Example sentences of "[noun sg] go the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | mm , cos listen to what I mean , Ollie goes , I was sitting next to Ollie yeah and she looks at my thingy , yeah , and she goes that 's what , you 've missed out three , so I sat there writing all the nec numbers , yeah , and miss goes the other table and I 'm like oh come on Carla hurry up and do the numbers inside , and I missed , I just could n't , I could n't catch up |
| 2 | The further out from York the new settlement goes the less self contained it will be , the more the tendency will be for travel into the city , which is the main service centre to be car based . |
| 3 | David , 29 , said he had lost control when he swerved to miss a car going the wrong way round a roundabout . |
| 4 | It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size . |
| 5 | Ping went the little bell , the way some of them do . |
| 6 | Ping went the little bell . |
| 7 | I think very often the influence goes the other way . |
| 8 | Traditionally , I always feel that the influence goes the other way . |
| 9 | In galleries across the city , needles were passed indiscriminately from arm to arm , and along with each hit went the deadly virus . |
| 10 | In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread says the Old Testament ; salvation through hard work go the Protestant ethic and the rigidities of the New Right ; labour power , how nature is tamed and society transformed , argues Marxism . |
| 11 | Liberal Theology went the same way , though it substituted the categories of Ritschl 's system for those of Hegel 's . |
| 12 | Nearly all the readings of the printed version are either musically superior to those in the theatre score , or result from octave transposition — necessary at one point to avoid an unplayable bottom B' B♭ occasioned by downward transposition from G to F. ( A change would have been unnecessary had the transposition gone the other way . ) |
| 13 | She was on foot going the other way , so I opened the gate for her . |
| 14 | With the job goes the enormous responsibility of ensuring that the equipment is always on top form . |
| 15 | With each sound went the silky sound of electricity . |
| 16 | Click-click went the little machine in Pumfrey 's brain that was card-indexing all this information , putting arrows against all the possible trails . |
| 17 | POLICY GOES THE FULL CIRCLE |
| 18 | ‘ I think we can beat Glenavon but will have to keep our fingers crossed that the other game goes the right way for us , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Tap-tap-tap goes the ancient forester with his trusty axe , runically carving a cleft in a knotted trunk to warn his fellow-woodsmen of a noxious toadstool which groweth hereabouts . |
| 20 | The mood swoop went the other way . |
| 21 | This pledge was fulfilled in 1971 and thus the Land Commission went the same way as it predecessor , the Central Land Board . |
| 22 | But with half an hour gone the poor quality of United 's final ball had left Cantona stranded and still looking for a chance to put some flesh on Ferguson 's bold predictions . |
| 23 | Baldwin then made no demur against the Chancellor 's recommendation ; there would have been a greater chance of his demurring had the decision gone the other way , not because of his views but because of his admiration and affection for Montagu Norman , the intellectually certain Governor of the Bank of England . |
| 24 | A self-proclaimed poineer and the ‘ first man to go the whole hog ’ with his business , the Wild Boar Company , he was all for setting the strictest standards of breeds , offering a product aimed at the ‘ luxury end ’ of the market . |
| 25 | And they had home brew going the whole time . |
| 26 | Yet the sight of his daughter going the same way seriously displeased him . |
| 27 | I think the the key point about patriotism is one reason why perhaps people in , in Britain and so on should n't be patriotic too , but if you see the rather cynical attitude of the Western countries towards recent events , not just in Russia but right across the Eastern block , very good example was condemned , erm but when , following the massacres erm , the West has gone on to sort of do deals with the winners and cultivate links er with the people responsible for that massacre , the killing of the Soviet Union went the other way and consequently erm that 's where you know Western resources are directed . |
| 28 | ‘ Because if you are you 're sure as hell going the right way to getting one ! |
| 29 | While the long-wavists might point to effects of changes in production on wider society , they are less likely than the regulationists to see the cause-and-effect relation going the other way . |
| 30 | The union claimed great achievements ; " Register Tickets or Seamen 's Passports abolished , forced payments to the Merchant Seamen 's Fund gone the same road ; coal whipping ( i.e. the discharge of relatively small amounts of coal at minor ports which on the Thames was the job of " eight licensed coal-whippers , who are all able bodied men , with one basket-man to every vessel " ) by Seamen in the Thames has received its death blow ; the coasting trade has been relieved from the officiousness of a Shipping Master ; small stores , or payments instead , has been allowed ; WAGES have RISEN , and so have FREIGHTS ; ships sailed by members of the society are better manned ; and lastly , the improvements in the law have helped slightly to ameliorate the condition of Seamen as a class " . |