Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on a bit … ’ |
| 2 | Goes on a bit thick . |
| 3 | So you 've got the children tomorrow lunchtime , you 've got the band tomorrow evening , but the library exhibition goes on a bit longer ? |
| 4 | It goes on a lot better than Amy 's . |
| 5 | Huh , he 's a good , good lad , but he 's er he drinks rather a lot and suffers quite a lot from hangovers , he comes in dries up and goes |
| 6 | My staff were faced with untidy heaps of apparatus apparatus in equipment rooms , and received little or no help from the student representatives So and then it sort of flabbers on a bit saying they 're |
| 7 | This represents perhaps a quarter of the true figure . |
| 8 | Far from being a conclusion of the ‘ consumer-led ’ revolution beloved of propagandists , the change is the child of a retail revolution which , for the consumer , constitutes only a re-arrangement of his or her individual powerlessness . ’ |
| 9 | Mann tries to combine the desperation of their plight with a more lyrical look at Indian respect for struggle and death , all of which sits together a smidgeon uneasily until the final reel . |
| 10 | Thus , in the top tenth of pensioner income groups , social security contributes only a quarter of gross income . |
| 11 | The cut is therefore the most basic device of SFX , the one that knits together a variety of complicated elements into a unity of effect . |
| 12 | As far as most women are concerned the only enviable thing about a penis is the ability it confers on the owner to pee out of a coach window as it powers along a motorway when the bladder feels like bursting and the driver refuses to stop . |
| 13 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 14 | This sort of feeble whining goes down a treat with women like Alison . |
| 15 | It goes down a treat at family do 's . ) |
| 16 | It loops it goes down a bit . |
| 17 | if I may give you a word of advice , you may think it 's rude , but when Mr is asking questions try not to turn down towards him , if you try and face across the jury , that 's what carries the voice if you 're looking at them , if you turn to your left , a bit of your head goes down a bit , it 's only natural , you 're not as used to courts as Mr is , er , he , he , your , it , your voice smothers , it 's not a question of shouting it 's just looking in the right direction , yes Mr go on |
| 18 | Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else . |
| 19 | This goes down a lot better . |
| 20 | There 's a path goes down a slope . |
| 21 | This obviously represents only a proportion of criminal activity in Britain since a number of crimes remain undetected and a number of offenders are not convicted . |
| 22 | On the other hand , once estimated , the known user total still represents only a proportion of the total user population and , thus , a multiplier factor is needed , that is to say , a ratio of unknown to known heroin use , in order to determine the size of the total heroin user population ( Hartnoll et al. |
| 23 | Second , the greater profitability of restaurants and garages along an upgraded road should not be included , as this is simply a reflection of more journeys undertaken along this route and represents only a transfer of business from other establishments on less popular routes . |
| 24 | Wilson points out that the designer side represents only a fraction of the fashion industry 's £6.5 billion turnover . |
| 25 | The fundamental argument is again that human beings are still very ‘ basic ’ beings ; that is , they have evolved over millions of years and that what we call civilisation or culture represents only a fraction of human history . |
| 26 | To that extent , modernization represents only a potential for development , not necessarily an actual development ; indeed , form itself , in its stability , may challenge the continuum of lived experience ( Arato 1974 : 158 ; compare Giddens on routinization 1984 : 61 ) . |
| 27 | In the current financial year budgets what authorities would have spend in delivering services , not what the Welsh office consider they should spend , were two thousand six hundred and eighty eight million pounds and against that the next years settlement which we 're debating tonight , represents only a point six percent increase . |
| 28 | However it seems that the slowest time constant represents only a subset of the GC sites since we observe dissociation from some GC sites at rates closer to the faster species . |
| 29 | Today the inner enclosure should still be the climax of the fort , but the sight of it produces only a sensation of severe anticlimax . |
| 30 | The farmworker receives only a pittance in pay-off — perhaps £2,000 in redundancy pay — whereas the owner of the land may receive thousands of pounds for several years . |