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

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1 To be honest you 'd be better off instead of aiming for Watford going straight across .
2 After lunch going progressively easier , went back on to piste , sandy but rocky at bottom of tyre-tracks .
3 At the end of this period matters had by no means gone as far as this , for the growth of political parties in eighteenth-century England was curiously erratic .
4 ‘ A lot of knitting went on then , too . ’
5 This loss of faith goes far deeper among the young than the old .
6 Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice .
7 Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice .
8 ‘ I think ’ , said Mrs Quigley , sniffing the stale parlour with her long , dog 's nose , ‘ that there 's a bit of play-acting going on here ! ’
9 Why is it that a cup of tea goes down so well ?
10 When the males were returned the level of fighting went down again .
11 All kinds of signals going up there to the score board .
12 The hardships that Ceauşescu imposed were not only necessary to provide the funds and material for everything from the House of the People ( to which they would be denied access ) to canals without traffic and power-stations without fuel , but also formed part of the folk-wisdom of tyrants going back much further in history than Ceauşescu 's own model , Stalin .
13 She had nearly had heart failure at the thought of Garry going up there .
14 and you can see the whole game live on Central on Monday afternoon … do n't miss it … now its a bank holiday weekend which means there 's lost of sport going on here 's the best of the action …
15 It 's been found that in Homes where residents are busy or active during the day , with plenty of stimulation , they are more likely to sleep well without drugs , and the rate of bed-wetting goes down dramatically .
16 But you sense that 's only half of it , that there 's some form of exorcism going on here , some sort of expulsion of childhood ghosts .
17 A police investigation at a school for disturbed children has been stepped up after claims of abuse going back more than twenty years .
18 Yet serious research into the history of textiles goes back little more than a century .
19 In the early 1960s a number of economists went so far as to argue that growth had to be export-led [ Kaldor , 1971 ] .
20 Egyptian knowledge of Anatolia went back much further : the Greco-Karian city of Pedasa , just north of Halikarnassus , is mentioned in the Gazetteer of Amenhope ( twelfth century BC ) .
21 The police are now also checking records of indecent assaults in Oxford , to see if the pattern of attacks goes back further than last year .
22 This p this type of reaction goes pretty quickly .
23 Ironically the price of sterling went up so high that it made it very difficult for us to sell our other manufactured goods and many people are now of the belief that because of the North Sea oil price rises , this had an adverse affect on our economy , making it more difficult for us to sell manufacturing goods because the pound was very strong against other currencies .
24 The excitable Delhi poet Mutahhar of Kara went even further : ‘ The moment I entered this blessed building , ’ he writes , ‘ I saw a soul-animating courtyard as wide as the plain of the world .
25 In my youth ( many years ago ) I worked as a redcoat at Butlin 's in Bognor Regis and used to be House Captain of York where we trained teams of holidaymakers to go as fast as possible .
26 So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question .
27 But it was shrewd of Joseph to go temporarily AWOL , absent-without-leave , for he would have been an undoubted target for the flak being hurled by an angry Kinnear .
28 Now er there are lots of things going on here .
29 Of course much of China goes on just the same , shrugging off time .
30 Much of China goes on just the same , shrugging off time , while for Business Studies and Public Relations students life looks pretty rosy .
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