Example sentences of "[verb] go [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I get home at 12.30 I probably wo n't want to go down a club , but I 'll pull a beer out of the fridge , sit down and have a laugh at everybody else making pillocks of themselves , including the prat who calls him self the Hitman . |
| 2 | We 'd want to go back a bit before that . |
| 3 | Queenie , come up to my office right away will you , I want to go over a mistake in the takings . |
| 4 | Well if you rung you could always say oh I 'll have to go cos somebody at the door if she starts going on a bit long . |
| 5 | By now Jem had almost succeeded in prising Poll free from Sally-Anne , with the result that Poll 's wailing went up an octave . |
| 6 | ( It has gone up a bit since then , but not back to the post-1945 level . ) |
| 7 | The size of the speaker has gone up a notch here to 10″ , with the dimension of the ports increased accordingly . |
| 8 | Things have really taken off , our whole output has gone up a notch . |
| 9 | ‘ He has gone down a treat with the members , who have a lot of affection for him , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ Biochemistry , I see Mrs Hayman 's cholesterol has gone down a bit — Lizzie 's chest X-ray — haematology , Betty 's haemoglobin 's not too good — oh , the Hazell family 's tissue-typing results — ’ She gazed at them shaking her head sadly . |
| 11 | His best friend did not go to the funeral because he had already decided to go on a day trip to France ! |
| 12 | ‘ If you 're not seen to go out a lot , you 're a failure , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I 've even missed going out a couple of nights . ’ |
| 14 | But since we 've won in Barcelona , we 've had to go around a lot to dinners and appearing on television shows like A Question of Sport and Blue Peter . |
| 15 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 16 | Yeah because he 's got to go on a month 's course for a start , for just general and then we 've got to try and find him a a week 's course somewhere as A L O , I do n't know where but er in that time . |
| 17 | I do n't suggest that I think I should keep going on a year by year basis . |
| 18 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 19 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 20 | Whereby you know going back a bit it was quite the accepted thing to stand and have a chat for ten , twenty minutes and er life was at a slower pace . |
| 21 | Breakfast Car will probably have to go up a grade and go to slightly posher places . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , I think you 'll have to go round a bit . |
| 23 | So the the Yes it 's been going back a the the name , the firm in that sense I think goes back a lot of years . |
| 24 | Sheila and Annie did go on a bit last time . |
| 25 | He did go out a lot . |
| 26 | However , there is 5000 tonnes a year of , presumably , both mildly and highly toxic wastes that appears to have gone down a hole somewhere — perhaps literally . |
| 27 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 28 | Oh I 'd forgotten about that , right I had to go back a couple of times did n't I Bev ? |
| 29 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 30 | It had gone down a lot though . |