Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( If one refrains from oiling the gear teeth of a grandfather clock , the teeth will not only not collect the dust and so not grind each other away , but also become harder and more polished as times goes on and so last virtually for ever . ) |
| 2 | We used to sit in the garden for hours going over her various plans to get married . |
| 3 | Now Agnew again , great ball for Speedy and that 's the kind of defending that Forest have been missing from Colin Cooper Just hurt his shoulder then but he 's er still holding it as play goes on and Whitlow quite clearly holding Collimore then |
| 4 | DEC 's announcement that it would concentrate on OSF/1 only for the Alpha range made enough customers angry for DEC to go back to its business plan and think again . |
| 5 | Their minds being on Emma , they waited for Peggy to go on , but after placing a piece of wood on the fire she turned to them with a smile , saying , ‘ What about a drink ? ’ |
| 6 | As money goes up , er , you can you can negotiate figures |
| 7 | As crime goes up , people see it as a way of protecting their property do n't they |
| 8 | But the counting of the dead and the search for survivors goes on , the residents of Plainfield , less than four thousand of them , are familiar with this sort of havoc ; in nineteen sixty seven , a tornado killed thirty two people . |
| 9 | However , as month after month went by , I became more and more convinced that the real problem with the health service was a lack of management . |
| 10 | A cry for help went out to Kings and Princes of the West , and Richard was one of the first to respond , receiving in November 1187 the piece of material cut into the shape of a cross which was the badge of all crusaders . |
| 11 | It is possible for parents to go on behaving as they have always done towards their children , without making adjustments as they are needed . |
| 12 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 13 | Sell-off plans for Strangeways in Manchester slipped out when application forms for bids went out . |
| 14 | Nothing left at the scene , nothing for Wickham to go on . |
| 15 | She looked to the young man as if for reassurance , and he smiled back and nodded for Ellie to go on in , which she did without , much to her surprise , suddenly finding herself sitting upright at home in bed , clutching her thin bedding around her and wondering how her mind could imagine such things . |
| 16 | There 's a lot of change going on in the game at the moment , which is always a healthy sign . |
| 17 | Then I suddenly found I had quite a lot of projects going on , working for Kenny Rogers and Jimmy Ruffin … |
| 18 | And there would be all sorts of hanky-panky going on … |
| 19 | As a matter of principle , the bank in such circumstances should not be entitled to rely on the transaction and this is the view which has been taken by a series of authorities going back to the beginning of this century . |
| 20 | Firstly the price of admission went up by 50pc at the beginning of the season a lot of money in an area which still has among the worst unemployment rates in mainland Britain ( and the lowest amount of disposable income per head of population if we are getting into statistics ) . |
| 21 | The work of solicitors goes back to the 15th century and as time has gone on they have become increasingly influential . |
| 22 | ‘ There seems to be an awful lot of noise going on , darling , ’ said Mrs Wexford sleepily . |
| 23 | I said , there 's loads of building going on and we have had money to do this and it 's jolly well time . |
| 24 | ‘ A lot of knitting went on then , too . ’ |
| 25 | And turning away from calls to battle and the accompanying rise in blood pressure , it seems reasonable for teachers of literature to go on teaching what they have been trained to teach , and what they like , understand , and are familiar with , without also having to take on many varieties of history — intellectual , cultural , political , social , economic , artistic , and musical — not to mention sociology , the study of popular culture , including the merest graffito , and , inevitably , literary theory . |
| 26 | Of course to go back to something I think Kirsty or somebody said , erm this could also happen un unconsciously could n't it ? |
| 27 | She also had the run of the library and she could of course go out , as long , he warned her with a sardonic look , as she did n't wander off with strange men . |
| 28 | of course goes on about what he always goes on about and er I would remind him that the supplementary estimates which is in the amendment here , is also in the amended motion which is proposed by the Conservatives and had all party support on every committee that it 's come to . |
| 29 | Mario of course went on racing in America . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , I dropped the paintbrush , which of course went down the loo . |