Example sentences of "[art] [noun] go [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course the trouble with boats on a rising tide is that when the tide goes out a lot of those boats are left high and dry . |
| 2 | Today it was closed but the delightfully cold ice-cream from the small shop at the entrance went down a treat . |
| 3 | With luck ‘ Mummy ’ might disbelieve the dire tale , especially if the bruise went down a little before she saw it . |
| 4 | Every time the car went round a corner you had to turn the whole radio round to face a different way That was the only way you could get half-decent reception . |
| 5 | Watkins particularly noted notches where the ley went over a hilltop . |
| 6 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 7 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 8 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 9 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The arch-rivals go back a long way . |
| 12 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 13 | A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ . |
| 14 | Lessons on what it 's like to be a European went down a treat with the pupils of a rural Ulster primary school last week . |
| 15 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 16 | There 's a path goes down a slope . |
| 17 | He said nothing more , and his silence played across her taut nerves like a fingernail going down a blackboard . |