Example sentences of "[adj] go [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , talking about engineering as a whole , quite obviously it 's interesting to go back a bit because I 'm always interested in the way the institutions actually started because er there 's a lovely story about er , the Stephenson brothers and tho , ju , having just come down from Scarborough on a mini-holiday we stopped at York and I went over a great big museum there , and quite obviously seeing the marvellous locomotives you realise that George Stevenson had er , a lot to do with that . |
| 2 | This goes down a lot better . |
| 3 | This goes back a generation , to when Maltese marriage customs were very strictly observed . |
| 4 | We 're all going on a Summer holiday for a week or two me and you |
| 5 | ‘ We 'll be able to go out a bit while I 'm on this early shift , ’ she said consolingly . |
| 6 | Mike Wood normally flies Hawk jets but he 's happy to go down a step to share the piloting with Squadron Leader , Tim Farmer who 's happy to step up from his normal ground based job as a health and environment officer . |
| 7 | Some , through failing health or eyesight , were obliged to go down a couple of rungs on the ladder however , and there are an increasing number of cases in the 1940s of former compositors working as copy-holders for lower pay . |
| 8 | SUCH has been the scale of reopenings ( not to mention survivals ) of lines and stations in the 1980s that to put matters in perspective it is necessary to go back a bit in history . |
| 9 | ‘ You sound like a royal going round a factory , ’ Fred said . |