Example sentences of "[conj] go [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been out and was coming in , although the way he walked suggested that going out had not been a great success , and that not much awaited him at home . |
| 2 | ( 3 ) Why did the universe start out with so nearly the critical rate of expansion that separates models that recollapse from those that go on expanding forever , so that even now , ten thousand million years later , it is still expanding at nearly the critical rate ? |
| 3 | In other words , a complete picture of the structure of competition must be built up from consideration of the location and form of the whole chain of activities that go together to make up a business . |
| 4 | In the New Features box , you 'll see an outline listing of the bits and bobs that go together to make up Presentations 2.0 . |
| 5 | he screamed to persuade himself that he was not frightened , and suddenly the barricade dissolved in an explosion of smoke through which the musket flames stabbed like shivers of light and the General 's long white moustache was whipped by a bullet that went on to tear away his left ear-lobe , but that was the only injury he took for he had always been a lucky man , and he caught a glimpse of long weeds shivering under the silver water beneath the bridge , then he kicked his heels hard back , and his awkward ugly horse clumsily jumped the heaped-chairs at the right-hand end of the barricade . |
| 6 | A LETTER reproves me for singling out rotten spelling in other places , notably The Guardian , and goes on to point out that this magazine is not immune . |
| 7 | The beggar is plainly moved , and goes on looking curiously at Howard for some moments after he has walked on . |
| 8 | If we were asking this question of an amphibian or reptile , which lays its eggs and goes away to live solitarily except when the mating season comes around again , we would answer it purely in terms of the physical ecology of the species . |
| 9 | Surprised into consciousness , alone in the black hemisphere , he cries until he laughs ; then he uses the chamberpot that Rosa readied , and goes back to sleep quickly , despite the pain . |
| 10 | This resulted in the loss of three of Schleswig-Holstein 's 14 constituencies , and goes far to explain why in the whole of the Federal Republic there were only four excess seats in seven general elections held from 1965 onwards compared with 13 in the previous four . |
| 11 | It can be argued that this confinement to land-use issues was the basic problem with structure planning and goes far to explain why the exercise has in practice proved so limited in its impact , but in this chapter the focus is precisely on the politics of land use , and structure plan intentions are of considerable importance . |
| 12 | In June 1937 Reagan took up residence in Hollywood and quickly established himself as a promising film actor , performing in eight films in his first eleven months and going on to make more than fifty films altogether . |
| 13 | Bob tried to imagine Morris completing the trainee scheme , joining the pensions fund , and going on to groove out the diagonal of Hand and Ball Court morning and night for twenty or thirty years . |
| 14 | Already she 's talking about playschool and going back to work part-time . |
| 15 | We hear from before birth and go on hearing continuously all the time . |
| 16 | This illustrates the line to be drawn between credit which people genuinely choose for themselves from a range of options , and credit which they use and go on using almost automatically — credit which is therefore not entirely subject to the healthy influence of open competition and free consumer choice . |
| 17 | It affects every citizen in the UK , in direct or indirect ways that , for example , the manufacturing sector of the economy has drastically shrunk or that large proportions of young people still leave full-time education and go on to experience only low-level , underfunded training thereafter . |
| 18 | If you have to do the collating yourself , lay each separate page-pile next to each other around the room and go round picking up one page after the other , until you have the whole pamphlet together . |
| 19 | No , well mostly toilet in the middle of the night but I go straight back to bed and go back to sleep again . |
| 20 | She would take a bath and go in to work early — there was plenty to do . |
| 21 | Brown stood up and went over to see how the antique dealer was feeling . |
| 22 | William got up from his chair at the workbench and went over to open up with a puzzled frown . |
| 23 | Wilson 's relieving kick was charged down by Graeme Copeland who gathered and went over to touch down mid-way out for Cullen to add the points . |
| 24 | ‘ I borrowed some other guy 's gear and went straight back out and lost his too . |
| 25 | Interestingly , the teachers who did not use The Machine Gunners said things like , ‘ I like other books more ’ ( for example Conrad 's War and The Ghost of Thomas Kempe ) and went on to describe very positive pupil responses to these alternative titles . |
| 26 | Loopy Lil , with plum jam already streaked like blood round her mouth , grinned cheerfully and went on tucking in . |
| 27 | I found a woman talking unhappily into a telephone and tried to cheer her up and went on trying even after her boyfriend or husband appeared from somewhere . |
| 28 | At first he coped well and went on living independently in his own home . |
| 29 | ‘ Can you do something for me ? ’ she asked without preamble , and went on to explain quickly what it was she wanted done . |
| 30 | She just shook her head and went on looking up at him . |