Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] go [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Abyssinians could claim an uninterrupted succession going back more than two thousand years ; in Africa , only Egypt had a more ancient civilization . |
| 2 | Will my right hon. Friend go as far as to say that we definitely intend in the fulness of time to bring in legislation and , I hope , include in the legislation the provision that there should be at least one employee representative among pension fund trustees ? |
| 3 | A male rabbit goes even further and sprays the female with his urine as he leaps over her . |
| 4 | The problem of the uneven playing-field goes much deeper than those arising from non-compliance . |
| 5 | My dealings with the café owner have left me with the impression that he has got to breaking point with the number of canoeists being attracted to the Fairy Glen and has singled out a canoeist who happens to drive a red Escort van and has used this as an excuse for stopping other canoeists when the real reason goes much deeper and in my opinion is linked to financial gain . |
| 6 | In 1956–7 a mass inoculation campaign in Loliondo division against bovine pleuro-pneumonia went seriously awry and thousands of cattle died . |
| 7 | The arrival of this ‘ adventitious ’ rural population goes back further than is often assumed , and is by no means a purely post-war phenomenon . |
| 8 | Members of the radical Inter-regional group went so far as to table a motion of no confidence in the government , but a vote on whether to consider this motion was heavily defeated on May 29 . |
| 9 | In 1958 regular recruiting went far better than the demographers had predicted , and the Army Council was able to substantiate its claim for a higher manpower ceiling . |
| 10 | Although the concept of what we now call a black hole goes back more than two hundred years , the name black hole was introduced only in 1967 by the American physicist John Wheeler . |
| 11 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 12 | Susie Cooper 's career as a talented designer goes back more than 60 years , during which she has won international acclaim . |
| 13 | Nazi thugs burn down Sony 's Berlin premises : Chancellor Kohl wins big cheers when he says the perpetrators are just high-spirited hooligans , reminds listeners that German-Japanese friendship goes back more than 50 years . |
| 14 | one piece round here and then the other piece goes around there and it 's the only thing is |
| 15 | more cunning stuff going on here as well . |
| 16 | I think that there ought to be a proper company wide inst or certainly U K wide instruction going out so that everybody 's aware of the changes |
| 17 | But a snooker ball is n't twice as big , you know when a snooker ball hits something the other ball goes away quicker than the ball that 's hit it yeah ? |
| 18 | Naturally , he told his friends and this other man went along too and he got some pills . |
| 19 | No other state went so far as this ; but then none needed to , for none started from the same position of isolation and estrangement from the outside world . |
| 20 | These are the people who ensure that the week-long adventure goes as smoothly as possible for children such as Amelia . |
| 21 | For Dr. Citterio , this classic antipasto goes back more than 110 years . |
| 22 | The Anisminic decision goes much further than this and says in effect that A 's decision can be set aside by the courts if they disagree with his interpretation of the rules which he is required to apply . |
| 23 | Yeah , but he looks really scared they go , the whole back goes right up and he looks . |
| 24 | The bad feeling goes back further than that — because the England striker was himself red-carded after a bust-up involving Walsh at Leicester two seasons ago . |