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

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1 The main route goes along a narrow elevated ridge from Gray Crag to Thornthwaite Crag where you 'll find the tallest cairn in the Lake District at around 20ft high .
2 Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road .
3 Our most controversial cover last year showed a photograph of a red car going around a Swiss hairpin , with the headline ‘ Ford 's new Escort meets its rivals ’ , and then , underlined in red , ‘ … and loses ’ .
4 A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ .
5 But do n't be fooled by the island 's exotic name or location just off Africa — once the sun goes down the whole place comes alive .
6 Because of the Government 's apparent lack of enthusiasm for all things European , and their determination to go along a slow track , will not Scotland lose out again without any chance of the central bank being cited in Glasgow or Edinburgh ?
7 So if you put a big heavy engine going down a cast iron railway which wo n't
8 Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ?
9 It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit .
10 I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid .
11 ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’
12 Drink went down the wrong way . ’
13 Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way .
14 Iron working in the area goes back a long way .
15 at two o'clock on Saturdays and whizzes round the town doing wheelies round the town so I said to him last night Scott sit down I want you to read something , I said take a good look at the paper , I said it could 've been you , doing that , you think you 're so fucking clever and big running round the town , I said it only takes you to lose control go up the bloody curb and bang , that 's what happened , I said think about what the hell you 're doing
16 Lili 's cigarette smoke went down the wrong way .
17 The old woman went along a short passage , passed a scullery and continued on a few yards .
18 On Thursday the weedkiller train went up the Cambrian Coast , thus spending two nights at Machynlleth .
19 After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way .
20 However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way .
21 This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy .
22 My Bud went down the wrong way and I had a fit of choking .
23 When Razor went down the first time I was shouting and jumping up and down , ’ she said .
24 The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way .
25 The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way .
26 Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet .
27 US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses .
28 Then there 's er the door the door at forty feet and there 's er a gunmetal ladder going up the forty feet you 've got to climb up to get into the door .
29 Dionne went for the outlaw type , or so she said , then mothered and civilised them until they were unrecognisable , and when her dream of civilised and raunchy equality went out the slammed door , there she was alone again , smoking a little more than usual , drinking a little more than necessary and swearing herself to celibacy until the next sulky brow slouched into view and stole her hopeful heart away .
30 She goes Dear Doctor Allen , My Mum and Dad went out the other day and I was bored so I started rubbing my dog and my dog got turned on and so did I .
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