Example sentences of "[vb past] go [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Switch off engine , ’ Dick commanded , and she let go the red button . |
| 2 | Trent waited until the catamaran was pointing downriver , then he let go the stern line , pulling it in and coiling it down . |
| 3 | But he said : ’ You endeavoured to go a long way to cover your tracks by disposing of the apparatus . |
| 4 | Naturally , he was speechless with rage and he seemed to go a funny colour , rather like the top range of a steel tempering chart — cherry red . |
| 5 | But in this case , the evidence seemed to go the other way , and was the express reason why the magistrates dismissed the charges . |
| 6 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 7 | She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . |
| 8 | And we 'd gone a roundabout way the last time we were there and I thought oh I 'll give it a go , anyway I walked straight down this road , have a look oh yes , turn up here anyway I , I sort of got me bearings and I thought oh yes it 's just down here he 's in the field just down there . |
| 9 | When he 'd gone the Annamese woman turned to stare apprehensively at her husband . |
| 10 | With the first of the ovens he 'd gone the long way through to the Hall 's kitchens , taking in the sights as he went . |
| 11 | He 'd gone the last time , he reminded her , because of Lowell 's hands — well , partly . |
| 12 | On a day when rain wrecked the second day 's play in matches up and down the country only three got going the Pakistani pace ace bagged five for 60 to help shoot out the visitors for 166 , a deficit of 116 . |
| 13 | Mortified by the twist in his sobriety , George decided to go the whole hog and join the Total Abstinence Society . |
| 14 | While the masses and nomenklatura flocked in their hundreds of thousands to Glazunov 's exhibitions and he lived lavishly in Moscow , he ably kept going a parallel reputation for dissidence : ‘ [ He ] has been a lifetime opponent of Soviet authority , and his art has always defied the politics and prejudices of his time ’ . |
| 15 | Taking a deep breath we elected to go the whole hog and print 16 pages . |
| 16 | Mind you , Ralph did go the whole hog with it : he got Gaby Sturmer as PR doing photographs and write-ups and turned out some lovely leaflets . |
| 17 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 18 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 19 | ‘ I was n't sure about making the sharp turn into the fifth fence , but Ted told me I had to go the fast way everywhere otherwise I had no hope of winning , ’ Mac said . |
| 20 | Mr Patten told legislators : ‘ We wished to go the extra mile and give the Chinese side every opportunity to respond . |
| 21 | By the middle of the fourth century , Christianity had gone a long way towards assimilating the dominant culture of pagan Romans . |
| 22 | She had gone a long way , when she came to a big foot . |
| 23 | Teclis was stronger now , the potions of the Loremasters had gone a long way towards giving him mortal strength . |
| 24 | By the 1680s the old-fashioned cavalry of the pomeshchiks had disappeared as an independent force , the streltsy were restricted to internal policing duties , and Muscovy had gone a long way towards establishing a professional army . |
| 25 | She had gone a long way towards admitting that the King could not live of his own . |
| 26 | They had gone a long way without her even knowing it and they were riding beside the lake she had seen from the air . |
| 27 | She had been one of them once , but suddenly she had gone a long way away . |
| 28 | After they had gone a complete silence that only reflected itself settled down like lead and was broken only by the sound of Moran removing his boots to go to bed early . |
| 29 | He was pointing at his chest which had gone a bright shade of orange . |
| 30 | Leeds , before the game , had gone a full season , plus three games without registering an away win — a total of 24 games . |