Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] go [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |
| 2 | It was Alexander , formerly of Barnet , who demanded the only save Steve Ogrizovic was required to make — a low shot from the edge of the area forcing the man-mountain goalkeeper to go down with a motion usually greeted with cries of ‘ timber ’ . |
| 3 | Very few part-time farmers went away for a holiday so this should not be difficult . |
| 4 | If you had the additional capital to go all-out for a new start I 'd say it was almost a certainty . |
| 5 | That is to be increased and perhaps there should be an increase in the sentence for hardened criminals going out with a criminal purpose and carrying a knife . |
| 6 | The pair tied the knot in July , and the last-minute wedding went off to a tee … |
| 7 | Trouble from racists who objected to a white woman going out with a black man . |
| 8 | Clap your hands and insist that natural gas goes up in a puff of noxious air . |
| 9 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |
| 10 | I have of course no intention of suggesting that this intellectual and , by implication , political revolution went on without a single hitch . |
| 11 | At the time half the city 's school boards were distracted by criminal investigations — into how a grand piano went home with a board member , how their election hand-outs came to be printed by school members on school presses , why others dealt drugs and what exactly was the price of a promotion ( $10,000 could get you a deputy principalship in the Bronx ) . |
| 12 | The arrival of Islam and the Arabic language was to mark another of the great turning points in the history of Egypt , and their absorption by Egyptian society went on over a long period , being generally a peaceful and incremental process . |
| 13 | Setback number one arose the night before the game when their regular goalkeeper went down with a mystery illness . |
| 14 | There was an early nineteenth-century firescreen to go back to a house in Trinity Street . |
| 15 | In his strict , conventional way he had no wish for his pretty seventeen-year-old daughter to go out with a lance-corporal from the Pay Corps . |
| 16 | The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games . |
| 17 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 18 | Successful applicants go on to a three-day assessment course . |
| 19 | And tonight , her desperate impatience to go out at a particular hour … |
| 20 | Actually there are quite a few infuriating people went out for a drink what are you having to drink and she said oh whatever you 're having |
| 21 | The other girls went together in a group but I was on my own , and I suppose someone could have followed me from the dance … |
| 22 | A very young kid goes out for a walk with his parents he 's only ever seen cats and dogs before they go |
| 23 | These are abused young children going back to a parent and troubled adolescents returning home from residential care . |
| 24 | When the offer first came up we 'd had an even lower-budget series go out on a national US cable network but , apart from that critically-lauded effort , no TV experience . |
| 25 | There was this scene right at the end where the woman lights a cigarette after she 's left the gas on the cooker on and everything goes up in an explosion ; and then in the very next advert there was a car driving through a field , and the whole field went up in a sheet of flame . |
| 26 | She felt as if she were sinking deeper and deeper in her own panic , her whole consciousness going down into a quicksand while her body stood there , stupid with fear . |
| 27 | I 'd arranged with the local flying club to go up in a small ‘ Cub ’ training aircraft , which is well-suited for aerial photography as it has a very slow cruising speed . |
| 28 | In many respects , however , life in a special school is like any other day or boarding school , and it would be wrong to assume that rare and special things go on in a special school . |
| 29 | Air New Zealand , creators and sponsors of the event , could easily adopt the motto ‘ To make dreams , come true ’ , for the Fifth Golden Oldies was about dreams and such was the organisation by Clarrie Anderson and his team that the whole week went off without a hitch . |
| 30 | We see this as sufficient justification to go ahead at a pilot level of say eight student places ( rather than 15 for a later course with two lecturers ) , but also a warning that considerable effort will have to be put into consulting with partners both to incorporate their main concerns , and to advertise the course . |