Example sentences of "to go [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His best friend did not go to the funeral because he had already decided to go on a day trip to France ! |
| 2 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 3 | ARSENAL manager George Graham has been given the green light to go on a Christmas spending spree . |
| 4 | Yeah because he 's got to go on a month 's course for a start , for just general and then we 've got to try and find him a a week 's course somewhere as A L O , I do n't know where but er in that time . |
| 5 | But then , it 's a big difference between skiing abroad and you know , like staying somewhere like Cyprus skiing in Scotland , it 's true , but I mean , it 's like the first , I mean , my dad 's typical , sort of , get to the top of the hill and give you a good shove , you know , give you one time to go down a bit slowly and then after that you just get to the top ski downhill phhhh . |
| 6 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 7 | Some , through failing health or eyesight , were obliged to go down a couple of rungs on the ladder however , and there are an increasing number of cases in the 1940s of former compositors working as copy-holders for lower pay . |
| 8 | If I get home at 12.30 I probably wo n't want to go down a club , but I 'll pull a beer out of the fridge , sit down and have a laugh at everybody else making pillocks of themselves , including the prat who calls him self the Hitman . |
| 9 | I recently watched Dorothy Heathcote , halfway through a lesson on preparing for robbing a bank , release some junior school pupils into a free-play experience where they were to go down a manhole and then search the sewers under the bank . |
| 10 | Mike Wood normally flies Hawk jets but he 's happy to go down a step to share the piloting with Squadron Leader , Tim Farmer who 's happy to step up from his normal ground based job as a health and environment officer . |
| 11 | Severe wind turbulence caused my canopy to go down a lot faster than normal . |
| 12 | Queenie , come up to my office right away will you , I want to go over a mistake in the takings . |
| 13 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 14 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 15 | Breakfast Car will probably have to go up a grade and go to slightly posher places . ’ |
| 16 | Very , very high gear on it , we used to go out a couple of us |
| 17 | ‘ We 'll be able to go out a bit while I 'm on this early shift , ’ she said consolingly . |
| 18 | ‘ If you 're not seen to go out a lot , you 're a failure , ’ he said . |
| 19 | They said well er I thought perhaps he was away preaching , she says oh no they do n't want any of m our people used to go out a lot preaching , but they do n't want any of them now because it 's too deep for them |
| 20 | SUCH has been the scale of reopenings ( not to mention survivals ) of lines and stations in the 1980s that to put matters in perspective it is necessary to go back a bit in history . |
| 21 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 22 | We 'd want to go back a bit before that . |
| 23 | Oh I 'd forgotten about that , right I had to go back a couple of times did n't I Bev ? |
| 24 | Just to go back a stage , to a comment you made there , you you did say that the inner relief road on one of the routes , on one of those routes , would in fact enable environmental benefits to be felt elsewhere in the town , simply because you 're getting a better distribution of the traffic . |
| 25 | I have to go back a stage , I have n't actually explained what these four to you , on this page you 've got four boxes . |
| 26 | But since we 've won in Barcelona , we 've had to go around a lot to dinners and appearing on television shows like A Question of Sport and Blue Peter . |
| 27 | Yeah , I think you 'll have to go round a bit . |
| 28 | Break it to go round a planting bed , make a circle on which to stand a large plant pot or statue , or to give a paved area around a rotary clothes dryer . |