Example sentences of "[adv] go [adv] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I would speak to Otto , ask him how best to go about having Jean-Claude 's work assessed for performance . |
| 2 | However , the ordinary member of the public can not go around arresting cyclists and homeless persons and so on under section 25 . |
| 3 | He simply could not go around labelling people , and moving them about as if they were chess pieces , just to suit his own ends . |
| 4 | She did n't look up when I said I was sorry I had been unkind , just went on opening drawers and dropping things and muttering ; I had begun to wonder if she had heard me , when she said , ‘ All right , all right , I 'm going just as soon as I can get my things together , I 'm not one to stay where I 'm not wanted . ’ |
| 5 | Rain saw they were still to go on pretending Foucard and Denis understood no English . |
| 6 | Unlike my old man I did n't go much on pubs , the dogs or cribbage but I still went on supporting West Ham most Saturday afternoons . |
| 7 | I asked him to bring me a sandwich and a glass of wine , and still went on reading Jane Eyre . |
| 8 | In the meanwhile while houses have not been built , people still go on forming households . |
| 9 | Now you surprise me cos I would have thought cos you always went round holding hands and looked so happy . |
| 10 | You ca n't go round splashing paint on the walls , things like that really . |
| 11 | You 'll find people in favour of capital punishment do n't go round murdering people . ’ |
| 12 | But I do n't go round thumping people all the time . |
| 13 | But we do n't go round smashing things up all the time like some kids . |
| 14 | I ca n't believe that anybody in his position could behave like that — you ca n't go round hitting photographers , whatever the situation . |
| 15 | ‘ They ca n't go around alarming people on the basis of flimsy evidence . ’ |
| 16 | You ca n't go around calling people murderers , you know . ’ |
| 17 | You ca n't go around calling people liars just because their memories are a bit faulty . |
| 18 | You ca n't go around pushing people to do things that they do n't want to do . |
| 19 | I suppose one reason we 've got on so well , May , is that you do n't go around resenting things and feeling you 're wasted on ordinary mortals . |
| 20 | I do n't go around making things up just to get myself a story ! ’ |
| 21 | I do n't go around killing women . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You ca n't go around saying things like that , ’ she protested . |
| 23 | ‘ You ca n't go on pretending Sarella and you are serious . |
| 24 | Though I hope we do n't go on having family Christmases . |
| 25 | Cal did n't turn round from the front seat , but Mrs Fry said , ‘ We could n't go on playing Scrabble in the rain when we knew you 'd gone off like that , and your parents sounded so dreadful on the phone . |
| 26 | A female courts one or more males and then goes round laying eggs in nests prepared by them on the ground . |
| 27 | The Peace People group , though , has its own views on how to go about promoting harmony between people from different backgrounds in Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | The book offers plenty of advice on how to achieve special decorative effects , plus how to go about choosing fabrics , furniture and accessories to re-create the look of each style . |
| 29 | It explains how to go about adjusting LIFESPAN for a particular application : for example , allocating the resources and privileges of the LIFESPAN accounts . |
| 30 | He may have some more or less general ideas about how to go about solving problems without the knowledge and means to solve them himself . |