Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 2 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 3 | Our very own Adventures deal in all the things that seemed to go AWOL in the late 80s — luscious harmonies , strong guitar driven songs with big big choruses , all topped with strong echoes of classic 60s pop . |
| 4 | She 'd gone on into a book-lined room which appeared to be in use as an office , and she was placing the shotgun along with two others in a locking steel cabinet . |
| 5 | He liked his porter , but if he 'd gone back to the stable … |
| 6 | I 'd gone across to the old folks ' home to have a chat with Maureen and , inevitably , I was telling her about the trouble I was having . |
| 7 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 8 | Conscientious objection rose markedly ; 40 of the 400-strong military contingent ordered to go out with the anti-aircraft missiles refused to do so . |
| 9 | The National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education , which represents staff in both sectors , last night rejected an improved offer for further education staff and decided to go ahead with a one-day strike tommorrow and to begin boycotts of marking and examination setting . |
| 10 | By then , such gestures were not enough to placate the civil rights supporters who decided to go ahead with a proposed march through Armagh City on 30 November . |
| 11 | He dismissed the subject from his mind and decided to go down to the tiny lunchroom he ran for his employees , to get a cup of coffee . |
| 12 | Nonetheless , I started going out with the Thai development workers , to visit villages and meet the people I would be working with for the next two years . |
| 13 | I kept going back to the interesting and varied articles , and I liked the fact that it is neither too career-oriented nor too mumsy . |
| 14 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 15 | If not I suggest it should be and , er , therefore if unfortunately the profits of the company did go down in the foreseeable future the salaries of yourself and your directors would be reduced . |
| 16 | He had not much enjoyed the campaign , and whether because of this or of the result , he had to go immediately on a two-day walk from Kingham to Oxford to purge himself of his ‘ humours ’ . |
| 17 | Either he had to go up to the Broken Hill Ironworks at Newcastle or she had to go down to Canberra to see some official about tariffs or quotas or immigration levels . |
| 18 | The tube I was in on Wednesday had to go slowly through a deserted and evacuated Victoria Station and one 's heart beats a little fast wondering if something will go off . |
| 19 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |
| 20 | No matter the weather , one had to go out to a privy next to a coalshed in the backyard . |
| 21 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 22 | The rear window of one of the shops looked out over poor Mary 's deposited remains and Martin had to go in through the narrow entrance to flash his lamp on it . |
| 23 | According to the Financial Times , such a move represented an attempt to create a " two-speed " CIS , with states like Ukraine , which wished to go ahead in the near future with the introduction of its own currency , " pushed at least to the edge of the CIS , if not out of it entirely " . |
| 24 | Bill Pritchard , whom we left going ashore at the Old Mole with his demolition control party and Philip Walton 's demolition squad , protected by Tiger Watson 's men , moved into the Old Town in commando fashion : each party , indeed each man , when alone , moved towards the target without waiting for support . |
| 25 | She said go now to the electrical desk and you can pay for them when no I do n't want to do that and I made her come out with me and see I picked up those teddies in the bags and I went back in and put them by the electrical desk |
| 26 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 27 | Gentle had successfully recreated one Gauguin previously , a small picture which had gone on to the open market and been consumed without any questions being asked . |
| 28 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 29 | She had gone on from the Noble Order of Lady Queen Bees ' meeting to a party given by one of the members , and was by now tired , cross and a little tipsy . |
| 30 | She was still not completely used to the journey northwards to the small empty house , when for so long she had gone southwards to the big flat near Westminster Cathedral , where her mother had waited , eager to hear every detail of her day . |