Example sentences of "[conj] go [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That underrated favourite of Martin Scorsese , Harvey Keitel , appears in Reservoir Dogs , a tense thriller about a diamond heist that goes badly wrong because someone has grassed on the top thieves . |
| 2 | The refusal this week by Virginia Bottomley , the new Health Secretary , to outlaw ‘ gagging clauses ’ in health workers ' contracts raises alarm about the climate of fear in British society that goes far wider than the NHS . |
| 3 | But since it was established in 1775 to serve as a printer to Edinburgh 's legal , banking and ecclesiastical communities P&W has developed a strong position in financial printing , providing it with a coverage that goes much wider than ‘ Sketch and describe an electronic circuit . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Lee , who is the first leader to be Taiwan-born and Taiwan-bred , has a taste for reforms that go too far and too fast for the old-guard mainlanders . |
| 5 | After the war a series of anti-colonial , anti-settler , Kikuyu language newspapers existed that went mainly unchecked because the British colonial administrators knew Swahili but not Kikuyu . |
| 6 | It was a gigantic explosion that went very wrong and created the Universe … ’ |
| 7 | Our slimmer is never above 9 st 4 lb ( 59.0 kg ) , spends most days at 9 st 3 lb ( 58.5 kg ) , and goes as low as 9 st O lb ( 57.2 kg ) . |
| 8 | She is now 24 years old and going as strong as ever . |
| 9 | And that part of my mind seemed to whine faintly and go very cold and still . |
| 10 | After a long exciting time we caught the train and went home tired but happy . |
| 11 | Clifford told police : ‘ I picked the gun up and went totally berserk and shot him . ’ |
| 12 | She shook herself inwardly , said severely , Control yourself , Sally-Anne Tunstall ; remember what happened when you had such soft thoughts about a man before , and the sudden dreadful memory this evoked hit her so hard that she stopped dead in her tracks , gave a stifled wail , and went so white that Dr Neil , hearing her , and looking at her , saw that her pallor was so extreme that he thought her on the verge of fainting . |
| 13 | Derek cracked up , but I was dumbstruck — super embarrassed — for about thirty seconds , and went as red as a radish . |
| 14 | ‘ She began to make weird , inhuman sounds and went as stiff as a board . |
| 15 | The toddler instantly stiffened and went as rigid as a board . |
| 16 | The Wall Street Journal hears that the company has listed the 60MHz version at $905 for 1,000-up , and gone as low as $850 each for its best customers ; the 66MHz version is said to cost $1,000 . |
| 17 | The Wall Street Journal hears that the company has listed the 60MHz version at $905 for 1,000-up , and gone as low as $850 each for its best customers ; the 66MHz version is said to cost $1,000 . |
| 18 | At low frequencies the signals do not have much carrying capacity , but go too high and the oxygen and hydrogen molecules in the atmosphere can actually vibrate in sympathy with the radio waves , absorbing the signals . |
| 19 | She described her husband as going quite white and in tears . |