Example sentences of "[vb -s] go [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Yeah right it ca n't get out it has to go down the pipe . |
2 | Well if you rung you could always say oh I 'll have to go cos somebody at the door if she starts going on a bit long . |
3 | ( It has gone up a bit since then , but not back to the post-1945 level . ) |
4 | The size of the speaker has gone up a notch here to 10″ , with the dimension of the ports increased accordingly . |
5 | Things have really taken off , our whole output has gone up a notch . |
6 | ‘ He has gone down a treat with the members , who have a lot of affection for him , ’ he said . |
7 | ‘ Biochemistry , I see Mrs Hayman 's cholesterol has gone down a bit — Lizzie 's chest X-ray — haematology , Betty 's haemoglobin 's not too good — oh , the Hazell family 's tissue-typing results — ’ She gazed at them shaking her head sadly . |
8 | I 'm quite happy to see if we can what we can do , I ca n't guarantee that my Right Honourable Friend will take a different view , but I 'm content to see what we can do and report if your Lordships think that that is suitable , but if we were to do that My Lord , I think it would mean erm er it would mean that all these amendments which are grouped together should not in fact be , be put t to the vote , I mean that means ever er er all your Lordships because I do n't think it would be very fair if I were to say that I would move mine and the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh were c to come along and move his amendment and mine meanwhile has gone down the drainpipe and I do n't think that that would be particularly funny , but the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh I 'm sure would n't do such a dastardly thing like that ! |
9 | Hughie said : ‘ You can say that shipbuilding in Whitby has gone down the sewer . |
10 | Los Angeles , California-based Tiger Media , the multimedia authoring start-up , has gone down the tubes : its venture capitalists sold off the assets last month to New Hampshire-based AimTech Inc , a PC company . |
11 | It 's of course only to be expected that people should moan about the tax they 've got to pay and people always complain that it seems to go up every year . |
12 | And then if your blood pressure does go down a bit it does n't matter cos you 're lying down . |
13 | Yeah , it 's gone round a bit now . |
14 | So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot . |
15 | ‘ Tracker 's gone up the line . |
16 | Well we was coming down , now the cooker 's gone up the Swannee ! |
17 | And er certainly Amanda who who 's on strike then you know I mean they do n't get equal pay the women the the the three women that came out I mean one of them 's gone back an Amanda and Helen you know I mean they they were on they were on terribly low wages . |
18 | ‘ Only one thing about that pool , ’ Hugh said , depositing Jacqueline wrapped in a damp towel like a warm parcel in his wife 's arms , ‘ the tide 's gone down a bit . |
19 | Petrol 's gone down a bit . |
20 | But it 's gone down a lot . |
21 | Yes it was sort of my library book 's gone down the back of my cupboard mummy ! |
22 | So I think the people who say , ‘ Oh , he 's gone down the Swanee , he 's talking pop , or he 's writing children 's books , or he 's waving his hands on television , ’ balderdash as far as they 're concerned , I think they 're , they 're just being very stupid . |