Example sentences of "to go [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So , when the bombs start to go off the Western press will put it down to hard-liner elements still yearning for the days before Gorbachev arrived . |
| 2 | Also , it could give my guests time to go off the whole idea . |
| 3 | But it 's also normal to go off the whole idea . |
| 4 | And er but at er there you 'd got to go for the other two years , and some parents were rather wondering whether that left you late in the queue for a job , because jobs were very difficult . |
| 5 | ‘ But you ca n't be generous , you have to go for the best person for the job . |
| 6 | I hope you will choose a different path — to go forward , not back ; to go for the best , knowing that Britain can be the best and do it best . |
| 7 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 8 | Not only do you need to know where to go for the best prices , but you need information on when shops open and how to get there . |
| 9 | If only … if only … if only there could be some way of reaching agreement , some way of reassuring each player that the other can be trusted not to go for the selfish jackpot , some way of policing the agreement . |
| 10 | I 'll have to go for the froggy . |
| 11 | ‘ Not sure , really , though the little ones tend to go for the easy stuff . |
| 12 | Why was it everyone seemed to go for the easy way out ? |
| 13 | If that question is applied to the hard track arid gets a positive answer then it is no longer enough to go for the easy choice . |
| 14 | If the child does n't want to go for the first test or even the second test , it is their right . ’ |
| 15 | However erm if if you as a panel are one minded to go for the new settlement option and two , er minded to make a ren recommendation about particular geographical locations or sectors , erm I for one would be very concerned that this would be done on the basis of of insufficient technical erm information . |
| 16 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 17 | The next hurdle for Petrochemicals will be to go for the highest level Q1 Gold award which will involve another step up in performance . |
| 18 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 19 | His third round of 67 left them all for dead , and with 11 holes to go for the Open he was ten shots ahead of the field . |
| 20 | Tools are expensive , but it is often a false economy to go for the cheapest . |
| 21 | Best to go for the well-behaved species like O. adenophylla , with its pinkish lilac flowers , which are sometimes a rich magenta . |
| 22 | Dannii was the famous sister but Hardy yet again decided to go for the older girl . |
| 23 | When the first contestant to go for the top prize , Marine Captain Richard MacCutchin who , oddly , specialized in haute cuisine , pulled it off by describing the ingredients of a royal banquet given by George VI to the president of France , three-quarters of American television sets were tuned in to watch him wrestle for the answers . |
| 24 | Though physically a lightly built rugby player , he never hesitated to go for the top league and would be bounced and shaken regularly . |
| 25 | The mites tend to go for the smaller workers , probably because of their safer and passively fed lifestyle . |
| 26 | Choukeir will now decide whether to go for the French equivalent of an appeal ; a cancellation in the Supreme Court . |
| 27 | To go for the lapidary effect as such is sterile ; one tries for the lapidary because , if achieved , it is a guarantee of the verity of one 's feeling — Christian or non-Christian , as the case may be . |
| 28 | So now have to go for the contracting , the overseas jobs . |
| 29 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 30 | Let's , let's just put it here , A minus B times A minus B. Now it 's tempting to go for the easier ones in it as you did , so we 'll do the A squared , okay that 's no problem . |