Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] go [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , at the critical moment at least one of the mines failed to go off .
2 I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it .
3 You Queenie Warley mentioned earlier that the number of personnel has gone up by what , a hundred per cent ?
4 Now the sides of the hold and the , the chains used go down , they did n't have wires they had chains go down and with a big ring on the top and then when you 'd the door out , knock the pin out and the door would drop down the mud and cos the ship would come up because she got two side tanks on er a tank each side to bring the ship out of the water .
5 The rental on council houses has gone up quite considerably , people are worried about that .
6 Mintel the consumer trend watchers claim that consumer spending on DIY and garden products has gone up by 96 per cent between 1983 and 1989 ; while spending on furniture and furnishings has increased by 52 per cent in the same period .
7 Yeah probably so yeah , and at this time of year they 're fetching so ridiculous in low money anyway , probably better off in the summer when the lads want to go out , out and about , well they 're not bothered now nobody wants to go anywhere do they ?
8 So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ?
9 The couples frequently face each other looking into each other 's faces and appear to crouch over their feet slightly which emphasises the ‘ down to earth ’ quality as most steps appear to go down into and not out of the ground .
10 Burglary at homes has gone up by 23pc and fraud , shoplifting , and car crime are also rising rapidly .
11 It must have been terribly upsetting for you , ’ says Jeremy 's mouth , while his eyes say Go on , admit it , did n't you enjoy it , some of it ?
12 Stavrogin is a killer — or can be — but he does nothing : ‘ the light in his eyes seemed to go out . ’
13 And while goals for stood at 87 — almost double the previous season 's total , goals conceded went up by only five , to 63 .
14 His way with birds and animals seemed to go out to all flowers and plants , too .
15 As the bombs in the hangars started to go off they beat a hasty retreat across the field .
16 I sat in an armchair with a copy of Punch and pretended to read it , but my eyes kept going back to those lips and that tiny corner of pink tongue and I was in a turmoil .
17 Parties do go out , folks with cameras to film the birds .
18 I know the Chelsea players reacted but it is a passionate game and the tackles do go in . ’
19 Chris said , she said well she didnae mind going down for it .
20 The most telling accounts were to be seen in the local press whose journalists had gone along on routine reporting assignments and tried to come to terms with the decidedly un-pop star look of the performers on stage .
21 Lucinda , who had always been so obedient , speaking to her mother as if good manners had gone out of fashion ?
22 He said , ‘ The words have gone out of my mind . ’
23 under Labour waiting lists have gone up every time we 've had a Labour administration .
24 Every time we 've had a Conservative administration waiting lists have gone down .
25 there 's one in the floor and all the kids wanted to go out to see mummy and so anyway Neil had to sing or naff sing , hey hey it 's thinking day !
26 Pru motor premiums have gone up three times this year and house contents insurance rose by 20p in the £1 this July and further increases can not be ruled out .
27 Premiums have gone up an average 17 per cent this year .
28 The senior recruits have gone out with their visitors , before they return to pack ready for their departure to their trade training in the morning .
29 A lot of people in the business are watching it and the ratings have gone up although it is opposite Coronation Street .
30 On 21 July 1876 , accompanied by his friends Emmanuel Mohn and Knut Lykken , he attacked the mountain up the steep glacier later known as the Slingsbybrae , reaching the col under the final rock pillar ; there the Norwegians refused to go on , considering the peak inaccessible .
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