Example sentences of "[pron] goes [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oldest tradition , which goes back to the contemporary historian John Foxe , claims that the queen and her Protestant councillors had intended to introduce a settlement based on the 1552 Prayer Book , but were later forced to make some concessions in the Catholic direction because of the implacable opposition of the bishops and some of the lay peers in the House of Lords . |
| 2 | This is a process which goes back to the two questions raised on page 66 : |
| 3 | Doubling in Dostoevsky , which goes back to the very beginning , to Mr Devushkin living and not living in the kitchen , which has its post-Siberian developments in the underground man 's now-you-see-me-now-you-don't ‘ flashing ’ of his consciousness , in Raskolnikov 's and Svidrigailov 's different ways of being among but not with us and Porfiry 's torture tune of ‘ There 's nothing here , precisely nothing , perhaps absolutely nothing ’ — doubling takes on a new form in The Possessed , closer to the I/We/They/Everybody/Nobody shifts of The House of the Dead than anything else before it or to come . |
| 4 | So she goes up to the first man and she goes , hi , handsome , and he goes , hello , hello and he 's erected , right . |
| 5 | And she goes up to the two blokes and she grabs them by the balls and goes mm not bad , nice butt , you know ? |
| 6 | And judges Sir John Harvey-Jones and foot writer Jocelyn Dimbleby with presenter Loyd Grossman have to choose the winner who goes through to the final ‘ cook-off ’ in July . |
| 7 | The winners of the best gross trophy then decide , either by mutual agreement or by a play-off , on the player who goes on to the national championships . |
| 8 | When one goes back to the real time in which we live , however , there will still appear to be singularities . |
| 9 | Our own sauces , or whatever , erm , if my mother makes a cake , it goes on to the top shelf , but usually we just use everything . |
| 10 | But , you know they can pick it and er , it just flashes up and they have to put the right answer in , if they get the right answer it it goes on to the next one , if it |
| 11 | erm Lewes has only had a mayoralty for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye where it goes back to the thirteenth , fourteenth centuries and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 12 | Probably , someone you would disapprove of I did n't know whether remember no probably not it goes back to the middle ages . |
| 13 | It goes back to the second world war , really . |
| 14 | Lewes has only had a mayor or two for a hundred years , and so its ceremonial is somewhat new , but one was able to draw on the traditions in places like Rye , where it goes back to the thirteenth/fourteenth centuries , and erm I used some of the phraseologies out of sixteenth century Rye documents and so on in my Lewes mayoralty on these sorts of ceremonial occasions , and introduced some of the ceremonial which I knew was authentic to mayoralties elsewhere in Sussex . |
| 15 | and then , once you 've claimed , it goes back to the original figure . |
| 16 | It goes back to the short term thing , you fear that they do n't do it as well . |
| 17 | It goes back to the 1969 Magritte exhibition , also curated by Sylvester , to which the Menil lent a number of works . |
| 18 | Just to mention one more thing the force video , a number of community affairs staff have mentioned to me that it 's out of date cos it goes back to the previous organisation |
| 19 | It goes back to the fifties when the local authority , in this case the Worthing Rural District Council would not approve the plan for a small development A Twenty Seven in near the roundabout at Manor . |
| 20 | It 's it 's er , the travellers tradition and it goes back to the old tradition of the Scottish people as well |
| 21 | ‘ It goes back to the old OSS days and the crusade we were running against Hitler along with your SOE and Dot Tuckey and people like that . |
| 22 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 23 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 24 | The world of motor racing loves to surround itself in secrecy … what goes in to the automatic gearboxes … suspensions and highly tuned engines is more to do with science than sport … |