Example sentences of "go [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only people who had trouble in adjusting to work were those who for some reason deviated from this model — either by going up the social scale or by going down it ( social mobility is more fully discussed by Geoff Payne in this volume ) . |
| 2 | She was supposed to do this , unless it was raining , by going out the front door and down the area steps , rather than through her grandmother 's bedroom . |
| 3 | Then when she was going out the next day and I made no attempt to open it , she said ‘ Where 's yer manners ? ‘ |
| 4 | oh just shoving sheets of plate into a , a machine that comes down and it take , it goes out the other end and you put another one in all day long |
| 5 | And on this particular occasion this feller ( if you go along the Low Road and up Fishpond Lane , there 's a farm up there : this feller came from that farm ) and after a setting in at The Case is Altered he died going up Fishpond Lane . |
| 6 | He turned and went down the four steps that led into the long , dark , low-ceilinged dining room , returning a moment later with a book from the shelves . |
| 7 | Men went down the main shaft and tried to clear it by shovelling the slurry into tubs which were then hauled to the surface but this was soon abandoned as it was realised that it would take weeks or months to clear a way through to the trapped men . |
| 8 | My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking . |
| 9 | The man who called himself Hope went down the sleepy cow-crossed and vagrant-strewn main street of Keswick with the speed and determination of the utterly resolved . |
| 10 | Go down the two ladders and enter the second door , walk down the steps and onto the stage , then it 's under the spotlight to perform all those great songs the Blues Brothers are famous for . |
| 11 | Surely it is the fact all the other counties have gone down the same road that has persuaded Yorkshire that , in order to compete on equal terms , they must follow suit . |
| 12 | have n't got it right actually , I mean basically we can go up the top shop and buy what we like ca n't we ? |
| 13 | at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing |
| 14 | I got up out the chair and er went out the front door and I said to her for God 's sake it 's Sunday ! |
| 15 | She goes Dear Doctor Allen , My Mum and Dad went out the other day and I was bored so I started rubbing my dog and my dog got turned on and so did I . |
| 16 | and she goes why , I goes well every time I got , when I went out the other night and when I come in the other night there was Helena with her arms round Andrew , so it 's not that I , I 'm worried about it but I just think it 's a bit tarty of her cos she 's fancies the pants off Pete and as soon as my back 's turned and Pete is n't there she 's all over Andrew . |
| 17 | one , yes , erm , was another lady and child , taking beeline for birthday cake , you know , they went out the same checkout as I did |
| 18 | If , if you buy a p a new pair of shoes and realize they 're faulty and you go back the next day and say I bought these shoes from you yesterday , I 've still got my receipt , I believe the shoes are faulty , can I have my money back ? |
| 19 | Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ? |