Example sentences of "go [to-vb] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 2 | Now I 'm going to pull down a whole pile of these things and make a nest out of them so we 'll be warm and cosy until we 're rescued from each other . ’ |
| 3 | I 'm going to write up a suggested arrangement on the board now . |
| 4 | If you do n't tell them that you 're going to pick up a thirty five percent deposit cheque . |
| 5 | I am going to set up a two foot tank . |
| 6 | I am going to set up a two foot tank . |
| 7 | The commission is now going to set up a special working group to look at the problem . |
| 8 | ‘ And you 're not going to grow up an Irish yob ! |
| 9 | ‘ And anyway , Marius said this boy was coming over and he was going to draw up a new will , and would we witness it ? … ’ |
| 10 | I 'm going to put up a good fight . |
| 11 | But we are going to stretch out a fraternal hand to the Ukrainian workers and tell them that , together with them , we are going to fight against our bourgeoisie and theirs . |
| 12 | Not a lot of weight as you imagine because they 're all little tiny sprigs this high , and obviously what they are going to do , they were being taken to south Wales where they going to start off a new little forest presumably . |
| 13 | Now it 's my turn to perform that task and I am sure you are all going to turn over a new leaf and make things easy for me . |
| 14 | And if I 'd known he was going to turn out a stupid and objectionable youth I 'd never have employed the foolish boy . |
| 15 | This week , in fact tomorrow , I 'm going to splash out an unbelievable amount of money and buy a transcription machine . |
| 16 | What firm is going to take on an untrained man in his forties at a time when it is being forced to lay off people who have been with their business for years ? |
| 17 | But what I had also noticed was that certain firms for example that w were er th then extant , er they in fact would s er say have a three-piece moved , and you 'd have a huge van would go to pick up a three-piece suite . |
| 18 | ‘ Not the sort of place you 'd go to pick up a new ribbon ? ’ |
| 19 | Some of these rules are concerned with the different components which go to make up a traditional story — the kind of story which is orally handed down from generation to generation . |
| 20 | With stupefaction one thinks of the wholesale slaughter of ducks and chickens , of pheasant and quail , the shiploads of Dover sole and the immense cargoes of foie gras from France , of caviare from Russia , the crates of champagne and the tons of truffles , which went to make up a single day 's entertainment in the great hotels of Europe . |
| 21 | A word here in passing about what actually goes to make up a typical volcanic eruption cloud . |