controlled , but not so in East Africa , where dowries rose as though they would never stop . |