Example sentences of "[conj] go [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 You get some funny bits or going the wrong way .
2 You could hire taxis , or go the whole hog and hire a chauffeur-driven car for the day .
3 One of the highest scoring fighter pilots of the Battle of Britain , Bob Doe has written an interesting book that goes a good deal further than describing some of his exploits in the Battle .
4 Such recognition could help temper the arrogance of some Western thinkers — an arrogance that goes a long way to explain why some have found relativism so attractive .
5 The other thing is if the school children walk round , and through where they 're supposed to go , it still goes past Wide Pond , and they 've eroded all the grass where they 've made their own little footpaths through , I do n't think going that going the other way would make it any different .
6 than go the other way .
7 To meet the needs of piston-engine operators worldwide , a small number of specialist concerns thrive looking after the precious radial engine that go a long way towards making the DC-3 and DC-6 such economic miracle workers .
8 But the headlining act — a quartet splicing the former Miles Davis guitarist John Scofield with the British saxophonist Andy Sheppard — struck fireworks that went a long way towards helping the audience breathe out after some dodgy moments during the presentations .
9 Troy did , however , use one phrase that went a long way to describe the film 's great success , for he spoke of how it illustrated that ‘ an honest documentation of familiar American actualities becomes in a Hollywood film more absorbing than intrigue in Monte Carlo or pig-sticking in Bengal ’ .
10 But they sweetened their reign of fear with occasional favours and a glaze of authority that went a long way in communities accustomed to neither .
11 Reluctant as he was to part with evidence that went a long way to exonerating Colin , he knew surrendering it voluntarily was vastly preferable to having it seized .
12 Those who question Taylor 's future were left to swallow a performance that went a long way to answering the questions against the England manager .
13 ‘ It must be hell for you living with flesh that bubbles and erupts and goes a ghastly shade of taramasalata —
14 You 're not doing anything with your life because as usual you 're facing in the wrong direction and going the wrong way .
15 Indeed , I 'd probably sympathise and go a long way towards agreeing with those propositions if they were put to me .
16 but you do n't suddenly turn round and go the other way do you ?
17 He was about to turn and go the other way when he heard voices .
18 Now , diver deployment systems are accepted as normal offshore practise , and go a long way to making commercial diving safer .
19 Call her Marge , you might as well call her butter and go the whole hog might n't you really ?
20 They all we , turned round and went the other way again !
21 If he was in such a desperate hurry , he could have gone round and gone the other way
22 Education is seen to include some of this , but goes a long way beyond competence in application .
23 The new organizational and structural changes proposed in the Act are complex , but go a considerable way to addressing the problems outlined in Chapter 4 .
24 But even he could do nothing about a shot from Bishop which flashed past a group of players from the edge of the area but went the wrong side of the post and a header by Martin seconds from time which was cleared off the line .
25 Environmentalists hailed the decision as going a long way towards meeting the demands of campaigns in favour of preserving Antarctica .
26 If the traffic in emigrants was almost totally from the British Isles to America , the exchange in religious influences has often been seen as going the other way , from America to Britain .
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