Example sentences of "the [noun] go [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 2 | And the , the price was thirty nine pounds and as far as I know at the time the , the pianos went down that terrace I do n't think anybody could play it properly . |
| 3 | If the spin is " up " the electron goes off one way , if it is " down " the electron goes off the other way , as in the figure . |
| 4 | So when the sun went down that night , and indeed . |
| 5 | The percentage went up last year , but the amount of the levy is still set to fall over the 1990s . |
| 6 | Often most benefit is gained if the teacher goes over key points with the group afterwards to check on understanding . |
| 7 | That was not , of course , achieved in six or seven months : the beginnings of the process go back several years , when our ‘ old ’ domestic Ethics Committee set up , in conjunction with the other Institutes , a joint Working Party on Independence and the Audit . |
| 8 | The curtain went up last night on The Little Shop of Horrors . |
| 9 | When the lights went on five minutes later , we were still all lying on the floor . |
| 10 | Apparently , when the polis went back this morning he found the house empty , bare , absolutely stripped , and Slim Boswell and the lasses gone , and every stick of furniture just vanished , the lot . |
| 11 | By that I meant that the Treasury had cleared the papers for Cabinet and that agreement on the policy went back several months . |
| 12 | Bending a pipe may be necessary when you want the pipe to go round another fitting or to fit through an oblique hole in a wall or ceiling . |
| 13 | That compares with an estimated 200,000 cocaine users and seizures by the police went up last year by 3,500% . |
| 14 | As soon as the blindfold is applied , remove the obstacles and watch the children going over imaginary items . |
| 15 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 16 | xo Keen to trumpet its part in the future of offshore energy , the company went back 25 years . |
| 17 | I believe I understand what makes the heart of Britain beat , what inspires all those millions of families across the land to go out each day to work and strive and create for the future . |
| 18 | Blaina always felt that they had the ability to go up last season so , to ensure that they do not miss out a second time , a new team manager was recruited and given the task of harnessing the club 's talent . |
| 19 | The company chose to divide its business in this fashion , Ferry says , because not only is the market going down this route , but Granada 's business is too . |
| 20 | Let the fire go out last night and we 've had it out all day have n't we ? |