Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] go [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or so I thought , until I read this week that Prince Charles , who was held up to my by that selfsame grandmother as a paragon , has apparently gone the way of the rest of our post-war generation . |
| 2 | Then , in the 1950s and 1960s , it became highly controversial ; it has now gone the way of all controversial terms — it is too highly charged to be useful . |
| 3 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
| 4 | By the mid-80s they had all gone the way of the buffalo : extinct save for preservation in the national park of permanent re-runs . |
| 5 | You 've just gone a lot quieter |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never went a fiver before . ’ |
| 7 | It 's just gone a bit sticky like . |
| 8 | Now it 's really gone a bit bit over the top I think . |
| 9 | These makeshifts are now attracting the serious collectors who once paid huge sums for classics that have now gone the way of brown polyester suits . |