Example sentences of "go [adv] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 2 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 3 | Above them on a rocky promontory of convenient geology , Jesus kneels in prayer , an exercise that still goes on in some places , though with less agony and less certainty of address . ’ |
| 4 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 5 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 6 | She 's goes along to some illustration out of book and er |
| 7 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 8 | Her cheeks were pink with excitement , her eyes shiny and bright , as though she was getting ready to go off on some adventure . |
| 9 | ‘ Whoever woulda thought a lad could leave such a pretty little gal to go off on some faraway adventure , eh ? ’ |
| 10 | In the latter , emphasis was placed on practical skills such as technical drawing and woodwork , with some pupils going on to some form of technical college but with most leaving at 15 years of age and few if any achieving university entrance . |
| 11 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 12 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 13 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 14 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 15 | I hear his couchée going on for some time . |
| 16 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 17 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 18 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 19 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 20 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 22 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 23 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 24 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 25 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 26 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |
| 27 | Now , it 's going to be a bit scruffy this , and you just try and transcribe it onto that piece of paper so you 're going away with some idea . |
| 28 | Going over to some friends in Stockwood . |
| 29 | It was possible she had never been in a tunnel before , except perhaps in a car going quickly through some underpass . |
| 30 | Shrimp kept going up for some water , trod on Andrew . |