Example sentences of "go [adv] [adv] [conj] a " in BNC.

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1 And the camera goes on there and a wee electric motor over yonder , which drives it around at fifteen degrees per hour , which makes it follow the stars as they move around the sky .
2 ‘ He may have a slight tear in his cartilage , and he will be going home so that a probe can be inserted into his knee to see the extent of the damage and what needs to be done .
3 1980–83 — disco goes back underground and a new electronic sound emerges .
4 One of the most famous food shops in the country is to close , ending a slice of history which goes back more than a hundred years .
5 It was an odd foursome indeed but rehearsals at Manchester 's Twilight Studios went incredibly well and a live set was swiftly formulated .
6 Would this have gone on forever if a grey-eyed inglésa had not stormed into our lives ? ’
7 We went astray once but a man on a mule appeared and redirected us , and a solitary house provided welcome tea .
8 Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up .
9 Went up there the following day and they came back armed with all sorts of things — knives and cudgels — and they went up there and a real fight developed .
10 Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up .
11 " shall I go as fast as a whirlwind , as fast as thought , or as fast as a bird ? "
12 One piece of good news is that Clinton has stated that he will not go as far as a recent legislative proposal , which would have required certain foreign-owned firms and branches to report a minimum amount of US taxable income .
13 They had not gone very far when a great brightness showed over the mountains beyond the forest , and suddenly in front of them they saw a beautiful young man , all dressed in gold , with a scarlet lining to his cloak .
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