Example sentences of "[verb] go [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His business has gone down a third . |
| 2 | They 'd gone down a narrow alleyway — up North they 're called ‘ ginnels ’ but do n't ask me why ; I just observe , I do n't translate — which led to another alley at right-angles . |
| 3 | ‘ We would like to go over a few points relating to the Livesey murder , ’ Bragg said evenly . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 6 | and then we 'd 've gone down a different avenue |
| 7 | Mushroom Bookshop and Airlift go back a long way , to the days when both of us attracted unwelcome police attention for some of our more esoteric wares . |
| 8 | At ten P M she did n't seem too great either , her temperature had gone up a little bit , but nevertheless , she slept on . |
| 9 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
| 10 | The sort of fellow who gets an erection when he hears the bank rate 's gone up a tenth of a percent . |
| 11 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 12 | And while th they 're down there , can they put a co re-bend that cornerstone , we used to have a cornerstone , it 's got pushed into the dike , and it 's gone down a few yards |
| 13 | obviously , but he 's , he 's gone down , I , I can see he 's gone down a little bit |