Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] go [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reporters like Terry Lewis needed so little to go on to formulate a story ; he would n't even have to name Luke Calder , just make some veiled references to his identity that could be enough to discredit him . |
| 2 | Brigadier Smithson , who was apparently due to go on leave the next day , rang Southern Command and managed to arrange that he should go straight to London by train after the conference . |
| 3 | In the late 1980s Bluetts agreed to a mangement buyout and capital investment but the firm 's inability to meet the cost of the rent on its new premises opposite Claridge 's Hotel , and the slackness of trade as perceived by Chesfield , has meant that they are no longer willing to go on supporting the company . |
| 4 | He 's most likely going down to tell Mr Hyde . ’ |
| 5 | By the end of our discussion , however , he was still prepared to go on thinking about an editorial involvement — I ( mis ? ) led him to believe the amount of work could be contained and he would be given good backing by OUP . |
| 6 | Even when their children go to school , single mothers are more likely to go on living on welfare benefits than other lone parents . |
| 7 | In the 1946 cohort the less able ( measured at age 11 ) and women with no qualifications start having babies earlier and are also more likely to go on to have third and higher order births and have them at shorter intervals . |
| 8 | At night , even though the baby has woken , the quiet , dark , unstimulating environment makes him more likely to go back to sleep . |
| 9 | Ideal , if you want to be down here , from there downwards , you 're probably better going back doing what you did before . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm perfectly content to go on living with you under the original terms . |
| 11 | I 'm quite willing to go on doing it . |
| 12 | After 10 minutes of this week 's edition I was too embarrassed to go on listening . |
| 13 | I shut my eyes and try to go to sleep , but there 's too much going on to sleep . |
| 14 | Too hot to go back to sleep . |
| 15 | In any case , she was too scared to go back to sleep even if she had been able to . |