Example sentences of "go [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hiss go the pistons and down comes the slab of steel . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , when they 're there , living in , the nice little brown envelope with the weekly giro cheque arrives in their name ; and when they go the authorities depend on the dependents to pay off the debts . |
| 3 | In go the Pyramids , Atlantis , the Holy Grail , the Knights Templar , the Freemasons , Napoleon , the Paris Metro map , Hitler , Ayers Rock and , unfortunately , much more besides ; out comes a dread secret to do with control of the ‘ telluric currents ’ which cause earthquakes or continental drift or something ; not that it much matters , since they made it all up . |
| 4 | Go the motorways though , if you can . |
| 5 | Mrs Polinski ’ , go the introductions at one party ) and uses comedy to make the serious point that politics kill literature . |
| 6 | Out go the lights in Times Square and Piccadilly Circus and all the cinemas close down , and the IBM typewriters stop chattering , and the computer screens go blank . |
| 7 | Sensible and necessary price increases none the less attracted a predictably irresponsible press reaction , with Conservative newspapers bearing anti-nationalisation headlines such as ‘ You own the electricity industry — AND UP GO THE PRICES ’ . |
| 8 | Ang go the fools among . |
| 9 | ‘ To the victors go the spoils , ’ intones Minna , with an outrageous wink . |
| 10 | When Italian voters go the polls today they will have a bewildering array of 116 parties to choose from , including the Movement in Defence of Motorists , the League of Housewives and Pensioners and , of course , the Party of Love , headed by Italy 's self-styled porno star , Moana Pozzi — who has recently taken over the mantle from her screen colleague and Member of Parliament , Ilona Staller , La Cicciolina , who is taking time off from politics to have a baby . |
| 11 | ‘ Faster go the drums , faster spin the dancers , rush torches show off the paint and the sweat on them — they begin to smash small bottles of some holy liquid and first stab themselves with the broken glass — with no apparent injury , they do not even bleed — and then they eat the glass itself . |
| 12 | And so on and so on for another hour and a half , sweating and dazed , until at 4.48 a.m. , extremely painfully , out comes young Tom ( not such a bad name ; commonplace , I know ) , emerging head looking like a terrifically cross blue Brussels sprout , splosh go the fluids , splat goes the placenta and there he is . |
| 13 | ‘ Out go the Etonians . |
| 14 | Listen : there go the goats , the faint arrhythmia of the bells on their collars , led by the white-clad peasant . |
| 15 | Down each evening go the indiscretions , the jealousies , the blunders and miscalculations . |
| 16 | There 's no nudity of men right , it 's all nudity of women , like when Sharon Stone sits there with her legs her open and she ai n't go no knickers on . |