Example sentences of "and go [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your call is free and goes to a central advisory unit rather than to your local Social Security office . |
| 2 | Alice , 12 , the youngest daughter of Mr Patten and his wife Lavender , lives with her parents at Government House , and goes to a local English school . |
| 3 | There was a long pause from my point of view , while the lights began flickering in the office and the train exceedingly slowly reversed , before stopping again and going into a sudden jerk . |
| 4 | Naturally , such matters were kept from a little girl ; there was only the squalling of the new baby upstairs , the coming and going of a starched nurse , the funeral — the black ostrich feathers on the horses ’ heads intrigued Dinah , who felt no grief at all for the occasionally met-with , plaintive lady who had , as they put it , passed away — and the sound of one 's own voice , strong and resonant in the empty room . |
| 5 | Nicola 's voice was coming and going like a tricky radio signal ; she could feel a stinging dampness where her calves had dragged over the rough brickwork atop the wall . |
| 6 | From now on smokers must clock out and go to a special room for each cigarette break . |
| 7 | After gorging itself it would lie down and go into a digestive torpor , and could alternately eat and doze over a period of several weeks . |
| 8 | ‘ I can recognise the warning signs straight away — I start to tremble and go into a cold sweat , ’ explains Philippa . |
| 9 | The main features of tabes are an inability to balance when the eyes are shut , numbness , and ‘ tingling ’ sensations , ‘ lightning pains ’ , which are sharp , shooting pains , usually in the lower limbs , which may come and go in a short time or last for several days without remission . |
| 10 | Erm there 's also a very strange statement in paragraph which says that the nineteen sixty eight act is intended to provide a network of sites to enable gypsies to move around or settle , but in practice many gypsies are settled on permanent sites and it seems to me that that is the logical result of having insufficient pitches in that if th you know there are n't enough pitches for you , you are not going to get up and go from a permanent that you 've been living on and move off in case you ca n't one somewhere else and that seems to be the inevitable logic of the government 's own failure to make sure that there is adequate provisions in local sites . |
| 11 | If the possibility appeals , make sure you take advice first from an accountant on the tax implications and go through a reputable property agent to handle the short-term rental contract . |
| 12 | Chub do have their days when the old grey matter works overtime and you will have to put on your own thinking cap and go through a whole array of angling techniques , usual and offbeat ones , before you hit on the right one to catch him . |
| 13 | Turn right onto it and go through a large gate by the army range notices . |
| 14 | DEC perhaps captured the expectation best : ‘ Do you think he could buy himself a plane ticket and go on a personal tour of all of us — IBM , Hewlett-Packard , Sun Microsystems Inc , DEC — and bring us together in kind of an Open Software Foundation II with all of the chief executives on the same dais saying the past is behind us ? ’ |
| 15 | For example , you may like to swim on Mondays and Fridays , play squash on Wednesdays , and go for a long brisk walk or jog on Saturdays and Sundays . |
| 16 | Ooh I 'll carry on watching this and go for a bloody shower ! |
| 17 | Anyone who thinks owning a diesel spells the end of driving fun , should park their backside in the AX 's comfortable , supportive driver 's seat and go for a quick ride . |
| 18 | It is acidic , hence the rhododendron ; gardeners with limy or heavy clay soil could substitute yellow-flowered Mahonia japonica , and go for a lively contrast . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought to myself , Martha must be growing up now , it 's time she left the country and came to live with me and go to a good school . ’ |
| 20 | I do n't know if you realize what hell it is to leave the life one leads , and go to a new city where one knows no-one and nowhere to go . |
| 21 | On Wednesday last I had an interview with the Archbishop and he asked me to leave Kidlington and go to a vacant parish in Birmingham ( Rednal ) where a friend of mine had died recently . |
| 22 | You either stand up and walk out and go to a different class , or you join in . |
| 23 | Know the tricks of the trade and go from a bare-face start to a beautiful finish . |
| 24 | The moment she hit one of the papers , she braked and went into a long skid , sliding right across the kitchen floor to the other wall , which she thumped into , still standing on her ‘ magic carpet ’ . |
| 25 | Through the gate and over the lumpy ground , and she opened the door and went into a long drill hall with a clacking wooden floor . |
| 26 | He found the house that he was looking for and went into a long , low room . |
| 27 | Shikampur kept his advantage as Richards roused his mount to full steam , and a quarter of a mile out Pinza swept past and went into a decisive lead . |
| 28 | This over-the-head version weighed only 14 oz and went into a neat little stuff sack . |
| 29 | As I was putting the thermometer back in its case the calf suddenly toppled over and went into a frothing convulsion . |
| 30 | I dined four times at various places and went to a drunk party at Worcester in someone 's rooms I did not know . |