Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the tax on company cars goes up by a third . |
| 2 | She 'd expected a steady upward climb , but suddenly the tunnel dipped and steps went down beside a white race of water . |
| 3 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
| 4 | ‘ All boats go up on a rising tide , ’ observes Frank Delaney philosophically at the end of one of those come-on-Fred-we-give-you-all-this-advertising-how-about-an-in-depth-profile pieces , in this case on Harper-Collins , that PN does so well . |
| 5 | Successful applicants go on to a three-day assessment course . |
| 6 | Rights and properties going back to a remote and undocumented past appeared to him to have a sanction which no later enactment — not even by the pope — could alter . |
| 7 | and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ammunition , grenades , and demolition explosives went off in a deadly firework display . |
| 10 | That 's despite profits going DOWN by a third to £778 million because of the hot weather . |
| 11 | Horns go back to an older world where surrenders were not accepted , to the dead defiant Roland rather than the brave , polite , compromise-creating Sir Gawain , whose dinner is served to ‘ nwe nakryn noyse ’ — the sound of chivalric kettledrums . |
| 12 | Our takings went up by a few shillings each week and pretty soon we had to expand and move the kitchens upstairs , where Malc 's Mom made our famous home-made pies ' . |
| 13 | Gomes went on to an unbeaten century , thanks to Malcolm Marshall . |
| 14 | Barkes went off with a torn calf muscle early in the second half , but Mark Butler stretched the lead with a penalty and a drop goal . |
| 15 | After a midweek game in London , the cousins went on to a two-day binge . |
| 16 | At Morrison & Gibb , according to one survivor , the girls went up to a special room to learn all the types , and another former Morrison & Gibb " learner " remembered that " you were given a card with the lay of the case " and just had to get on with it , practising until you could pick up the type correctly . |
| 17 | THREE arms go up in a golden salute as brothers Jonny and Greg Searle celebrate victory with Garry Herbert in the 2000m coxed pairs . |
| 18 | ‘ Invitations went out on a geographical basis so each night we had a good cross section of staff like roadworkers , clerical assistants or estimators . |
| 19 | Just as teacher secondment is most successful when teachers go out with a specific purpose in mind , so employer secondment works best when employers come into school with a particular task to perform . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A moment later he saw the second of the men go down with a sharp groan , clutching his balls . |
| 22 | The focal point of the assignment is not the software , nor the medium , but the skills and processes which pupils go through within a particular context . |
| 23 | But Rose 's looks went back to an earlier time with big , wide eyes and strong yet delicate profile . |