Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] go [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NEARLY 400 cattle were auctioned in just one hour without the animals , vendors or buyers going off to market when the first sale of fat stock by satellite television went on screen . |
| 2 | It means following the ignis fatuus , the ‘ will o ’ the wisp' that traditionally leads travellers into bog or quicksand ; an analogue to the multiple wanderings of Book 111 is Frodo staring at the corpse-candles in chapter 2 of Book IV , to be warned by Gollum not to heed them , or the dead , rotten , phantasmal faces in the marshes below : ‘ Or hobbits go down to join the Dead ones and light little candles . |
| 3 | It was with tears of joy in his eyes , that Felix went forward to meet the torchbearers , who by their chants were evidently proclaiming him the hero of the hour . |
| 4 | At this point we may ask how it is that speakers go about creating linguistically the persona which they animate at any one particular time . |
| 5 | ‘ We know Clydebank will make it difficult for us on their own ground but it is important to this club that Aberdeen go through to meet Hibs in the semi-finals , ’ said manager Willie Miller . |
| 6 | The sitting was abandoned by Mayall , although Diccon went on to finish the picture — it subsequently won the senior award in the Irish National Portrait Painting Contest . |
| 7 | A survey of 140 heads , deputies and careers teachers by a marketing consultancy found that 54 per cent thought that businesses went about recruiting school-leavers ‘ not very well ’ or ‘ very badly ’ . |
| 8 | I think it 's this month that Lee goes back to see the specialist at whatsername , Bradford . |
| 9 | It seems that every now and again the memory gets so disorganised that Windows goes off to do something about it and hence the frightening silence . |
| 10 | Expressing initial disbelief , Tom confirmed that Putt went out riding on Vulcan most mornings . |
| 11 | It was as if to prove that it was n't England that had changed that Losey went on to make Accident ( 1967 ) , a powerful triangle drama involving two very different Oxford academics and their exotic pupil , financed from English sources . |
| 12 | When giving instruction in thermal soaring , I try to insist that students go on attempting to find lift until about 5–600 feet , and I very often explain my own thoughts and precautions as they do the flying . |
| 13 | Let's hope that EMI goes on to restore Barbirolli 's stereo account of the Fifth Symphony with the Philharmonia . |
| 14 | Slaven 's two first-half goals lifted the game and Middlesbrough went on to record their highest win of the season . |
| 15 | During that time Léonie and Madeleine went on coming to France in the school holidays , just as they always had . |
| 16 | Gibbs did so and Harvey went out to drive , but with his injured leg could not get to the pitch and holed out to Sobers . |
| 17 | They drove into an underground vehicle park where Leila and Cable went off to check them in with security and pay the initial tariff . |
| 18 | The fresh and crispies went on to receive a great deal more acclaim than The Chorus who were hardly noticed , even within their hometown . |
| 19 | This is far from obvious in snowy conditions , and attempts to go up form the stance are forced off left . |
| 20 | He goes on to say of course federal laws were not being obeyed in the confederacy because they 'd rejected the entire panoply of federal laws and Lincoln goes on to point out must they these laws and the confederacy be allowed to state the question more directly , are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the government itself to go to pieces less that one be violated . |
| 21 | MacKinlay and Ramaswamy went on to study the behaviour of these mispricings . |
| 22 | Newcomer and Szajgin go on to define the lower and upper bounds of accuracy in the output map . |
| 23 | The inclusion of special relativistic accounts of thermodynamics and electromagnetism go far to bear out the author 's claim that special relativity provides ‘ a foundation on which almost the whole of modern physical theory has been built ’ . |
| 24 | They guided Essex to a powerful position of 173 for 4 in the 36th over , and Stephenson went on to make 93 as Essex reached 222 all out . |
| 25 | Hubel and Wiesel went on to record output from cortical cells , while illuminating the retina in various ways . |
| 26 | But the publicly alleged reasons were as follows … ’ and Thucydides goes on to give them : quarrels between Athens and Corinth over Corcyra and Potidaia . |
| 27 | However , when she disappeared into the powder room at the hotel where they stopped for lunch on the way back to London and Dunbar went off to book a table in the restaurant , he and Aubrey had a moment alone together . |
| 28 | With 21–7 and 8 returns in the opening set it was hardly surprising that Warwick and Worcester went on to take seven of the 12 cards . |
| 29 | On March 24 , 1892 , Andrew Ernest Stoddart scored 134 in England 's 499 at Adelaide and England went on to record their largest winning margin against Australia — an innings and 230 runs — until the Oval Test of 1938 . |
| 30 | As a result , many of AEA 's bright scientists and engineers went out hunting for work . |