Example sentences of "people go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often people go on to say something apparently absurd like , ‘ But he said he 'd be home early tonight , ’ or ‘ But he never said goodbye ’ , as though in some way the person concerned knew he was going to die . |
| 2 | All able-bodied people go on about how horrible the changing-room experience is — how awful because my bra is dirty , or I 'm too fat or too thin — but disabled girls : how do you even begin to assess your own emotions on entering a changing room with young able-bodied women , most of them slim but all saying , ‘ Oh , I 've got a horrible body ’ , when you 're in a wheelchair , just wanting to try on a pair of trousers ? |
| 3 | But then people go on about his past , the drug dealing and that . |
| 4 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 5 | A fast-growing proportion of young people go on to higher education ; and we want to see that proportion rise still further . |
| 6 | But in spite of the unhappy marriages , people go on marrying and remarrying , do n't they ? |
| 7 | Oh yes er a local people coming home always like to take farmhouse cheese away and Orkney people go on away on holiday again like to take ones off to their friends and relatives in the south too . |
| 8 | Is n't that more or less how most people go on ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ People go on about my goalscoring now and expect me to score in every game now I 've hit a purple patch . |
| 10 | We shall go on expanding higher and further education to ensure more of our young people go on to college as naturally as they once went down the pit or onto the shop floor . |
| 11 | I mean if if presumably people go on being born there surely we should leave them . |
| 12 | Some people go round |
| 13 | He does n't , he does n't when i , when just ordinary people go round do they ? |
| 14 | The stages that people go through during a transition are well charted ( see figure ) . |
| 15 | and outside where those students sit , I thought the young people were when you read some of that in paper the cigarette ends and crisp packets , well that can only be the students , I mean people go through but they 're not |
| 16 | Subtle but damning variations of idiolect are unlikely to count for much in a country where people go around wearing tee-shirts inscribed with things like ‘ The essence of brave 's aerial adventure : the flight 's academy of the American east club with the traditional gallery of Great Britain diesel ’ . |
| 17 | never , I mean some people go around just like twins do n't they ? |
| 18 | Erm , people go around trying to get data for the er , subject for discussion , and if it 's rain , they do n't find any proper average of the |
| 19 | My own research with young people in Edinburgh and Lothian Region has placed such problems squarely in the context of adult violence to children in public places and pointed to the frequency with which young people go around in gangs or carry weapons usually as a response — however ill-judged — to crimes they suffer . |
| 20 | As a film like Scandal , which dealt with the Profumo affair , might make young people go back and check out more about what was happening in the early sixties , so I was doing the same in terms of the fifties . |
| 21 | How many people go back home and say I had an affair ? |
| 22 | As people go back to normal life , we 're left with the consequences . |
| 23 | As it is , the majority of people go down to Florence to work . |
| 24 | I detest Picasso 's farsightedness when he declared : ‘ On my death , it will be like a shipwreck , and when a large ship is wrecked a lot of people go down with it ’ . |
| 25 | Other people go down with it . |
| 26 | Oh there 's people go down the Chinese with letters and the boy 'll give it to me erm can I have so and so , so and so , so and so , so and so , I 'll pay you tomorrow when get paid . |
| 27 | There are other ways in which people go about recognizing socially this significant event in their lives . |
| 28 | ‘ I quite enjoy watching all the people go by , ’ says Howard , ‘ and wondering what 's going on inside their heads . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah but why should bloody intelligent people go along with it Ken ? |
| 30 | ‘ Well , some people go off to El Vino 's or the Falstaff . |