Example sentences of "the [noun] go [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | Often most benefit is gained if the teacher goes over key points with the group afterwards to check on understanding . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the lights went on five minutes later , we were still all lying on the floor . |
| 5 | By that I meant that the Treasury had cleared the papers for Cabinet and that agreement on the policy went back several months . |
| 6 | As soon as the blindfold is applied , remove the obstacles and watch the children going over imaginary items . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | xo Keen to trumpet its part in the future of offshore energy , the company went back 25 years . |