Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] go [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Today 's training exercise was only able to go ahead because of an emergency packing operation which has been set up at the base .
2 Hunched in a remote and subordinate cranny of government — devising a rent bill at the Ministry of Housing and Local Government , as a matter of fact — I was not disposed to go overboard when our armed forces were launched into the attack in November ; but what on earth was intended to come out of it and how an occupation found untenable could be tenably restored and sustained by force was beyond the comprehension of this unmoved spectator .
3 I was not keen to go yet because I still had a vivid memory of that hand .
4 But Kinnock is a fighter ; he is no more likely to go willingly than Mrs Thatcher was .
5 Well , there I was in London , penniless ; like the man in the gospel , I was too proud to go home so I begged and fought with the rest of the dispossessed in the dirty alleyways and streets of Whitechapel , Alsatia , and even across London Bridge amongst the stews of Southwark .
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