Example sentences of "goes [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He goes on a bit … ’ |
2 | Goes on a bit thick . |
3 | So you 've got the children tomorrow lunchtime , you 've got the band tomorrow evening , but the library exhibition goes on a bit longer ? |
4 | It goes on a lot better than Amy 's . |
5 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
6 | This sort of feeble whining goes down a treat with women like Alison . |
7 | It goes down a treat at family do 's . ) |
8 | It loops it goes down a bit . |
9 | if I may give you a word of advice , you may think it 's rude , but when Mr is asking questions try not to turn down towards him , if you try and face across the jury , that 's what carries the voice if you 're looking at them , if you turn to your left , a bit of your head goes down a bit , it 's only natural , you 're not as used to courts as Mr is , er , he , he , your , it , your voice smothers , it 's not a question of shouting it 's just looking in the right direction , yes Mr go on |
10 | Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else . |
11 | This goes down a lot better . |
12 | There 's a path goes down a slope . |
13 | They may go down the field below the cave to a gate on the Kingsdale road which , followed to the left , goes over a rise to Deepdale and Dent , and to the right leads down the valley to the more probable destination of Ingleton which has accommodation , shops , refreshments and bus services . |
14 | Everyone is aware of the sensation experienced in a lift as it starts to descend , and in a car when it goes over a humped-back bridge . |
15 | They are used principally in forecasting , where the aim is not so much understanding the nature of the effects but predicting the net change that will occur in Y if X goes up a unit . |
16 | The interim dividend goes up a fraction to 3.1p , from 2.9p . |
17 | The interim dividend goes up a fraction to 3.1p , from 2.9p . |
18 | Of course the trouble with boats on a rising tide is that when the tide goes out a lot of those boats are left high and dry . |
19 | ‘ Elise goes out a lot on Sundays , ’ remarked Penry . |
20 | ‘ Ringwood 's history with dogs goes back a bit further . |
21 | We 're walking past this telly shop when Marie suddenly stops and goes back a couple of steps . |
22 | This goes back a generation , to when Maltese marriage customs were very strictly observed . |
23 | David must be the best company manager in the business , and our friendship goes back a decade or more . |
24 | But he goes back a lot further — writing key speeches in Number Ten during the Heath government two decades ago . |
25 | So the the Yes it 's been going back a the the name , the firm in that sense I think goes back a lot of years . |
26 | His protest , apparently , goes back a lot further , to the Synod of Whitby when , according to him , the Celtic Christian Church was sold down the river to Rome . ’ |
27 | When a four-wheel vehicle goes round a corner , the sum of the rotations of the rear wheels is different from the sum of the rotations of the front wheels . |