Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] go [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , leafing through the hundreds of cards from well-wishers , Lucy , 69 , brushed off her bravery : ‘ My legs have gone and I have got to get on with it . ’ |
| 2 | The guards have gone and all the doors are jammed open . |
| 3 | Once again it brings me in to the point where er double glazers have to go and measure up then do their , I know they 've got lovely lap tops I 've seen them now with their lap top comp their little samples there special catches here . |
| 4 | When you get here today you find that the madhouses have gone or are going . |
| 5 | Many of those hedgerows have gone but those forgotten flavours can be recaptured in your own garden . |
| 6 | Steel-making in the west Midlands has ceased and not only have many of the traditional coal-mining areas declined but the winding gear , pit-head buildings and tramways have gone and even tips have been levelled and landscaped . |
| 7 | At group level , the days have gone when three prisoners per group ( one from the West , the East and a non-aligned country ) were obligatory . |
| 8 | Despite the party , Jones insists it 's no big deal : ‘ The days have gone where we are stuck on the ceiling by a result like this . |
| 9 | While S & N has announced itself ‘ perfectly happy ’ with the way things have gone since the switch and said it had been successful , some observers are convinced that operating costs have increased substantially and cite political rather than cost or environmental reasons behind the decision . |
| 10 | Perhaps because they were the first in the field , or more probably for deeply rooted socio-political reasons , the classicists have never been seriously challenged — theories have come and theories have gone but the belief in the control function of management has remained — even more so at the level of practice than of theory , although at that level , some insights can be gained . |
| 11 | Today the trees have gone but the lead cast of the Stephen Tomlin sculpture of her head stares out from the garden towards the marshes . |
| 12 | The old mills and the Roman fortifications have gone but the bridges , the stories and the tranquillity still remain . |
| 13 | Thankfully , the days-of big cork gazettes have gone and these have been replaced by various slim shaped sliders which offer the pike less resistance . |
| 14 | ‘ It is very important that players do go and play for their country , but we have n't got it right here , ’ said Francis . |
| 15 | The joints have gone and this wanted doing but it would of been extortionate she said , you know , to get it done |
| 16 | The old crowd controls at football matches have gone as working men increasingly stay at home to watch sport , leaving the stadium — or the unseated ‘ ends ’ at least — as an arena for the young . |
| 17 | Mr. Ashworth and Mr. McGregor point also to the extravagant lengths , as they would put it , to which some of the United States decisions have gone and to the dangers of conflict between the mother and her child , with the child suing for damages for injuries allegedly caused by the negligence of the mother before the child 's birth . |
| 18 | The ships have gone and so has the Black Rat , but the opportunist Brown Rat remains a threat ashore . |
| 19 | Visit Malham at mid-day on a sunny Bank Holiday and it will be " fair thranged wi' folk " , yet wait until evening when the charabancs have gone and the cars have motored their way back downdale , and Malham becomes again a quiet little place , the only noise coming from the Hikers ' Bar of the Buck Inn where legions of Pennine Way pilgrims have slaked their thirst ; or from the bar of the Listers Arms where Dalesfolk have been coming for years to taste the best steaks in the Dales . |
| 20 | But when the present tourists have gone and we have seen the last of Gary Freeman and Duane Mann , Esene Faimalo and Francis Leota there will be a sense of regret . |
| 21 | Of muscles due to overexertion , after the most acute symptoms have gone or when there is worse ( < ) initial motion and better ( > ) from continued motion with better ( > ) heat . |
| 22 | All right I 'll put y Oh by the way the tickets have gone those tickets have gone but you can get them on the door at the Mapley Plain Social Club this Wednesday in Nottingham and you can see the Ivy League Alf , Berry and Heather Nixon , Night Ride organist and drummer and the compere Peter Lawrie six quid the tickets are admission at eight o'clock this Wednesday an all star show at the Mapley Plain Social Club in Nottingham . |
| 23 | Under the Prime Minister 's leadership , in the last 12 months alone more than 800,000 jobs have gone and during that period the number of people in employment in Britain has gone down by 800,000 . |