Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] go a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I let go a lungful of air , slumped back against the parapet and lit another Capstan .
2 Yes , I did go a bit towards the window and had a quick glance round .
3 I 've gone a bit mad about cleaning as my mother 's coming to stay this summer .
4 Cos nowadays if you if you did something like that folk would say you 'd gone a bit funny .
5 I thought you 'd gone a bit shitty .
6 Heard she 'd gone a bit funny . ’
7 Would n't miss a meetin' , an' one day she started goin' a bit funny .
8 You 've gone a straight across there .
9 Again Clare wondered if she had gone a bit too far , speaking so negatively about Gran 's novels , and being so emphatically against the trust .
10 yeah , she maybe does , but I think she 's trying to , to try and promote the fact that aids patients are harmless , because a lot of aids patients are very isolated , people do n't want to know them , they think you can catch it through shaking hands , drinking out the same cup and all that , and I think she 's trying to prove that look I 'm alright , so should you be , but she does go a bit over the top
11 I 'd go a little bit further and say well it 'd be much more likely that husband and wife would be in the master bedroom with in the small bedroom , but as you say er the adults or anybody indeed in the flat is likely to be in the bedrooms at that time , but Sergeant you see went a bit further and said that at the briefing , somehow he got information that was likely to be in the master bedroom so I understand your evidence , you certainly did n't get that impression at the brief .
12 Humble clerks who have gone a bust on clothes for marriageable daughters are outraged but too timid to protest .
13 Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted
14 Yeah sh , only the last two years she 's gone a bit blind or otherwise she could do anything could n't she ?
15 We have learnt a lot from the Nicaraguan experience and as far as the woman question " is concerned , we hope to go a bit further .
16 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 .
17 ‘ I 'm afraid we 've gone a bit too soft , ’ she says with almost Blimpish fervour .
18 ‘ I 'm afraid we 've gone a bit too soft , ’ she says with almost Blimpish fervour .
19 Ten forty five so we 've gone a bit .
20 We have gone a goal down in our last four games , so there is no easy game at this stage .
21 We have gone a step further , even starting some nests off by taping on twigs and other suitable material to the boxes . ’
22 I , this one 's gone a bit strange , look at that , how you doing now , Kevin ?
23 Erm when it 's hot , they do go a bit peculiar in pillows , they go stained do n't they ?
24 see like , now they 've gone a bit quieter now , have you noticed ?
25 Alison his nose as it was around there , they 've gone a bit bumpy .
26 They 've gone a lot of funny ways , the Cauldhames and their associates by marriage , but to the best of my knowledge a gun has never crossed one off .
27 The girls had come out of surgery ‘ looking like they had gone a couple of rounds with Frank Bruno ’ .
28 At the Microsoft Conference in March 1991 , C-Cube showed they had gone a step further .
29 No , they have gone a bit cool towards her .
30 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
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