Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv prt] [prep] a [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 | Manchester United at home to Bolton were held to a goal-less first half first forty five minutes , and they had to wait until the seventy seventh minute before taking the lead through Hughes , and United go through with a one nil win . |
| 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 | As might be expected , how useful the process of review is in proposing changes , and the extent to which teachers favoured going on to a second round of the scheme are both significant , those thinking that it is very or fairly useful being slightly positive and those thinking it not very or not at all useful , being slightly negative . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Had to go up to a hundred . |
| 8 | So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ? |
| 9 | No matter the weather , one had to go out to a privy next to a coalshed in the backyard . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Jane tried to comfort Flora by telling her that her own two younger children had got itchy feet at sixteen too , and left school : her son had gone on to a sixth form college which he found highly satisfying — ‘ One 's treated like an adult , ’ and her daughter to do a foundation course in art . |
| 12 | As the euphoria had gone along with an irrational faith in the Gaullist saviour , so the deepening disillusionment of 1945 , essentially an adjustment to reality , was reflected in a desanctification of the saviour figure . |
| 13 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 14 | In the winter he had gone down with a slight burst of influenza and anyone would have thought it was the plague . |
| 15 | Our second daughter Rachel had gone off to a finishing school near Florence , while Ailsa and her painter husband had bought a house in the country near Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk . |
| 16 | He went quickly downstairs and left a note for his mother saying that he could n't sleep and had gone out for an early morning bike ride . |
| 17 | Her social life seemed to be quite full , and she had gone out with a young man on a couple of occasions . |
| 18 | When someone came into the room he realised he had gone out in a sweet unconscious . |