Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] go [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the mail van pulled up outside , the hum of talk about them went silent . |
| 2 | A man sits in his car at the traffic-lights , waiting for them to go green . |
| 3 | Yet there is striking evidence that carts and wagons had been much improved , and that bridges were being built in many parts to make it possible for them to go longer distances . |
| 4 | Squigs are unpredictable and in many way the best thing that can happen is for them to go wild once they are near the enemy . |
| 5 | In any case , there was not enough time left for me to go that way to look for him . |
| 6 | If I live , I will redeem all my pledges , and if I die , I will answer for their going unredeemed in the judgement . ’ |
| 7 | It 's a matter of having spares for when any of them go lame , or are needed for work on the farm . |
| 8 | A lot of them went red . |
| 9 | Maybe they 're still there — a great heap of them going rusty and covered in dust and cobwebs . |
| 10 | mail order firms ( one of which went bust as a result ) and the International Feminist Book Fair were affected too , as lesbian and gay literature was seized en masse . |
| 11 | This frequency-multiplied signal is input to an m-state counter/decoder which has , each of which goes HIGH in sequence ( Fig. 7.10 ) . |
| 12 | And we , we normally have members go , we 've had as many as five one year , or was it six , erm , not always that many I think , was it three of you went last year , I think it was three was n't it ? |
| 13 | And be careful about smaller companies which promise to get an engineer to your computer by the next day of something goes wrong . |
| 14 | Aerotow problems usually arise because the pilot ignores the possibility of something going wrong and is caught by surprise . |
| 15 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 16 | We 've all had the unnerving experience of something going wrong when thirty people are sitting waiting for us to start . |
| 17 | The greater the complexity of systems , the more danger of something going wrong , and the less chance individual will has of operating on the systems for good . |
| 18 | Mark the centre of it go all the way round with that . |
| 19 | What was the object , I know we discussed it at great length , but what was the object of it going that way in the first place ? |
| 20 | Though the vessel does not have an engine or a conventional rudder , it has been equipped with a thruster unit to give some manoeuvrability in the rare event of it going adrift from its location about two miles from the Alba platform . |
| 21 | we go on hoping and fighting and imagining , despite whatever goes wrong with anybody but the Tory Party is diverting itself with internal feuds and in focusing attention on whether Mr Major will remain Prime Minister or not and this is presumably so that they may ignore the real issues of how to the get the country onto some shared basis of consensus , trust and pragmatic politics which would give our society a chance of facing up to questions of economics , politics , pollution and living together in community in the sort of world we 've actually got . |
| 22 | As the errors remain instructive , it is worth spending a little time considering what went wrong . |
| 23 | Hull supporters , who have never seen their side successful at Wembley , have a list of what went wrong on each occasion . |
| 24 | Trent regional medical officer Professor Richard Alderslade said the health authority was determined to get to the bottom of what went wrong and to learn the lessons from it . |
| 25 | They need to know that they can give you your professional , their professional attention they will not make it compulsively , the majority party of what went wrong this is you were no longer the majority party . |
| 26 | Perhaps now she might get an idea of what went wrong . |
| 27 | It will get to the bottom of what went wrong . ’ |
| 28 | 6 years on , he 's asking the High Court to solve the puzzle of what went wrong . |
| 29 | That way , it would seem like someone gone mad — everyone would be looking at the sniper , no-one would be looking for a motive . |
| 30 | I look just like you gone wrong ! |