Example sentences of "goes the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think we can beat Glenavon but will have to keep our fingers crossed that the other game goes the right way for us , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Tap-tap-tap goes the ancient forester with his trusty axe , runically carving a cleft in a knotted trunk to warn his fellow-woodsmen of a noxious toadstool which groweth hereabouts . |
| 3 | But the touch of class does not happen by accident and into every piece of flooring goes the wide-ranging skills of the UK company 's workforce . |
| 4 | ‘ Swift goes the sooty swallow … swifter than skims the cloud-rack of the skies . ’ |
| 5 | I think the problem is perhaps that when we love that we no , we never love the same degree , the two people do n't li , love exactly the same way that in every relationship there is one who loves and one who is loved , one who kisses and one who is kissed and I think perhaps this balance if the relationship is weak , this kind of works it out that , that then they eventually split up , that one goes the other way and the ca n't stay together . |
| 6 | And if it goes the other way , and he 's called guilty of murder , then , worse , he 'll hang . ’ |
| 7 | So if it suddenly goes the other way round |
| 8 | It goes the other way . |
| 9 | How do you mean , it goes the other way ? |
| 10 | What no fanny , it goes the other way . |
| 11 | Mine goes the other way . |
| 12 | I think very often the influence goes the other way . |
| 13 | Traditionally , I always feel that the influence goes the other way . |
| 14 | mm , cos listen to what I mean , Ollie goes , I was sitting next to Ollie yeah and she looks at my thingy , yeah , and she goes that 's what , you 've missed out three , so I sat there writing all the nec numbers , yeah , and miss goes the other table and I 'm like oh come on Carla hurry up and do the numbers inside , and I missed , I just could n't , I could n't catch up |
| 15 | So goes the traditional explanation . |
| 16 | Without exchange controls , goes the standard retort , commercial customers could easily dodge such controls by borrowing from abroad . |
| 17 | ‘ Why do n't you just change the paper 's name to New Morrissey Express and have done with it ? ’ goes the usual enquiry , ‘ he 's on your cover every bloody week anyway ! ’ |
| 18 | So far as desktop publishing goes the dominant range here is supplied by Bitstream , indeed most packages seem to provide the basic Dutch ( Times ) and Swiss ( Helvetica ) faces free of charge . |
| 19 | ‘ An Englishman 's home is his castle , ’ goes the old adage . |
| 20 | ‘ Never judge a book by its cover ’ goes the old adage . |
| 21 | In the inch wars , Ryvita helps you win — so goes the old advert punch line , but which of the two main Graphical User Interfaces is likely to be the one to give you the best operating environment ? |
| 22 | In goes the coarse strainer , and the charcoal pad with the white side facing the foam . |
| 23 | With the job goes the enormous responsibility of ensuring that the equipment is always on top form . |
| 24 | It goes the opposite way to this . |
| 25 | The Siemens display goes the whole hog . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry ! ’ goes the disembodied voice ; ‘ I 'm as pissed off about this as you are . |
| 27 | POLICY GOES THE FULL CIRCLE |
| 28 | It 's had everything else it goes the full circle in the end does n't it ? |
| 29 | Out goes the bottom name , Sean Gael , and all his votes are shared among those voters ' second choices . |
| 30 | Or so goes the conventional wisdom . |