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 . |