Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv] [adv] [subord] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There is not much evidence that real wages in Europe began to go up significantly until the later part of the 1860s , but even before then the general feeling that times were improving was unmistakable in the developed countries , the contrast with the disturbed and desperate 1830s and 1840s was palpable .
2 When she was discharged , she had to go home alone because no one had told her family .
3 The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats .
4 Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up .
5 She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum .
6 Australia and New Zealand even wanted to go as far as the international operation of aircraft on trunk routes .
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