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 | This loss of faith goes far deeper among the young than the old . |
| 5 | In the early 1960s a number of economists went so far as to argue that growth had to be export-led [ Kaldor , 1971 ] . |
| 6 | This p this type of reaction goes pretty quickly . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The scene dealing with her adoration of Christ went no further than ‘ a few motions of the lips ’ — St Theresa 's moment of ecstasy was rendered by the image of Christ 's hand closing over hers . |
| 11 | And do a lot of people go abroad now do you think from the factory ? |
| 12 | The Labour Party argued that a two-thirds majority of those voting , or a simple majority of those on the register , should be required , and the National Union of Teachers went even further with its suggestion that opting out should be allowed only if two-thirds of those on the register approved it . |
| 13 | However , for the best effect , you do need to work out the right size and shape for your arrangement , choose appropriate containers and know which colours of flowers go well together . |
| 14 | The state is , in effect , assuming a parental responsibility , although the role of the state in the education of children goes much further than that , of course . |
| 15 | Accordingly when a pare of men went underground formerly , they made it a rule , to sleep out a candle , before they set about their work ; that is if their place of work was dry , they would lay themselves down and sleep , as long as a whole candle would continue burning ; and then rise up and work for two or three hours pretty briskly ; after that have a touch pipe , that is rest themselves for half an hour to smoke a pipe of tobacco , and so play and sleep away half their working time : but mining being more expensive than it formerly was , those idle customs are superseded by more labour and industry . |
| 16 | The delay had been caused by one set of papers going temporarily astray in the post . |
| 17 | Part of the three-year letter of intent went so far as to say — this is quite astonishing that for an initial period , which as far as I can recollect was never defined , British Rail should subsidise bus services because buses were being substituted for trains . |
| 18 | Plenty of time to go quietly upstairs , take the key down from behind the faded watercolour of the lakes of Killarney , and slip it into the lock of her dead mother 's bedroom . |
| 19 | ’ And off Paddy went once more into his professional mumble . |
| 20 | His interview with Law went as badly as it is easily possible to imagine . |
| 21 | A spokesman for the AA Roadwatch unit said : ‘ There have been lots of shunts with people going too fast and being unable to handle their car . |
| 22 | This , I think , with respect goes too far . ’ |
| 23 | Like all withdrawals , the conversion of Empire into Commonwealth went far faster than was prudent or planned , thanks to American impatience , and to the hostility of the Communist and the Third World states . |
| 24 | Taking up residence in Colchester went very well — though I was a bit surprised to find that the ‘ de-skilling ’ process mentioned by the resettlement officer had indeed affected me to some extent . |
| 25 | In the drive to make whole or , at least , a bit more whole , partners may need to regress in order to go forward again . |
| 26 | The ten day celebrations commemorating the 150th anniversary of railways arriving in Taunton went very well over the final weekend with a feast of motive power seen on the West Somerset Railway . |
| 27 | Police blamed the crash on drivers going too fast and too close in freezing fog . |
| 28 | Ninety per cent of accidents are caused by people going too fast and there is never , never an excuse for speed . |