Example sentences of "[noun sg] go [adv prt] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussion of the effects of changes in the stock of money goes back hundreds of years . |
| 2 | Great rift goes back 500 years |
| 3 | The marvel of the Massinghams was that a lineage going back five hundred years could have produced so many generations of amiable nonentities . |
| 4 | This company was founded in 1981 by William Jackson and John Turner in Kidderminster , a town in the UK with a tradition of carpet-making going back hundreds of years . |
| 5 | Flat owners face losing their homes after being landed with a bill for ground rent going back fifteen years . |
| 6 | Such effort rewarded Nick Baglin , whose coolness earned him several crucial points in his final against Robinson , the Yorkshireman going down 6–3 , 6–4 , a match for which both players received a standing ovation . |
| 7 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 8 | Bristol 's new fly-half Andy May missed five penalties as his side went down 16-6 to Northampton . |
| 9 | If the spin is " up " the electron goes off one way , if it is " down " the electron goes off the other way , as in the figure . |
| 10 | Yet its origin goes back hundreds of years , to the days when the women camp followers of the mighty Persian armies slept in their scarlet silk tents . |
| 11 | What you must never forget is that I am not and never have been an ethnic of any description , and that I have never found any evidence that justifies any cretinous claim by you , or by any of your co-morons in the sewers of lofty racist Neanderthal , that Eurocentrism warrants any positive attention from those like myself who inherit — and consciously — a civilised tradition and philosophy going back millions of years . |
| 12 | So in reality our S S A is going up about one and a half percent , and as you know our budget has gone up about one and a half percent , so why is the council tax going up six point three percent ? |
| 13 | Today 's shares : Abbey National down four to two two three point five , British Aerospace up four to five hundred and thirty nine , British Airways up two at a hundred and thirty nine , British Gas down five to two one eight , British Telecom went down four point five , ending the day at two hundred and seventy point five , the Goodhead Publishing Group went down two to fifty six , Metalbox were up thirty seven to one one two five , Morland Brewers down three at two six five , Oxford Instruments remained at two thirty , while Thames Water stayed at two hundred and twenty eight and T S B were up nought point five at a hundred and thirty eight . |
| 14 | His head is cocked slightly to one side , as if to reduce his height to Shirley Esplin 's level , and a slight sympathetic smile goes up one side of his face . |
| 15 | A mother 's agony goes on 20 years after her son 's death |
| 16 | Is that lorry going out ten tonne short today then ? |
| 17 | Ireland 's World bronze medallist went down 8–7 in a titanic battle with Russia 's Albert Pekov in their first round clash . |
| 18 | This meant that an older social critique , whose pedigree went back hundreds of years , was expanded to take account of juvenile employment in such a manner as to make the critique more subtle , at least in the sense that some reformers began to suggest that the combination of juvenile psychology , conditions of labour and industrial training was influential far beyond the workplace and on a scale previously unrecognized . |
| 19 | Pre-tax revenue rose by 13.8 per cent to £14.2 million , while earnings per share went up 12.8 per cent to 1.59p , from 1.41p . |
| 20 | The bond between man and dog goes back ten thousand years . |
| 21 | Our death rate went down seventy-five per cent in one week ! |
| 22 | Since then , pay has on average gone up 30 per cent in real terms — and now we really earn it , too . |
| 23 | Then I was working and my sister Mary started work and my father went out one night and he came back knocked the door and he was drunk as per usual . |
| 24 | Amongst the major shares , Abbey National are down 1 at 212 , and as I 've just mentioned , British Aerospace went down 12 to 541 , British Airways were down 2 at 158 , British Gas were down 2 at 217 , British Steel down 2 at 119 , British Telecom down 9 at 276 , Rolls Royce down 5 to 175 and T S B down 2 at 119 . |
| 25 | So his foot went down two steps , and sure enough down came the wardrobe onto his toe and did n't do any damage and then just bounced to the next step down . |
| 26 | The door of the back kitchen went down two steps and then there was a chimney corner with shaped stonework , which I think would have had a wooden seat long ago . |
| 27 | So erm mum went down one day and he was there and she said he were with my sister 's boy , they were both sleeping rough . |
| 28 | In North-East Division went down 24–10 their tries coming from scrum half Gary Spence and Ron Stock , full back Roy Myers adding a conversion . |
| 29 | Amongst the major shares , Abbey National were up 5 to 184 ; British Aerospace down 6 at 518 ; British Airways down 2 at 195 ; B P up 1 to 305 ; British Gas went up 4 to 191 ; British steel were up 2 at 138 ; British Telecom , they were up 5 to 250 ; Rolls Royce , up 2 to 200 and T S B they were up 1 at 126 . |
| 30 | Today 's share prices : Abbey National down two at two two eight , British Aerospace down twenty two at five three seven , British Airways down three at a hundred and forty one , British Gas went down four point five at two two seven point five , British Telecom down six point five at two hundred and eighty four , Goodhead Publishing Group stayed at sixty , Metalbox down fifty to one O O seven five , Morland Brewers unchanged at two hundred and seventy , Oxford Instruments went down four to two three three , Thames Water was down five at two two nine and the Trustee Savings Bank went down one to a hundred and thirty seven . |