Example sentences of "[noun sg] go [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 mm , cos listen to what I mean , Ollie goes , I was sitting next to Ollie yeah and she looks at my thingy , yeah , and she goes that 's what , you 've missed out three , so I sat there writing all the nec numbers , yeah , and miss goes the other table and I 'm like oh come on Carla hurry up and do the numbers inside , and I missed , I just could n't , I could n't catch up
2 Although she was penniless , she managed to get back to England : Margery never had much difficulty in finding people who would give her money to go a long , long way away .
3 This decision goes a long way towards demonstrating the untenability of the marital-rape exemption in modern times .
4 WHATEVER YOU 'RE PLANNING TO BUY YOUR MONEY GOES A LONG WAY WITH ABBEY NATIONAL
5 ‘ He 's not the first striker to go a few games without scoring , ’ Alex Smith , the Aberdeen manager , said .
6 The further out from York the new settlement goes the less self contained it will be , the more the tendency will be for travel into the city , which is the main service centre to be car based .
7 Bourdieu goes a long way to remedying this defect in his treatment of actual practices in his structure ( fields ) .
8 A little amiability goes a long way , it would seem , and many of those present felt that Reebok was the unluckiest loser of the night in this category .
9 You may find it useful actually to write similar sentences or even your introductory chat on your question list to remind you if your mind goes a blank and to help you see the shape of the interview you are planning .
10 The interpretation of ‘ mind ’ as information processing with a self-monitoring facility called consciousness goes a long way towards resolving the problem of body — mind interaction which Popper and Eccles ( 1978 ) have recently revived .
11 There seems to be a lot of blood , but , you know , a little blood goes a long way .
12 It is hoped that the following study goes a small way towards describing their experiences and situation , as well as highlighting what the inclusion of disabled professionals reveals about the orthodox professional/client relationship .
13 David , 29 , said he had lost control when he swerved to miss a car going the wrong way round a roundabout .
14 It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size .
15 Ping went the little bell , the way some of them do .
16 Ping went the little bell .
17 I was doing quite well in the quiz up to that point , but my mind went a total blank on that one .
18 So out of sight and out of mind go the innocent wooden box and its equally innocent contents .
19 With this sense of a specialized alternative went a certain set of alternative moral and social attitudes , much more open and relaxed ( ‘ bohemian ’ ) than the norms of their class .
20 I think very often the influence goes the other way .
21 Traditionally , I always feel that the influence goes the other way .
22 Thus the Act goes a long way in smoothing the path of the prosecutor .
23 As the hon. Gentleman knows , the Bill in question goes a good deal wider than just the matters that he has been addressing .
24 In galleries across the city , needles were passed indiscriminately from arm to arm , and along with each hit went the deadly virus .
25 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread says the Old Testament ; salvation through hard work go the Protestant ethic and the rigidities of the New Right ; labour power , how nature is tamed and society transformed , argues Marxism .
26 Liberal Theology went the same way , though it substituted the categories of Ritschl 's system for those of Hegel 's .
27 And with the hardship and suffering went a slow but real decline in Egypt .
28 Nearly all the readings of the printed version are either musically superior to those in the theatre score , or result from octave transposition — necessary at one point to avoid an unplayable bottom B' B♭ occasioned by downward transposition from G to F. ( A change would have been unnecessary had the transposition gone the other way . )
29 Along with this rapprochement went a corresponding attack on the fundamentalist tenets of nonconformist morality .
30 She was on foot going the other way , so I opened the gate for her .
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