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

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1 I say the choice , but since any even half-curious visitor to the High Pyrenees will want to go up both valleys , it comes down only to deciding which to visit first .
2 The number of police officrs in the Thames Valley in relation to the population is still less than it was twenty years ago , yet crime has gone up six times .
3 In the past 11 years , the publicity budget for the Department of Education and Science has gone up 28 times .
4 North America and Europe are catching up fast , but it is appropriate that a Japanese company has gone back 30 years for a discarded technology to solve some of the problems .
5 So I said , we done all that , and then we 'd to go back fourteen miles .
6 Apart from identifying me as a Leeds supporter , the quality is normally a LOT better than your average socks etc , I have socks which I still wear going back 6–7 years , and they still feel like socks !
7 Remember that you are bound to go along some passages that are dead ends .
8 ‘ To be honest , Clem , it started to go out twenty years ago when we failed to join the Common Market at the outset .
9 Either the building was much bigger than it looked , or he was now on some wide underground level without having gone down any steps , or — as he was beginning to suspect — the inner dimensions of the place disobeyed a fairly basic rule of architecture by being bigger than the outside .
10 You used to have to go down three steps , and they used to fetch the beer in a jug .
11 We 've to go back fourteen miles , we 've come fourteen and we 've to go back fourteen miles .
12 We 've to go back fourteen miles , we 've come fourteen and we 've to go back fourteen miles .
13 so the staff use that and the children had to go up six flights of stairs
14 ‘ Tom , we 've gone up three flights .
15 After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it .
16 After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it .
17 Charges have gone up 17 times under the Government .
18 Pru motor premiums have gone up three times this year and house contents insurance rose by 20p in the £1 this July and further increases can not be ruled out .
19 Well he 's gone on seven days of the week complaining about so and so we 'll just narrow that down to one article about his his complaint that they may just make a little note he 's complained seven times about this !
20 In the last half hour , it 's gone up 6 inches .
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