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

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1 Ali failed to go the route for the first time in his career .
2 Then he let go the bow line , jumped on board , and ran aft to the cockpit .
3 He let go the clutch , lifted the front wheel and drove at the far bank , sand-spit dead ahead .
4 He still felt the movement of the van and the racing motion of the imagined mowing as , in his turbulent mind 's eye that would not release its trapped images , he let go the clutch on the handle and the motor mower leapt and jolted into movement .
5 She let go the button .
6 It was years since he 'd been there , but there had been a time when he 'd gone every week , sometimes twice .
7 Last night he 'd gone a work .
8 we enjoyed walking home , I thought he 'd gone a bingo , that 's funny were n't you going home baby sitting .
9 And knowing he 'd gone a bit too far , and glad enough , now his fright and anger were fading , to have faced down Lachlan 's temper and Farquhar 's knife unharmed , Duncan Rua was satisfied to grin back , and turn aside to work the ship .
10 Cos nowadays if you if you did something like that folk would say you 'd gone a bit funny .
11 Heard she 'd gone a bit funny . ’
12 I thought you 'd gone a bit shitty .
13 and digging stuff out of there then after he 'd gone the whole with all the dairy round it it was sprouting with er .
14 It had made for a lively few hours but now that they 'd gone the place seemed oddly , unnaturally quiet again .
15 all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this
16 ‘ Yous all too late fer lunch , dat finished gone an hour ago , ’ she informed them in no uncertain terms .
17 Would n't miss a meetin' , an' one day she started goin' a bit funny .
18 I decided to go the house a few gardens away where a few pitiful meows brings some food from the woman .
19 But things started going a bit wrong before she could start .
20 This time Damien Cronin kept going a move that seemed about to die and Hastings just made the line near the corner .
21 Yes , I did go a bit towards the window and had a quick glance round .
22 ‘ Well , whereas the rest of the passengers were basically gearing up to tear my girlfriend and me to bits if we continued to go the way we were going — you get a kind of cabin fever on these flights between Australia and England — this Christian and his wife decided to adopt us , I guess as a kind of test for themselves .
23 We moved it once and apparently it had to go a zoo after that cos when we moved it back it was about twelve foot long , and then of course it g grew even larger than that .
24 He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that .
25 I 'm sorry he had to go the way he did , but it was always going to happen , the sort of man he was .
26 Poor Keith had to go to this , he had to go the station every day on his bike
27 She was left to bring up a family she had to go the banks for money the banks were all and they refused her money to keep the farm going .
28 Warning that workers at the mine could suffer from silicosis and that dust from the mine could have a devastating effect on the local soil chemistry , Mr Wilson said it was cheaper to manufacture andalusite artificially , and wondered why Navan Resources wished to go the expense of mining it : ‘ To make it in any way economically feasible to mine this , it would have to represent over 30 per cent of the total of the rock formation of the mountain and this means that almost one third of your mountain would disappear ’ .
29 The girls had come out of surgery ‘ looking like they had gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ .
30 He was straining hard now , and still nothing was happening ; everything had gone a couple of shades darker , and the roaring in his ears drowned out everything else .
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