Example sentences of "go [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So , when the bombs start to go off the Western press will put it down to hard-liner elements still yearning for the days before Gorbachev arrived . |
| 2 | Also , it could give my guests time to go off the whole idea . |
| 3 | But it 's also normal to go off the whole idea . |
| 4 | There is just one observation I wish to make to the Committee this afternoon and it actually goes about the whole issue of the planning aspect of what 's gone on . |
| 5 | If only … if only … if only there could be some way of reaching agreement , some way of reassuring each player that the other can be trusted not to go for the selfish jackpot , some way of policing the agreement . |
| 6 | If that question is applied to the hard track arid gets a positive answer then it is no longer enough to go for the easy choice . |
| 7 | Why was it everyone seemed to go for the easy way out ? |
| 8 | ‘ Not sure , really , though the little ones tend to go for the easy stuff . |
| 9 | However erm if if you as a panel are one minded to go for the new settlement option and two , er minded to make a ren recommendation about particular geographical locations or sectors , erm I for one would be very concerned that this would be done on the basis of of insufficient technical erm information . |
| 10 | Mayson was denied his hat-trick by good ‘ keeping and twice Smyth was through , only to go for the unselfish option when perhaps a shot would have been better . |
| 11 | Though physically a lightly built rugby player , he never hesitated to go for the top league and would be bounced and shaken regularly . |
| 12 | When the first contestant to go for the top prize , Marine Captain Richard MacCutchin who , oddly , specialized in haute cuisine , pulled it off by describing the ingredients of a royal banquet given by George VI to the president of France , three-quarters of American television sets were tuned in to watch him wrestle for the answers . |
| 13 | Choukeir will now decide whether to go for the French equivalent of an appeal ; a cancellation in the Supreme Court . |
| 14 | To go for the lapidary effect as such is sterile ; one tries for the lapidary because , if achieved , it is a guarantee of the verity of one 's feeling — Christian or non-Christian , as the case may be . |
| 15 | The men , who are interested in cash , are more liable to go for the big wood . |
| 16 | They 've been through rehearsals and are ready to go for the big money . |
| 17 | They 've been through rehearsals and are ready to go for the big money . |
| 18 | You 've got to go for the big stuff . |
| 19 | Universities are ready to go for the big time and exploit their earning capacity in a way they have n't in the past . |
| 20 | If the spin is " up " the electron goes off one way , if it is " down " the electron goes off the other way , as in the figure . |
| 21 | and he goes off the big city ma ma , like this and he 's got a fucking flying helmet and a flying bucket |
| 22 | Grist goes through the MASHING MACHINE mixed with hot water into the MASH TUN . |
| 23 | That way , every drop goes through the magnetic maelstrom . |
| 24 | Food in a fibre-rich diet stays in the stomach longer ; and it seems probable that the food is less efficiently digested as it goes through the digestive tract . |
| 25 | Large areas of the beach contained hundreds of German prisoners behind makeshift barbed wire compounds , waiting to go aboard the tank-landing craft , their destination prisoner-of-war camps in England . |
| 26 | And few of the people who hit the glass ceiling are inclined to go through the additional pain of a complaint to the government or a court case . |
| 27 | Throughout the dispute my technique was to go through the front door — I refused to be smuggled in — and then ask for a deputation of the demonstrators to come and talk to me . |
| 28 | There 's no need to go through the usual rigmarole of minimizing your word processor application , opening a spreadsheet , typing in the data and then copying and pasting it back into the word processor . |
| 29 | The adventurers will probably want to go through the usual routine of tipping the earth out of the coffin , smashing it , and suchlike , but then they have the pressing problem of getting out of this room . |
| 30 | HARRISONS & Crosfield must really dislike being classified as an overseas trader if it is willing to go through the complex process of changing its listing only to end up as a miscellaneous industrial . |