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

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1 Personally , I do not find it objectionable , and in any case the smell goes off very quickly when it comes into contact with the soil and bacteria get to work on it .
2 But though Athens ' diplomatic interest in the west goes back so early , it seems that Syracuse 's aims of conquest long preceded and are independent of any serious commitment of men or money by Athens .
3 After a meal consisting largely of refined carbohydrate food the blood-sugar level goes up very quickly , which would seem to be a good thing in satisfying the appetite .
4 He commented , ‘ SCOTVEC provision with its flexibility of delivery and assessment goes down particularly well with our European partners .
5 Perhaps that piece goes on there somewhere , is that a piece of his nose ?
6 Why is it that a cup of tea goes down so well ?
7 Have n't got the key to go round there once so , I 'll put that on and I 've got a nightie .
8 That 's what I 'd like to know cos there 's a lot of confusion going on out there .
9 It was hot and the demonstration went on much too long , but it gave us all some idea of how caring the teachers were and it was a practical illustration of what the school was trying to do .
10 Foreign ownership goes back just as far , in the sense that individuals such as Waldorf Astor and Max Aitken ( Lord Beaverbrook ) used foreign capital to buy into the English press .
11 Because erm , sun goes round very often it starts in the winter .
12 Of course , the Cardiff bay barrage proposal goes back much further than that .
13 ‘ The council goes on too long , ’ he said .
14 There 's no dancing going on up there .
15 He added : ‘ There is real suffering going on right now and we have to do what we can to alleviate it … to make sure people do n't starve . ’
16 The origins of this philosophy go back as far as 1970 when Shell and the Nature Conservancy first devised a competition aimed at encouraging young people to come up with ideas to conserve their local environment .
17 In Scotia and in Orkney , the work went on as fast as resources would allow , and more speedily than it might once have done because of the cleared roads and the stations of help that now existed through the newborn network of local churches and local leadership .
18 I mean you had noticed there 's a hurricane going on out here ? ’
19 I could feel an awful churning going on down there , and I was sure it would only end one way , but I could n't move .
20 After pointing out that the distinction between cases of habeas corpus in a criminal matter , and cases where the matter is not criminal goes back very far , Viscount Simon L.C. said , at pp. 156–157 :
21 We make sure your mortgage goes through as quickly and as easily as possible .
22 she told me there ai n't no wo , no point going in now before for the night anyway because everything 's so dear .
23 The Board of Trade meeting went off very well , with both Mr Murray and Mr Bushnell answering questions with exactly the right tact and diplomacy .
24 The analysis of the expenses of production of a commodity might be carried backward to any length ; but it is seldom worth while to go back very far .
25 How 's the new Head going down now then ?
26 But she would n't be here and , as the taxi went on ever upwards so Fabia tried to get herself in a frame of mind where she could deal cheerfully with Lubor 's banter .
27 You sometimes try to eat more fruit but the secret store of chocolate goes down just as fast .
28 My God , did the lift go down low enough ?
29 The champagne went down very well on the night the Tobacco Institute of Australia 's appeal substantially failed , but we fear that the hangover from this report may last rather longer .
30 The tide went out as fast as it came in , and it was not unusual for large fish to be stranded in one of the various sized lakes left behind in the sand hollows .
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