Example sentences of "[conj] go [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So assertive is just being clear in what you want being prepared to keep going until you 've got something along those lines rather than letting people dismiss you or make you feel as though they 've dismissed you and your point not being considered i.e. your point not being heard or going away feeling that your point you did n't have a fair crack because you did n't give your point properly . |
| 2 | Too often the choice for the British filmmaker has seemed to lie between critical approval combined with minimal box office or going all-out to emphasize the most garish , flamboyant and parochial aspects of popular cinema . |
| 3 | Whether you are moving to another part of the country or going abroad let us know as soon as possible so that we can publicise details of your property to maximum effect . |
| 4 | Other topics might include moving from practice into industry , part-time working or going back to work full time while caring for a young family . |
| 5 | They suggest some of the typically simple pleasures of later life in the past , such as keeping parrots or pigeons , gardening or baking , playing dominoes , drinking a nightly glass of porter at home , or going out to gossip with old workmates . |
| 6 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |
| 7 | When family and neighbours failed , women resorted to the pawnshop and other ready means of obtaining credit or to whatever part-time work was available — hawking goods , taking in washing or going out charring . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's indicative of a seething hatred and the proximity of loyalist and nationalist areas which enables the killer gangs to drive into one another 's area in a minute and get back whether they are scouting or going in to murder . ’ |
| 9 | And I tend to draw , most o , most of us tend to draw them as straight lines with branches coming off they may actually show the chain as a twisted chain or zig-zag chain or going in to form a square or something ! |
| 10 | Her mother would have been happier if she had seen her walking or going off swimming , but after all , she was resting and that 's what she had brought her here for , and perhaps she was turning things over in her mind . |
| 11 | You may want to stop using , or go on to substitute drugs . |
| 12 | The pattern of habits we either already have or go on to acquire can fall into types . |
| 13 | When things go badly wrong , is it best to abort the mission , cut one 's losses and use the resources more effectively elsewhere , or go on trying ? |
| 14 | that you would either remain at level five , or go up to level six |
| 15 | I remember coming home from school and before you could do homework or go out to play there were always chores to do — you know , our own set of chores . |
| 16 | He must have been hiding out with Tanner , or gone round to scrounge a meal . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's not me that goes round swearing at one 's betters and pelting downstairs like a looney . ’ |
| 18 | Under rain that goes on drumming its rods and thickening |
| 19 | A rat that goes on screeching , |
| 20 | Not much , of course , because everything that goes away makes smaller our — fundament , do you say ? |
| 21 | This is all the apparatus that goes up to drive it . |
| 22 | Every one that goes down takes others with it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ For it is he that goes about to destroy me and my blood . ’ |
| 24 | But every day that goes by makes it less likely . ’ |
| 25 | Far better , it seemed to me , was the simple strategy of waiting for nature to come to you , rather than going clumsily to look for it . |
| 26 | those are the ones that going away tend to leave . |
| 27 | He had been out and was coming in , although the way he walked suggested that going out had not been a great success , and that not much awaited him at home . |
| 28 | They were led in Parliament by a handful of quite senior Ministers ready to resign rather than go on serving in an administration they accused of appeasement to Hitler and downright obstinacy towards rearmament for defence . |
| 29 | ( 3 ) Why did the universe start out with so nearly the critical rate of expansion that separates models that recollapse from those that go on expanding forever , so that even now , ten thousand million years later , it is still expanding at nearly the critical rate ? |
| 30 | The imperfections of our parents cause us to generate compensatory emotions that go on influencing us throughout life . |