Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] go [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes when I was drunk and I 'd see him standing there looking all quiet and black and white and gorgeous , waiting for someone to take him home , I 'd get all teary and want to go up and slap him and shout in his face : How can you possibly understand what it means ! |
2 | subject I sometimes wonder if sometimes the Tory politicians are like Jehovah 's Witnesses really , they sort of set out into battle and say go out and convert these people , we 're gon na slam the door on them . |
3 | And so they sat with clammy hands for an hour and a half and let go only when the lights came back on . |
4 | In the end , they make the same decision as most others and decide to go ahead and have children , and to try to reconcile this with their material aspirations . |
5 | But I also seem to remember rows , and Motherdear going on and on and on — she has that way , you know : she just gets a subject , and worries it to death and beyond , never giving up , like a dog with a dirty old carcass . |
6 | If there is a problem with an employee 's attendance , counselling is the first option because it is more expensive to sack someone , particularly at the professional level , and have to go out and recruit a new employee . ’ |
7 | How many cards have you spent hours punching out , only to find that you have a mistake and need to go back and stick tape over some holes to avoid the mistake being knitted . |