Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] go [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years .
2 It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding .
3 Yeah , and then from that they 've now got these fucking things that show the direction , the sign , the speed and oh its incredible sonar 's been going longer than radar , but only just we were the world leader 's now , I mean we cos we , cos we preserve fuel , we knew exactly , they left it for the last minute to get up there and intercept them .
4 Cos the vice has been going rusty .
5 The vice has been going rusty cos of the dryer .
6 The NCT Houseswap Register has been going 15 years now and raises over £500 annually .
7 This and every other manor acquisition Le Roux made was to go wrong , quickly , nastily , and , in the last case , quite spectacularly .
8 Yeah , oh Belinda 's been going bloody crackers again
9 If you think you are eating too much salt , the first thing to do is to go easy on the amount you sprinkle on food and use in cooking .
10 The men had been gone several weeks , and when we appeared on the beach , the bear was probably expecting us to produce food .
11 He and Henry had been going all their grown-up lives to the British Transport Museum in Clapham , running their fingers over the polished wheels , regretting the end of brass fitments , and taking in the beauty of the fish-net luggage racks .
12 And according to the Corry Group which sponsored the sculpture local householders have been going batty to buy the bricks for inclusion in new buildings and restored properties .
13 This year , despite the injuries which have befallen them , and the unfortunate suspension of the experienced Kieran McKeever , Derry believe that their preparations have been going better than last year .
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