Example sentences of "goes [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In the event , Burnell goes as a dependable foot soldier and Wright as a tight-head who proved his versatility by scrummaging so solidly at loose-head against Jeff Probyn .
2 Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio .
3 She is resting her garlanded head on the fingertips of a red-gloved hand , inserting the large , crystal-clear dildo with the other , her crimson mouth parted and blue-mascara 'd eyes half-shut in rapturous delight as the devoted Koons goes about his business .
4 MI6 is still controlled by the Foreign Office but the Foreign Secretary neither admits to this publicly nor asks any questions about how MI6 goes about its daily business .
5 The head who goes about the job with tremendous enthusiasm and courtesy is likely to generate these attributes in other members of staff .
6 In general , we seem to be pleased with the way it goes about its work , and many like to feel that we can contribute ideas as well as money .
7 A shadow , as the name implies , is someone who follows another person about all day as he goes about his normal work .
8 With their many variants and subdivisions they provide a wonderfully expressive earful for the alert feline as it goes about its business .
9 In addition to the familiar tail-wagging of a cat in a conflict , there are a number of other tail-signals that indicate the changing moods of the pet feline as it goes about its business .
10 Norman , whose scintillating final round wiped out a five-shot deficit , added : ‘ He is great to play with because he goes about his business in his own way .
11 To get the best out of the situation both sides must try to understand how the other man goes about his work , what his problems are and how you can best communicate with him to your own advantage .
12 She goes about a bit — English women are a bit different from Canadians , you know , Hank . ’
13 I take Eubank to win in four if he goes about the task like a true champion .
14 I 'M HERE , BOSS : Bryan 's assistant Julia goes about her work yesterday
15 The West Indian family values education , but the way it goes about it makes it impossible for the kids .
16 The test of a skill description is : does it indicate how an individual goes about a task , does it allow for individual differences such as those between a highly skilled operator and a mediocre one ?
17 So when expansion plans were announced several years ago , notwithstanding the restraint with which the library goes about its business , there was some cause for alarm .
18 The association 's chief aim is to ‘ improve the professionalism of the security industry ’ , and it goes about this in a number of ways .
19 But beyond all this , Malham goes about its business of being a living Dales village , with its farms and farmers , its village hall and little shops , very much in the way it has always done .
20 From now on , as he goes about his nocturnal perambulations , he leaves a smelly trail behind him .
21 Things are pretty bad in Britain , Howard soon discovers , as he goes about questioning government officials .
22 The anthropologist who goes about things in this hard way ought not to fall into the error of supposing that kinship is " a thing in itself " .
23 During its setup , it detects any sound drivers you have installed — you need Windows 3.1 or better to run it and 286 users will , I 'm afraid , miss out on all of this , since you need a 386sx or better in order to run Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode — so that when Johnny goes about his business you hear his grunts and groans the screech of seagulls , the lapping of the waves and so on .
24 And John mentioned the sleazy way that this Tory government goes about things .
25 Some of its members undergo a change of attitude as the team goes about its ordinary work .
26 There is just one observation I wish to make to the Committee this afternoon and it actually goes about the whole issue of the planning aspect of what 's gone on .
27 The advantage of that would be that if the private sector does have things to offer in the way of better labour practices , better marketing ideas , then these will be copied by the B R system and in Sweden it 's quite evident that although very few franchises have gone to the private sector , it has had a quite drastic effect on the way in which the state railway goes about its business .
28 Where the nuclear scientist in Seven Days to Noon is shot , and the engineer in The Sound Barrier ends the film a shattered man , the scientist in The Net is rescued from danger and goes off home to resolve his marital problems .
29 The mathematical probability of any family producing a chess Grandmaster was thought to be relatively low ; the mathematical probability of producing three in a row goes off the chart .
30 International : Michelin goes off the boil
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