Example sentences of "goes [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Fair goes the dancing when the sitar 's tuned ;
2 Coupled with her hope that the war may end in a stalemate goes the hope that she may never be obliged to become a belligerent nation .
3 But along with this goes the idea that to talk of ‘ the mind ’ is to talk of something actually in the head , or at any rate capable of making contact with the rest of the body via the brain .
4 That goes the holly and the ivy .
5 Wham ! goes the table and thirty feet of hors d'oeuvres are on the floor .
6 So the first man goes the house and he goes and opens the door and you hear the door .
7 And so on and so on for another hour and a half , sweating and dazed , until at 4.48 a.m. , extremely painfully , out comes young Tom ( not such a bad name ; commonplace , I know ) , emerging head looking like a terrifically cross blue Brussels sprout , splosh go the fluids , splat goes the placenta and there he is .
8 With this goes the argument that small enterprises tend to be more efficient than larger ones , both in their use of scarce resources and the flexibility of their response to market processes .
9 That would be an extravagance of classicallly based compliment and then Milton the puritan comes along and says to himself that wo n't do , we need a footnote , and in goes the footnote if true here only — do n't forget that these classical legends are all lies .
10 And he goes no man and he just walks away .
11 It goes every day and I can assure you that your cousin who is helping Germany to victory with her work will receive them very quickly . ’
12 But once he was safely out of sight , these same strangers unclenched their buttocks and declared that ‘ there goes a wrong'n if ever there was , who 'll end in a gallows dance . ’
13 But you see three quarters of an hour , if we , if we , when er Ken , Ken and Freda 's an hour and a half , er , it soon goes an hour and a half with company like that do n't it ?
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