Example sentences of "[pron] go [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I go down a steep or longish hill , braking on the engine , by the time I 've reached the bottom the engine seems to be suffering from fuel starvation and consequently refuses to go up the other side . |
| 2 | ‘ Victor and I go back a long way . |
| 3 | Ali and I go back a long way . |
| 4 | Yes , Nicole and I go back a long way , and yes , you could say that we 're involved on more than just a superficial level . |
| 5 | Tyler and I go back a few years . |
| 6 | And then Ted and I went out a little bit later and we sa , we found two goldfish and two golden |
| 7 | And I went down a few hundred yards again . |
| 8 | I went along a few more times , but just sat there in silence . |
| 9 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 10 | Yeah good old laugh , I remember my scout motto , I promise that I 'll do my best and do my duties its going back a long , long way brother . |
| 11 | But it was years since she had felt at ease in any store which went back a long way from the street and therefore had no windows through which she could see daylight . |
| 12 | Every morning he prepares a range of at least 20 sweets , which go down a real treat . |
| 13 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 14 | Nice , very nice , you went up a long hall toward , as soon as you got er through the doors it was very nice really , quite , quite something for Caldmore anyway . |
| 15 | " I expect , living here in Chelsea , you go out a great deal . " |
| 16 | I think if you go back a hundred years the problems in British culture were much worse , but nonetheless I do think there 's a tremendous arrogance around in modern so-called civilized Britain , and particularly when they talk about the ancient civilization of Israel , I just think that they were a far more humane nation than we are . |
| 17 | The two of you go back a long way . ’ |
| 18 | Are we going out a third time ? |
| 19 | We go up a long , but steepish , slope and pause to catch our breath and share the experience . |
| 20 | We go back a long way , me and God , and from his first words I could tell that this was going to be a difficult call . |
| 21 | But I hope he will ; we go back a long way . |
| 22 | We go back a long way . ’ |
| 23 | We go back a long way , he and I. " |
| 24 | ‘ I mean that we go back a long way , and yes , there 's a very special relationship between us , but that 's because … ’ another pause , and he raked his fingers through his hair in a helpless , frustrated gesture ‘ … it was her sister I fell in love with all those years ago . ’ |
| 25 | I mean at one stage we go back a hundred years — back to Dalton he thought of his atoms as being fundamental entities that could never be broken up , whereas now we know that an atom is a very complicated structure and we can measure things about atoms , we can measure the distribution , we can where the electrons and so on are . |
| 26 | If we go back a few years , I do n't know how many people remember before we had DOPACS , I remember when projects used to come into the group from on high , they used to filter through the organization , until they landed on somebody 's desk who was actually supposed to carry out the work . |
| 27 | This proved rather funny because when we went round a sharp bend , the cupboard door flew open , the porta-potty rolled out like a cheap-thrills show , and on the next bend it rolled back in again and the door closed ! |
| 28 | We went up a few steps and into a small majlis which was nearly choked by deep couches pushed against its walls . |
| 29 | We went down a hundred feet , perhaps a bit more . |
| 30 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |