Example sentences of "go [adv] a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 2 | ‘ We would like to go over a few points relating to the Livesey murder , ’ Bragg said evenly . |
| 3 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
| 4 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 5 | Going back a few years , Treasure Hunting , January 1983 issue , contains an article concerning a button that had been found , and requested information on the unit mentioned . |
| 6 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 7 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
| 8 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
| 9 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
| 10 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 11 | To understand how these families , regarded by their Orcadian neighbours as good , clean-living people , came to be at the centre of such serious allegations , it is necessary to go back a few years . |
| 12 | Decisions or plans that went awry a few weeks ago may now right themselves and the momentum of life steps up markedly . |
| 13 | And so we did this and we had this bungalow at Mablethorpe which is still running , we 've been down , we went down a few weeks ago . |
| 14 | She had to take a walk down a short corridor from the main hallway , go down a few steps to the kitchen . |
| 15 | Okay , so she 's gone down a few orifices in her time , but if anyone calls her a hookworm I 'll burst their intestines . |
| 16 | And while th they 're down there , can they put a co re-bend that cornerstone , we used to have a cornerstone , it 's got pushed into the dike , and it 's gone down a few yards |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll come , ’ said Karr , but he was gone only a few moments . |
| 18 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
| 19 | But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip . |
| 20 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
| 21 | The voltage on the power panel which the Object Management Group has planned for its Object World expo later this month just went up a few notches : Lotus ' John Landry could n't make it so they got Sun 's Bill Joy as a substitute . |
| 22 | We went up a few steps and into a small majlis which was nearly choked by deep couches pushed against its walls . |
| 23 | ‘ George Graham says they can go up a few gears for the replay , but we 'll wait and see . |
| 24 | You could indeed , you could indeed it it reinforces a point does n't it , so I mean I so went back a few times with the flipchart yesterday with things that we need to re reinforce yes ? |
| 25 | Go back a few chapters , visit Jesus in Kaburdian and Galilee . |
| 26 | Tyler and I go back a few years . |
| 27 | If we go back a few years , I do n't know how many people remember before we had DOPACS , I remember when projects used to come into the group from on high , they used to filter through the organization , until they landed on somebody 's desk who was actually supposed to carry out the work . |
| 28 | You held your hand still on the page and you traced around each finger , and all the little contours of your finger joints were captured , and you would go around a few times , and each time the pencil was at a slightly different angle , so you got this aura of your hand , that was so much more accurate than you could ever draw , and all you had to do was put in the fingernails and the little wrinkles on the backs of your fingers and you really had something ? |