Example sentences of "could go [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You still could go bloody shop where yours is .
2 You could go moped racing in a Barbour suit . ’
3 could go deaf , if I could go selectively deaf , then I 'll be alright
4 You see , neither commodity could go stale .
5 ‘ Anyway , I did n't give it to you so you could go drippy on me .
6 Kings Fountain could go close under top weight .
7 You could go mad there .
8 And I said , tell me what I said to you ? heard you talking to me then you know she could go mad !
9 The leaflets , softer in tone than much of the BMA campaign , suggest that hospitals that fail to compete in the new NHS market could go bankrupt ; GPs will be forced to compete for patients , with those that take on more having less time for patients ; while ‘ opted out ’ hospitals may drop some specialist services if they are not financially viable .
10 Pundits of the travel scene were heard suggesting ( and exaggerating ) that as many as 200 to 300 travel firms could go bankrupt if things went badly .
11 Nino came through to the third jump off but only one , Germany 's Frank Sloothaak , on the high jump specialist Optiebeurs Golo , could go clear again .
12 For the client , the advantage was that he could go direct to those various tradesmen who , collectively , could provide all that made for an average funeral .
13 Nimbus customers will go to SunSoft for an operating system and could go direct to the semiconductor houses for CPU chips .
14 The thought that Ace could go bad rankled him for some reason , and he mouthed a silent prayer that her judgment would remain sound .
15 But even if , for sound economic reasons , bargaining about a new , looser Yugoslavia starts in earnest , much could go wrong .
16 It could go wrong simply if asset prices began to fall or if cash flows ebbed .
17 In fact just about everything that could go wrong went wrong .
18 I did n't think we could go wrong .
19 Simple in theory , yet in practice much could go wrong .
20 Then you usually lie there just staring at the ceiling , thinking about everything that could go wrong .
21 Alas , however , we speak here of a democracy of those with the least sense of urgency to correct what is wrong , the best insulation through short-run comfort from what could go wrong — a democracy run by and for the contented majority , in which those who do not share in its benefits do not participate .
22 At times I become so obsessive about the dangers that I find myself making lists of what could go wrong .
23 Each surgeon has his own way of doing things and I know something could go wrong .
24 No one could go wrong with frozen ready-prepared Kievs .
25 choosing among alternative ways of providing care , anticipating what could go wrong and juggling resources in emergencies ;
26 There are any number of things that could go wrong and the only way to discover them is to discuss with the parents exactly what they did .
27 ‘ We had to make sure they did n't think we were a bunch of supermen and that they were aware that things could go wrong , ’ said a source .
28 Dave added : ‘ Everything that could go wrong did go wrong .
29 So many things could go wrong , and it is the job of the regulating authorities to prevent this .
30 So erm yes there is the risk that the French , one of the French power stations could go wrong and it would affect southern England .
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