Example sentences of "[pron] go [adv prt] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | er if I go back one stage to the E E C and talk about the common agricultural policy . |
2 | ‘ I think that friendship can be defined by its longevity and Peter McKay and I go back 25 years . |
3 | I just bi I went outside , I mean , I was gon na go outside five minutes before and not notice anything , and I went out five minutes later and I heard this water running . |
4 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
5 | And I went down one day . |
6 | I went down one way up the other and |
7 | And so I went back two months after . |
8 | I went back twelve times , but soon after my twelfth visit there was another terrible storm . |
9 | I went along one night at 6 p.m. precisely , to be turned away by the dragon because ‘ there is no surgery to-night , as no patients have come ’ . |
10 | For a brief spell I became a Troop Leader , which I enjoyed because the Troop Leader carried the flag , but unlike " Sister Anna " ( who also carried a banner in the song which I was to learn much later ) I had a handsome leather pouch which went over one shoulder . |
11 | Well you , you got on the cranes down there , you go up fifty feet and then you had to go up another fifty feet to your top of your jib . |
12 | So , if you go on thirty days unfortunately we we 'll enforce that . |
13 | I agree with what you 're saying , but we should also look at what we do , for instance David when you go out you virtually never divert your telephone , everytime you go out ten minutes later I get up and go and divert your phone for you , if we get into the habit of diverting our phones then we we would n't have that problem . |
14 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
15 | After she went out one afternoon they decided to steal the equipment and had arranged a buyer for it for £130 . |
16 | There was a rugby match when we went down 89 points to nil . |
17 | They went back two days later , having kept the secret to themselves . |
18 | But they went down 10 minutes from time to a disputed penalty . |
19 | They went down 400 votes to 170 . |
20 | And Philip remembered how he 'd seen her go out two weeks ago with yellow flowers in the back seat of the car . |
21 | But he wants it to go up one percent . |
22 | Rushing , rushing , traffic from morning to night : it goes on twenty-four hours a day . |
23 | I hope it goes off one day . |
24 | It goes back 50 years . |
25 | In late August , after the terns had fledged , he went over one evening to do some work on the island , and on the way back in the dusk he disturbed a party of terns which were roosting on the beach , one of which flew into the tractor and was killed . |
26 | Only too painfully aware of his inadequate technique , he went off one day to see his cousin-in-law , Anton Mauve , a successful painter of the Hague school — armed perhaps with a letter of recommendation from dear Uncle Cent . |
27 | I know it went up two steps . |