Example sentences of "[noun] go [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The main route goes along a narrow elevated ridge from Gray Crag to Thornthwaite Crag where you 'll find the tallest cairn in the Lake District at around 20ft high .
2 Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road .
3 Our most controversial cover last year showed a photograph of a red car going around a Swiss hairpin , with the headline ‘ Ford 's new Escort meets its rivals ’ , and then , underlined in red , ‘ … and loses ’ .
4 A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ .
5 Patrick Kelly and Frederick Flowers went back a long way .
6 Because of the Government 's apparent lack of enthusiasm for all things European , and their determination to go along a slow track , will not Scotland lose out again without any chance of the central bank being cited in Glasgow or Edinburgh ?
7 So if you put a big heavy engine going down a cast iron railway which wo n't
8 Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ?
9 It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit .
10 I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid .
11 The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ .
12 ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’
13 Collective self-help and co-operative ways of tackling problems go back a long way .
14 His memories go back a long , long way . ’
15 He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street .
16 Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way .
17 Iron working in the area goes back a long way .
18 When describing the apparent relationship , instead of making the somewhat vague generalization ‘ the higher the X , the higher the Y ’ , the linear summary permits a more precise generalization ‘ every time X goes up a certain amount , Y seems to go up a specified multiple of that amount ’ .
19 This may not seem too controversial , but when one of the team leaders is an ex-alcoholic it requires tremendous openness to God to go down a risky and unexpected route !
20 Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so .
21 The old woman went along a short passage , passed a scullery and continued on a few yards .
22 After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way .
23 However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way .
24 This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy .
25 The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way .
26 The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way .
27 Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet .
28 US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses .
29 The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history .
30 The arch-rivals go back a long way .
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