Example sentences of "the [noun] go [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption . |
2 | The computer went down for a while , it 's probably full of water |
3 | The bucket went up in a geyser of flame , yellow and blue and white . |
4 | The noise went on for a long time . |
5 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
6 | Dear Mr. Lum — who had been admitted to the Weavers ' Company himself in 1787 — had agreed to recommend his friend William Charles Titford , and the deal went through as a freedom by redemption — that is , by virtue of payment — rather than by apprenticeship or patrimony . |
7 | This had been of something more than philosophical interest to Karen and I in our pre-coital phase , since it meant that we could count on at least a minute thirty seconds before he reappeared , or as much as three minutes forty-five seconds if we heard the seat go down for a big jobby . |
8 | But while the search went on for a suitable donor , Evelyn and Peter Walker kept a constant vigil by their ten-year-old daughter 's hospital bedside . |
9 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
10 | The bow went off with a terrible noise , like bones breaking . |
11 | The saleswoman went over to a rack of ankle-length cottons in different colours . |
12 | But then there are other gardening programmes which very much perform that kind of mediating role you 're talking about , where one of the presenters goes along to a real person with an actual garden and asks the gardener how he or she sets about creating this garden and quite a number of those presenters are women . |
13 | The Boozebuster went off without a hitch . |
14 | Later on in the profession itself the process goes on at a different level . |
15 | Because the chemical reaction between ozone and chlorine lowers the temperature , this makes it even easier for ice clouds to form again the following winter and the process goes round in a circle . |
16 | The years went by in a bundle of exercise books , seasons succeeding one another as flycatchers came and went , orchids were noted and then vanished , temperatures varied from the normal . |
17 | Hotel duty manager George Ashou , who was only 10ft from the blast , said : ‘ The bomb went off with a muffled crump . |
18 | At the other end Tyrone Howe who saw very little of the ball during the match went over for a try in the left corner , following a fine break from Andrew Gallagher . |
19 | The place went up in a matter of minutes . |
20 | One time the father was away on business , and the stepmother went out to a harvest festival . |
21 | With soloist , conductor and orchestra on this kind of form , it is no surprise that the Finale goes off like a rocket . |
22 | and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter . |
23 | So long as someone knows you 're down there and comes to dig you out , then a basement 's always best , even if the rest goes down like a pack of cards . ’ |
24 | Remember what your psalmist says : ‘ The devil goes around like a lion seeking whom he would devour . ’ |
25 | When the court sat we were told that the King had died then the court went out for a while . |
26 | The plastic went off with a smack of solid air that stabbed pain into his ears and moved the container next to him . |
27 | The next day , Jellicoe and the guide went off to a nearby village , arranging to meet Bergé and his men on the beach . |
28 | In the House of Lords , the argument went off on a rather different tack . |
29 | You need the permission of the owner to go in for a title search so you 'd have to know the owner first . |
30 | The embrace went on for a long time , but Miguel kept his self-control , so that their kisses , although they grew sweeter and more languid , never became threatening . |