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

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31 The Midlands went flatly past , a biscuit factory , a metal box company , fields , hedges , ditches , pleasant and unremarkable .
32 THE best-laid schemes of Seve Ballesteros went sadly awry in the first round of the Turespana Masters here yesterday .
33 She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said .
34 ’ And off Paddy went once more into his professional mumble .
35 Peter Robinson went so far as to say that until late 1974 ‘ there was no party ’ .
36 But it was shrewd of Joseph to go temporarily AWOL , absent-without-leave , for he would have been an undoubted target for the flak being hurled by an angry Kinnear .
37 And here , ICMS goes even further than prevention ; it encourages growers to take positive action to enhance the environment by , for example , establishing wildlife strips to harbour natural predators or creating wildlife ponds to encourage wildlife diversity .
38 ‘ Uncle Camillo goes there now .
39 I think the key to it has been in the past that if we can establish a platform with the front five and get our back row really involved with the support play that they can produce , Bath going backwards certainly do n't look as strong as when they are coming at us .
40 The excitable Delhi poet Mutahhar of Kara went even further : ‘ The moment I entered this blessed building , ’ he writes , ‘ I saw a soul-animating courtyard as wide as the plain of the world .
41 I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time .
42 The sailor opened a door and Daniel went quickly inside .
43 Bergson went so far as to describe intelligence , or the intellect , as being , and I quote , ‘ characterised by a natural inability to comprehend life . ’
44 Tolstoy went so far as to say that " He who was not alive in the Russia of 1856 does not know what life is " .
45 Liverpool went further ahead five minutes before the interval with a penalty from Jan Molby , but their half-time advantage flattered them .
46 Pony went well today , ’ he might say as they dismounted .
47 Adam went utterly still , staring at her as if time had stopped .
48 During his second and more important period as foreign secretary in 1822 – 27 Canning went considerably further in this direction .
49 Archbishop Fisher went so far as to tell him that he was a possible future Archbishop of Canterbury .
50 Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey .
51 Carter made greater use of it than most but Reagan went even further .
52 The scene dealing with her adoration of Christ went no further than ‘ a few motions of the lips ’ — St Theresa 's moment of ecstasy was rendered by the image of Christ 's hand closing over hers .
53 Trotsky went so far as to call the agreement ‘ an ecclesiastical NEP ’ , implying a similar tolerance to that meted out to ‘ kulaks ’ or to Nepmen , but this was a superficial and short-sighted judgement redolent with propaganda .
54 Markey went even further ; instead of stopping the searchers in their tracks , she had the subjects talk or think aloud throughout the search .
55 Taylor went too far , says Lineker
56 Isabel went even more rigid .
57 And Glentoran went even closer when Gary Smyth hit the inside of the post after Keenan had fumbled a Hillis cross .
58 In Law , Legislation and Liberty Hayek went even further and suggested that , since legislation proper ‘ should not be governed by interests but by opinion ’ , what is required ‘ is an assembly of men and women elected at a relatively mature age for fairly long periods , such as fifteen years ’ .
59 In 1757 Postlethwayt went so far as to argue that the national debt had had the effect of transferring property to the " money-mongers " at such a pace that , " Since our debts have taken place , not near one tenth of the land of England is possessed by the posterity or heirs of those who possessed it at the Revolution . "
60 Taking up residence in Colchester went very well — though I was a bit surprised to find that the ‘ de-skilling ’ process mentioned by the resettlement officer had indeed affected me to some extent .
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