Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983 it sold the contents of a Spanish galleon which went down off Cartagena carrying uncut emeralds and gold , and in 1988 homely spades , belaying pins and scrubbing brushes from HMS Invincible , a Royal Navy warship which foundered on a sandbank . |
| 2 | SUNDERLAND caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby was full of praise for his reserve side who went down to a single goal defeat to star-studded Manchester United Reserve side at Roker Park on Wednesday evening . |
| 3 | This account , though it applies much more widely , is essentially the same as an explanation of these social phenomena which goes back at least to Hume , who accounted for ‘ the artificial virtues of chastity and modesty in women ’ by referring to the naturally greater disposition of males to protect children that they believe to be their own . |
| 4 | Turnip salad with capers is no shock today and raw choucroûte salad , an idea Pomiane had picked up in Moscow — buy very fresh choucroûte from the charcutier and stop at the village pump to wash it thoroughly , he told those of his French readers who went in for picnics on canoeing and automobile excursions — should be the joy of vegetarians . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're doing fine , ’ he assured her , and with a curt nod she went back to her work . |
| 6 | So , no she 's very much in the background she was and then course little old boy he goes down to her and his old eyes lit up again s , so then eventually come in , so he said erm oh here 's that trophy they wanted , she come third in Great Britain , little old gran . |
| 7 | Few of the million or so visitors who take advantage of the Garden as a public amenity each year are aware of the scientific heritage behind the Garden , or indeed of the high level of scientific work which goes on behind the scenes today . |
| 8 | Yeah , we went through these stories , and tried to link all different things they go under , got attitudes , weight , sex , exploitation , memories , mother and child relationships , old fashioned settings , aspirations , working women , ageism , husband and wife , loneliness , change , working in middle upper classes , racism and grief , and then , we started again , through the stories giving numbers , and putting them under the headings we thought they came under , but the thing is , we 've got a lot of them under all , well not all the headings , but a couple of the headings . |
| 9 | I saw it happen once to a dear old woman who went around a group of people , gently offering her book , and everyone signed except one . |
| 10 | Is there a reliable man who goes back and forth freely into Wales ? ’ |
| 11 | Then Mr. Russ would call the names of the top boys who went up to receive a silver threepenny piece . |
| 12 | But Cadfael was certain by then that Herluin did not know his Tutilo at all , probably never had any clear idea what went on in the minds of any of his novices , because he paid no regard to them . |
| 13 | Moreover , I do n't trust English clerks who go around asking questions as if Scotland was another English shire . |
| 14 | Throughout the nineteenth century the national movements which developed within the great multinational empires which dominated eastern and central Europe were inspired by the sense of deep historical roots which went back into an imaginary golden age before the Ottomans , the Habsburgs , the Romanovs and the Hohenzollerns enslaved the ancient nations of medieval Europe . |
| 15 | And yet , if you join those two inert things together in the right ratios they go off with a very big bang . |
| 16 | The essential quality of the world was its transitoriness vis-à-vis God , not the visible change which went on unceasingly in the world . ’ |
| 17 | Harry Fry , John Ross and Jimmy Rutherford , ordinary Scots who went off to fight for a cause in Spain and who were not to return . |
| 18 | Another delay as the work train was slowly shunted along , and as there were no seats on the customer side of the counter in the tiny room he went out into the periodicals area . |
| 19 | Giving her a polite , mechanical smile she went on milking , waiting for an explanation . |
| 20 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 21 | The following week they go off to their respective schools , to meet the teachers and the group of children they will be working with . |
| 22 | and then , that week , he sell 's ten pence a can , then the following week he still bought it ten pence , following week it goes up to eighteen pence , but he 's still selling what , so I do n't think it , I think . |
| 23 | This all seemed ideal from everyone 's point of view so the following week I went along . |
| 24 | In real life she went round clubs measuring men 's dicks to see if you could tell which club a man frequented by the size of his dick . ’ |
| 25 | And the hours er the early that 's what they called the early men they went in at one o'clock . |
| 26 | They were won by the Hungarian Democratic Form which went on to form a coalition government of right-of-centre parties . |
| 27 | In fact , Marx and Engels did not have much choice among anthropologists because most of them were heirs to the philosophical tradition which went back to Locke and which glorified private property . |
| 28 | STEVE DAVIS won the world title for the first time in 1981 and the following year we went back to Sheffield to show the world what a class act we were . |
| 29 | that it was extremely good but in actual fact it went on until twenty to nine at night |
| 30 | The son of a former naval commander who went on to become a sales rep for a marine- engines manufacturer , Tim was educated at Sevenoaks School , a minor public school in Kent where he became house captain . |