Example sentences of "go [prep] [art] very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ MPs do n't seem to go for the very expensive end of the Indian restaurant market , ’ says Peter Grove . |
2 | The DOS version is even cheaper — it goes for a very reasonable £59 . |
3 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
4 | But here in Chichester Chairman , it 's er a pretty serious situation where you 've got a a small river causing tremendous volumes of water er levels of which I think have never been experienced with anybody er going through a very small city built in eighteen hundreds I do n't know what time and date you know , but a very long time ago . |
5 | My boyfriend and I were going through a very rough patch at the time . |
6 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
7 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
8 | But Elvis was going through a very fat period , and I thought , ‘ Well , I 'll wait until he 's lost some weight , ’ because my childhood image was of a real animal of a person . |
9 | The electorate is going through a very difficult period . |
10 | It should be remembered that generalisation about bereavement or any deep experience in life can be dangerous if carried to extremes , and if you are caring for an elderly parent of either sex who has lost his or her partner , you will have no idea of just how painful their sorrow is for them , so it will be wise simply to assume , whatever their reaction may be , that they are going through a very bad time indeed . |
11 | ‘ Grey Day ’ is a perfect evocation of England going through a very bad patch . |
12 | The City is going through a very muddled stage at the moment — post-Big Bang — forgetting some of its traditional commonsense . |
13 | Remember , it only costs £1 a class and all the money is going to a very worthy cause , so why not enter as many different events as you can . |
14 | Or it goes into the very cheap coffees here and erm and no er what do you call it , Kwik Save sell some coffee and chicory mixture , which is forty four pence for a jar . |
15 | It had involved the use of a symbol and a photograph to produce a novel communicative request to go to a very specific location , and one that he could not request at his keyboard alone . |
16 | A colleague , Sarah , recently graduated , decided to go on a very low calorie diet . |
17 | It reads : ‘ Went for a very long bike ride and I was n't tired but Dad was knackered . ’ |
18 | You know when they said , when they went for a very radical policy |
19 | I went for a very short while to the Royal Academy of Arts for a leaving party being given for Mrs William Kerr , who firstly as Griselda Hamilton-Baillie then as Griselda Kerr , has worked so hard on the public relations staff of the Royal Academy , since 1972 . |
20 | You see we 've had some very good reports , I mean that went through a very bad patch but they 've this new Doctor Colin he 's meant to be pretty switched on |
21 | Thus , while the heavy organics industry — petrochemicals , plastics and fibres — went through a very bad period in the early 1980s and lost much money , many of the inorganic chemicals such as chlorine derivatives retained their traditional stability . |
22 | Apparently they went through a very hard time recently . |
23 | Once we reached the far side of the bridge we went via a very old iron kissing gate into the field which early in summer was always a mass of buttercups . |
24 | After reaching its early peak the Sussex iron industry went into a very long decline , which only finished when the Ashburnham forge closed in 1810 , at the height of the Napoleonic wars . |
25 | This makes for a remarkable degree of working-class homogeneity , at least for the descendants of those who arrived before 1920 when what had been the world 's wealthiest and most productive industrial region outside the USA went into a very rapid decline . |
26 | State Trooper Lamica added : ‘ He has gone into a very dangerous area . |
27 | He had gone in a very simple costume as ‘ The Kid ’ . |
28 | ‘ Basically , someone has to take a stand now otherwise all the single-teacher schools in the Borders could go in a very short time , ’ declared the association chairman , Annmarie Crowe , of St Abbs , yesterday . |
29 | So I went to a very good secondary school but I was in the A one stream right the way through and I was always within that top three of that A one stream and it gave me confidence and I really got on . |
30 | Next day we went to a very homely lunch party with a friend who has her very vivacious , elegant and almost magisterial 87-year-old mother living with her in winter ( she spends the summer in cooler Torino in the north ) , Antonietta Dohrn , whose grandfather , the close friend of Charles Darwin , who funded and founded the Zoological Station . |