Example sentences of "[verb] go a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a good idea of Lewis Carroll to think of the March hare because in March hares tend to go a bit potty and they stand on their back legs and box each other . |
| 2 | This is great as far as it goes , but it needs to go a lot farther ! |
| 3 | Monika said yesterday : ‘ He needs to go a lot further for me to be happy — but these letters are certainly a start . ’ |
| 4 | For a really good view of it you 'll need to go a couple of miles to the north . |
| 5 | Dad has gone a bit funny about sex . |
| 6 | UK manufacturer Input has gone a step further and coiled not just one , but two 5m flexible cables into the same body , and instead of just the one socket on the body of the reel , they have but another socket on the end of the second trailing lead . |
| 7 | MOST HISTORIANS simply rely on archives — Peter Wynne-Thomas has gone a step further by creating one . |
| 8 | BBC network television has gone a step further and introduced a sexual harassment hotline , which , though it sounds like one of the services advertised in David Sullivan 's tabloid journals , is intended to root out rather than promote unwanted lubricity . |
| 9 | The Labour party has had similar problems and has gone a step further . |
| 10 | For Jeffery Taylor , arts correspondent for the Mail on Sunday claims the Northern Ballet Theatre has gone a touch too far . |
| 11 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that in some modern societies there is considerable reason to suppose that , as yet , the ego and superego-degradation has gone a lot further then the externalization of the superego functions of the state , but that there is no reason why in these circumstances the externalization process should not rapidly catch up . |
| 12 | The saga of Hereford Cathedral 's Mappa Mundi has gone a stage further . |
| 13 | We have learnt a lot from the Nicaraguan experience and as far as the woman question " is concerned , we hope to go a bit further . |
| 14 | Imagine going a home run with someone you know . |
| 15 | Last night he 'd gone a work . |
| 16 | we enjoyed walking home , I thought he 'd gone a bingo , that 's funny were n't you going home baby sitting . |
| 17 | And knowing he 'd gone a bit too far , and glad enough , now his fright and anger were fading , to have faced down Lachlan 's temper and Farquhar 's knife unharmed , Duncan Rua was satisfied to grin back , and turn aside to work the ship . |
| 18 | Cos nowadays if you if you did something like that folk would say you 'd gone a bit funny . |
| 19 | Heard she 'd gone a bit funny . ’ |
| 20 | I thought you 'd gone a bit shitty . |
| 21 | He broke off as Jim Miller let go a Indian whoop of relief and delighted grins spread across the faces of everyone in the group . |
| 22 | I let go a lungful of air , slumped back against the parapet and lit another Capstan . |
| 23 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 24 | ‘ We 've all come a long way , Carrie , and we 're going to go a lot farther … but come inside , I think Christian 's found that bottle of brandy that I 've been hoping he 'd forgotten . ’ |
| 25 | but er it tends to go a bit out of your head . |
| 26 | I hope people will be able to let go a bit and stop analysing . |
| 27 | Would n't miss a meetin' , an' one day she started goin' a bit funny . |
| 28 | But things started going a bit wrong before she could start . |
| 29 | Things may have gone a bit quiet on Intel Corp 's joint venture with VLSI Technology Inc to develop chips that include iAPX-86 cores for use in handheld devices , but Intel says that the effort is quietly progressing and that early next year it expects to see manufacturers offering small , lightweight hand-held computers based on the new chips ; Intel is currently preparing fully functional samples of the chips for shipment to manufacturers in the second half . |
| 30 | I thought he must have gone a bit ga-ga but there was no harm so I went up to my room and did my hair a bit . |