Example sentences of "[noun] go a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A death is always exciting , always makes you realise how alive you are — how vulnerable but so-far-lucky , but the death of somebody close gives you a good excuse to go a bit crazy for a while and do things that would otherwise be inexcusable . |
| 2 | But er I think erm the pound goes a lot further there , you 'll probably fe but I 'd probably feel like a millionaire in Jamaica |
| 3 | ‘ But , look , Gurder … maybe Angalo goes a bit too far , but he could be right . |
| 4 | But the pink went a bit |
| 5 | But changes in attitude go a lot deeper than watching the pennies . |
| 6 | But Ellice went a stage further ; she began to construct alliances with regulationists-especially with the local police chief , Inspector Aniss , bête noir of the repealers — who warmed to her clear message of rescue backed by greater control of the streets . |
| 7 | What , and I let the bread go a bit toasted first then |
| 8 | It is not faith going a second mile ; it is faith making its first full step and there is no going back . |
| 9 | . That 's just the things we do , with the coronary arteries , we do coronary artery by- passes , I can , I can sew like any woman , I can darn your socks , we stick the veins on and we re-establish the the heart going a bit faster . |
| 10 | Alongside the priority given to food and fuel goes a restriction of expenditure on items which are — or can be treated as — individual and less essential , like clothes , shoes , private transport and leisure . |
| 11 | With this mysterious absence of ‘ stain' goes a forgetting of grief ; though the Fellowship has just lost Gandalf in Moria , the fact is not mentioned for some twenty pages ( I , 350–70 ) , and indeed we are told that ‘ In winter here no heart could mourn for summer or for spring ’ . |
| 12 | Christian attorney Constance Cumbey goes a step further in The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow when she writes of the ‘ coming age of barbarism ’ , and describes the New Agers as a ‘ viable movement that truly meets the scriptural requirements for the Antichrist and the political movement that will bring him on the world scene ’ . |
| 13 | Some fish go a step further and display not one but a pair of false eyes . |
| 14 | She bawled lustily as each peg was snatched away , and screeched when the tip of the squirt went a centimetre too far to flick her quim lips . |
| 15 | The hearts of hopes of Oxford fans must have stopped beating at Peterborough on saturday when their team went a goal down , after 35 minutes as Sterling banged one in. 5 defeats in a row has been dreadful . |
| 16 | Nobody worries too much these days when Alton Bass go a goal behind . |
| 17 | Allied with this theoretical shift went a reconceptualization of the role played by heredity in individual development . |
| 18 | The service of the pastor was exemplified in Christ 's washing of his disciples ' feet , and so , whatever little present he might have received from another bishop , back went a towel from a seemingly inexhaustible linen cupboard . |
| 19 | The only time things went a bit quiet was when a couple of Eladeldi came in and sniffed around , on patrol , because all gatherings on the plat are at their sufferance , public or private . |
| 20 | Things went a bit flat among the cakes for some … but that 's as nothing to the one recurrent nightmare for the organiser |
| 21 | You see , some girl 's been out for a drink , or to a disco , met a fella , the fella invites her back , she goes , and things go a bit further than she intended . |
| 22 | It 's , it 's okay I mean when he 's away things go , actually things go a lot smoother . |
| 23 | Things go a lot smoother when he 's not here . |
| 24 | BRITISH Formula One team Lotus went a step further in their revival plans today by announcing a technical partnership with Mugen-Honda for a supply of V10 Grand Prix racing engines in 1994 and 1995 . |
| 25 | Gottfried , on the other hand , believes that Washington has the game to go a lot further . |
| 26 | But some of the latest claim to go a step further and act on the cells deep inside your skin . |
| 27 | With the chair went a canonry at the cathedral . |
| 28 | Mr Ball was the first Wall Street boss to be axed since Peter Cohen went a year ago in the dismantling of another 1980s tower of babel , Shearson Lehman Hutton . |
| 29 | deep cross coming in , brilliant header at the back post , Palace get a second goal and the scorer again is , uncovered at the back post , brilliant buildup down the left , superb finishing , the hero , Palace fans on their feet , Notts fans sit in silence , they trail two nil , with twenty minutes gone a push on , the referee looked across to the linesman on this nearside , Notts attacking the Lane end and the linesman said penalty , twenty one minutes gone here in this game , just a minute after scored . |
| 30 | After five minutes or so and a few shaky moments in some bankside undergrowth , a huge koi graced my net which when put on the scales went a shade over 15lb . |