Example sentences of "it [verb] go [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ To be honest , Clem , it started to go out twenty years ago when we failed to join the Common Market at the outset . |
2 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |
3 | ‘ It 's an unexploded bomb , Piper , and if it had gone off last night a lot of you silly buggers would have gone with it . ’ |
4 | In the last half hour , it 's gone up 6 inches . |
5 | Well today , poll tax has now gone up one pound , but for the old fogies it 's gone down one pound |
6 | Well it 's gone down this week . |