Example sentences of "[noun sg] go the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , and the other story goes The angels go to Be |
| 2 | If the fight goes the distance , there might hardly be the thickness of a stamp between them unless Chris ups his recent workrate . |
| 3 | We refuse to accept the human and inevitable tragedy of aging , even in the case of contemporary art , which we condemn to an unwanted permanence , despite its attempt to go the way of all flesh . |
| 4 | Along with this imaginative , inspirational side of the mind goes the capacity — better developed in some than in others — for intuition . |
| 5 | On the BBC 's Standing Room Only programme at 6.50 tonight , Newbon discusses the chances of an English club going the way of French team Paris St Germain , who were bought by Chanel Plus last year . |
| 6 | Skiing a bit too fast … possibly slightly unfit — and ping went the strings of her ligaments |
| 7 | Ping went the lift bell at ground-floor level . |
| 8 | With two games remaining in Group One Scotland are out of contention to go the United States , but the Swiss look virtually certain to be one of the 24 nations involved in the finals . |
| 9 | It was drawn from a cask , a cork inserted in the top of the bottle which was placed in the corking machine , one pull on the lever and home went the cork . |
| 10 | Dom-peromp — stamp — derompompompedom , derom — stamp — perom — stamp went the music as we clattered round the loose floorboards . |
| 11 | Back and forth flew the shuttle , clackety clack went the treadles of the loom , up and down sluiced the heddles , and the cloth grew until she had sufficient yardage for a gown ; she plied the scissors , cut out a pattern , sewed the seams and hemmed the border , and she was nearly faint with pain from the cactus pricks festering in her hands and halfway up her arms . |
| 12 | One story going the rounds in Havana recently has Fidel visiting his barber . |
| 13 | Bang goes the diet |
| 14 | Pop goes the weasel . |
| 15 | Like pop goes the weasel . |
| 16 | Well that 's the original Pop goes the Weasel song . |
| 17 | ‘ You have to remember that with Tweed gone the post of Deputy Director becomes vacant . ’ |
| 18 | The results in table 3.4 were obtained for the test sentence : mary had a little lamb its fleece was white as snow and everywhere that mary went the lamb was sure to go |
| 19 | Down each evening go the indiscretions , the jealousies , the blunders and miscalculations . |
| 20 | Into Tommy 's holdall went the binoculars-camera and the hair curler ( one never knew ) , and I had the cigarette lighter-camera as always in my pocket . |
| 21 | Pant pant whine whine went the noise . |
| 22 | I hope the drivel which appeared in the Sunday Times was not the result of a Vatican briefing , because it would be a terrible thing if the Holy See went the way of Westminster and Liverpool . |
| 23 | Marty Feldman does anyone remember Marty Feldman when one eye went this way and one eye went the other ? that you know watching this happen . |
| 24 | Talk of more profit upgradings and lucrative sales of bits and pieces of Ward White Group went the rounds . |
| 25 | With the academic thirst for knowledge goes the academic 's well-publicized thirst for alcoholic refreshment . |
| 26 | This order was maintained as the runners came past the stands and started to make their way along the back stretch , and with half a mile to go the field was tightly bunched . |
| 27 | Coupled with her hope that the war may end in a stalemate goes the hope that she may never be obliged to become a belligerent nation . |
| 28 | You passed up the chance to go the pit then ? |
| 29 | Jokes about their own plight and sarcasms aimed at ‘ Them ’ at the top went the rounds as the standard of living fell steadily throughout Romania in the 1980s . |
| 30 | The barman took the dive for cover as half the bar-counter went the way of all flesh , only faster . |