Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] go [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Haverford got going again with the cream jug .
2 Why did n't they last when Edward tried to go further , she wondered ?
3 Of all the Warsaw Pact countries , officials in Hungary appeared to go furthest in declaring readiness to recognize Lithuania 's independence .
4 By Lancaster Road standards , the Ryans had gone too far up in the world , making them aliens .
5 But Bella had gone ahead , all the same , and sent for it from a catalogue .
6 True to his brother 's word , David had gone straight for the fish cakes .
7 I know like , anyway but like , Scott had gone home said to his mum like , is his mum is n't , going what 's that on your neck ?
8 Sartre and de Beauvoir had to go elsewhere after the Liberation .
9 Gordon Mahoney had gone home about an hour ago .
10 When Miss Poraway had mentioned a Tupperware party Mrs Stead-Carter had gone much further than she 'd ever gone before .
11 Battle ‘ You ca n't be disappointed by a run like that , ’ said the jockey after User Friendly 's head-to-head battle with Subotica had gone so narrowly the wrong way for her army of fans .
12 It was a sign that Ceauşescu intended to go much further than Dej in rehabilitating the Romanian past and distancing the Communist regime from the original Soviet model , at least so far as public presentation went .
13 Perhaps Friday wanted to go home too .
14 Lindsay had gone outside with his wife .
15 In reflecting on the day , after Joy and Alan had gone home , I was surprised that it had seemed so unfrightening .
16 Before I had a chance to leave my own people and find out exactly how Anwar had gone insanely mad , Eva came over to me .
17 It was after nine-thirty when we finished , because I remember that Mrs Reynolds had gone home and I washed up the cups myself . ’
18 Pickerage had gone straight to bed when he got back , and that day , Monday , had been something less than his dottily exuberant self .
19 Mary and Reggie had gone away for the weekend , and would not be back until evening .
20 From Deuteronomy 1:19–25 it seems plain that Moses intended to go straight on into the promised land at this point ; it was the people 's suggestion that they should send spies ahead .
21 There was half a chance of an equaliser when Magilton got going again to send Penney racing clear , but by then Grimsby had the points in their net .
22 Wall Street seemed to go completely mad this afternoon ! ’
23 My standing with Harold Wilson began to go downhill in the 1970s , not on personal grounds but because of what might be described as political differences .
24 The Stranglers started going downhill when they took to releasing piss-poor cover versions as singles .
25 NATO decided to go ahead with the cruise missiles before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and against a background of Soviet-American agreement in the Salt 11 talks on strategic weapons .
26 Any money Lily gave went straight into their mouths and on to their backs .
27 Yesterday 's inquest was told that Legionella bacteria had been found in the heart unit 's hot water system after Mrs Ormerod had gone home .
28 The Copleys had gone upstairs to take their afternoon rest and for a moment she wondered whether to tell them to lock their bedroom door .
29 Now Malekith had gone too far .
30 Donald McLaggan had gone too far with Flora Stewart , swinging so wildly that the girl flung against the smaller table and fell onto it with her hair in the great bowl of broth .
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