Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We planned to go full belt , we planned for 1989 to be either win or retire . |
| 2 | Then I asked to go straight back . |
| 3 | You got to go this Sunday ? |
| 4 | As scientist he adopted a certain method of explaining things ; as philosopher he tried to go one step further , he tried to justify his scientific methodology with arguments intended to prove that the things he did not need in his explanations — objective colours , sounds , and so on — did not exist . |
| 5 | And so e with that the the decline of the flats really erm seemed to go that way . |
| 6 | They seemed to go some way towards encapsulating the challenges that the notion of a shift of power to students holds for those immediately Involved . |
| 7 | However , before she 'd gone many yards she recollected herself and turned to the bystanders . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd say we 'd gone two miles , ’ Stephen said . |
| 9 | If you 'd gone that way . |
| 10 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 11 | But , if I 'd gone next Thursday there 'd be e English , and then it 'd be a a job for them if they |
| 12 | Cos I think they 'd gone some time ago . |
| 13 | ‘ Even though I looked as though I 'd gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson ? ’ |
| 14 | Georgiades began to go one way round the gallery , his men the other . |
| 15 | It was n't at all what Luce had expected , and , seeing her puzzled frown , he said hastily , apologetically , ‘ I hope you do not mind using the rear entrance , but I needed to go this way to get to my next appointment . ’ |
| 16 | Half of the way through the book when things started to go wrong Ralph realised that Piggy did have some valuable points . |
| 17 | Inroads has had quality assurance systems in place for several years and decided to go one step further by introducing its new teamwork scheme . |
| 18 | I want you to put across what you 're gon na do and and ask a question and then tell us why you chose to go that route . |
| 19 | But it 's no way , I mean it was a really wet morning at quarter to seven , it had been raining , and he was right behind a lorry , and he , he , the lorry went to go one way and the he did n't go back because he knew he was going one way and the guy was going the other , he just started to go round to go to the left and bike was just there , he had no way of seeing him or he . |
| 20 | They kept going all day and most of the night , passing the cathedral city of Melchester and reaching open land . |
| 21 | When Wilson was obliged to rest on the stairs , they both begged her not to continue and when she insisted went either side of her , helping her along . |
| 22 | The two sides engaged in talks on Jan. 25 , which appeared to go some way towards healing any rift caused by the referendum . |
| 23 | See , I did go last week |
| 24 | The Boards ' lines of defence against this — replacement costs were hypothetical and difficult to estimate , tax complications might follow — read like a weary defence of the status quo , but the Ministry did in the end accept that their creation of special ad hoc depreciation reserves did go some way to meeting the point . |
| 25 | ‘ If Selwyn intends to go to the Colonel 's this afternoon , I could say I had to go that way myself and offer him a lift on the motorbike . ’ |
| 26 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 27 | but it was it was cos you had you know , you had to go that week kind of thing . |
| 28 | But neither man could entirely ignore North 's fevered memoranda , insisting that without the awful procession of weapons shipments the hostages would die ; and both men , while they were in office , had to go each morning to a president who would ask them what they were doing and importune them to try harder . |
| 29 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 30 | I was glad that I was n't one of those Portuguese or Italians who only had to go three hours without shaving for there to be a blue carpet on their chin . |