Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I tried to go as fast as I could , but it was easy to let the sail out and slow down if I felt I was getting out of control . |
| 2 | The crashing seemed to go on forever as tiny broken fragments bounced with a dainty tinkle across the brick floor . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it was after we 'd talked a bit and then played a bit our personalities seemed to go well together and our playing did as well . |
| 4 | I thought you 'd gone up there and got it . |
| 5 | Ernie 's companions seemed to think he 'd gone far enough and were trying to distract his attention when a newcomer pushed his way into the group . |
| 6 | Henry seemed to feel he 'd gone far enough and backed off . |
| 7 | Benny turned to go back home as usual . |
| 8 | There is not much evidence that real wages in Europe began to go up significantly until the later part of the 1860s , but even before then the general feeling that times were improving was unmistakable in the developed countries , the contrast with the disturbed and desperate 1830s and 1840s was palpable . |
| 9 | However , since I was very keen , I decided to go even better and invest in a macro lens . |
| 10 | Yes , like many of the others , I happen to be one of the ones who did go up there and take a look at it , erm , at the time , and I hope that the motion as er , not only to the county archivist but all the staff over there for the very hard work and diligent work of which they put in . |
| 11 | True , on the first working day after the bomb , business did go on much as usual . |
| 12 | Well everyone 'll do it , everyone did go home eventually and their wages , cos there was there was two of us , I told you did n't I , there was two of us that worked it out . |
| 13 | Cos if you g if anybody go down there now they could see where what we call the Pier Head , so ships had to go up there and turn in to the lock gate . |
| 14 | Er and we were getting the impression then we were only , not wanting to decry them Bettaware salesmen or Bettaware people , you had to go round now and stick catalogues through people 's doors and go back and |
| 15 | I did n't sign on or claim money or nothing , so I had to go out there and steal to get money in my pocket and clothes on my back . |
| 16 | ‘ I had to go there anyway and I saw it . |
| 17 | They took it out and sort of temporarily fixed it in so that they could get this out at the funeral and then he had to go back later and fix the window in . |
| 18 | And I joined the the engineer 's union , one Saturday night in Newark , had to go back there and they had meetings in the townhall , a room that was hired and er was er particulars taken and I 've been in ever since . |
| 19 | When she was discharged , she had to go home alone because no one had told her family . |
| 20 | The barge-owners had to go as far as the brewery wharf across Maurice 's foredeck and over a series of gangplanks which connected them with their own boats . |
| 21 | Many countries , including the Scandinavians , Portugal and Greece , wished to go no further than traditional inter-governmental co-operation in Europe , preserving the sovereignty and independence of member states . |
| 22 | It was the dances she 'd invented herself which she wished to go out alone and show the House . |
| 23 | So anyway , I said to her the week before last when he went up on the Sunday , I said go up there and say to her |
| 24 | so I said go on then so he said , well he |
| 25 | The pathology lab 288 had kicked off with the first of the parties , and everything had gone pretty well although nobody had wanted to touch the sandwiches . |
| 26 | Nothing had gone well personally or politically . |
| 27 | John Matthews , chairman of the CIA energy committee , said that a recent CIA investment survey had shown that although investment had dropped from £2000m in 1991 to £1600m–£1800m in 1992 , the amount invested in health , safety and the environment had gone up considerably and the amount invested in energy efficiency had remained level . |
| 28 | By the spring of 1993 at least nine republics or regions within the Russian Federation were insisting that their own laws took precedence over those of the Federation as a whole , and the Chechen republic had gone still further and declared itself a fully independent state . |
| 29 | She knew she had gone too far when his eyes narrowed to glittering blue slits . |
| 30 | John Piper had seen the Diaghilev Ballet in his twenties , had gone as often as possible because ‘ the excitement — the tinge of exultation — in the dancing married to modern music and modern art , worked in my blood and bones . ’ |