Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] go [adv prt] [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 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 .
4 The pair tied the knot in July , and the last-minute wedding went off to a tee …
5 Trouble from racists who objected to a white woman going out with a black man .
6 Clap your hands and insist that natural gas goes up in a puff of noxious air .
7 From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck .
8 I have of course no intention of suggesting that this intellectual and , by implication , political revolution went on without a single hitch .
9 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 .
10 Setback number one arose the night before the game when their regular goalkeeper went down with a mystery illness .
11 There was an early nineteenth-century firescreen to go back to a house in Trinity Street .
12 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 .
13 The enjoyment of gross physical activity goes on for a long time , progressing to skipping and rushing-about games .
14 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 .
15 Successful applicants go on to a three-day assessment course .
16 And tonight , her desperate impatience to go out at a particular hour …
17 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
18 A very young kid goes out for a walk with his parents he 's only ever seen cats and dogs before they go
19 These are abused young children going back to a parent and troubled adolescents returning home from residential care .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 The royal dinner went on for a long time , but at last Fritz , Sapt , and I were alone in the King 's dressing-room .
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