Example sentences of "go [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
4 | If it goes down a thirty hole , it 'll be sixty wo n't it cos it 's double score . |
5 | Because of the Government 's apparent lack of enthusiasm for all things European , and their determination to go along a slow track , will not Scotland lose out again without any chance of the central bank being cited in Glasgow or Edinburgh ? |
6 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
7 | But then when it goes just a little bit further . |
8 | ‘ We would like to go over a few points relating to the Livesey murder , ’ Bragg said evenly . |
9 | Oh aye , I said to John I said well I say well how far we 're going cos I 'm not keen on going right a long way |
10 | Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road . |
11 | So if you put a big heavy engine going down a cast iron railway which wo n't |
12 | Going down a sporting memory lane has enticed some 16 million people to pay their cable-TV charge to watch the fight . |
13 | sort of going just a short way along and having to reverse back out again |
14 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
15 | Only time and a falling tide prevented him from going up a nearby church tower and filming us again . |
16 | A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ . |
17 | Er I think I think probably they they 're going up a little bit later so |
18 | One electric lamp the others all be the the butty would have the electric lamp , and he 'd also carry an oil lamp for testing for gas , and er I can remember going nearly a whole shift having to carry this lamp right down on the floor , carry it up into the heading you see ? |
19 | Are we going out a third time ? |
20 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
21 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
22 | They 've discovered we 're the oldest family in the whole county , going back a long way ! |
23 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
24 | It was like going back a hundred years . |
25 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
29 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
30 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |