Example sentences of "[vb mod] go [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He was never any trouble but we used to think perhaps he should go out a bit more , ’ say Brian Gedge .
2 " To make sense of it all , I must go back a bit in history , " he said .
3 Back into your document , and we 'll go up a bit .
4 ‘ She 'll go down a treat in Shipley . ’
5 I 'm hoping it , once it 's dried out that 'll go down a bit .
6 Anyway , I 'll go back a bit + explain how I made friends with Sarah .
7 Erm I 'll go back a minute .
8 might go on a bit Shut me gob .
9 ‘ I thought I might go upstream a bit and wash off some of this dirt , ’ she said evenly , fingering her hair distastefully .
10 It 'll be a good three months before she shows , and , with skilful dressing , she could go on a lot longer . ’
11 Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared .
12 There 's too many metal and dirge infested undertones but they 'd go down a storm supporting Silverfish .
13 There 's too many metal and dirge infested undertones but they 'd go down a storm supporting Silverfish .
14 There was some people round here that were selling gear that were n't smack'eads and they 'd do you a lay on without any rings or surety or nothing and you 'd say , well , ‘ Lay us on half a gram and I 'll sell it , like ’ , and they 'd say , ‘ Alright ’ , and then you 'd go back a coupla days later and say , ‘ Look .
15 We used to go once a month you know when the girls were in the Guides , used to go for their parade service and if you were at Auckley , Malcolm and I used to go up with Heidi did n't I ?
16 Very , very high gear on it , we used to go out a couple of us
17 They said well er I thought perhaps he was away preaching , she says oh no they do n't want any of m our people used to go out a lot preaching , but they do n't want any of them now because it 's too deep for them
18 Originally when I first went there I used to go twice a week .
19 Let's go somewhere a bit quieter , ’ said Simon .
20 Right , let's go on a bit further , so we 've just done concussion , compression er the next one is an illness , epilepsy now epilepsy , two types , you get the petit mal which is the small fit and the grand mal which is the erm large fit or the full , full fit .
21 ROS : Let's go back a bit .
22 Let's go back a bit , shall we ?
23 yes , but they do know , le let's go back a bit further , but they do know at the beginning of the world most of it is water
24 ‘ That would go down a treat . ’
25 Try its lively , grassy , gooseberry-like '90 Sauvignon , Vin de Pays du Jardin de la France from Guy Saget ( £3.55 ) that would go down a treat with the Mushroom & Parmesan Risotto ( page 120 ) , or the Lemon & Mustard Mackerel ( page 122 ) .
26 A hatrick of goals tomorrow at Newcastle would go down a treat .
27 A hatrick of goals tomorrow at Newcastle would go down a treat .
28 And I mean I think that if it was spread more I mean if if if people locally gave more to bereaved in their own areas , I mean it would go down a lot more good there .
29 And since it , and the equally giant-size flower platter , are decorated with green-stemmed red roses on a white ground , they would go down a bomb in Blackpool .
30 The task " work out how many shaded squares will go round a line of 50 unshaded squares ' , implicitly suggested the use of a generalization strategy for its completion .
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