Example sentences of "go [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | But then when it goes just a little bit further . |
| 3 | Whenever he tried to go home the old woman would throw a magic ball of thread into his boat and draw him back to shore . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | sort of going just a short way along and having to reverse back out again |
| 6 | She made some tea , she told me afterwards and stayed and stayed and stayed and he lived at Prindon and his mother was very very deaf and my mother got worried because he was going away the next day and she said to him , Len do n't you think you ought to spend the evening with your mother and he said , yes , I 'll go now and he ran off and he ran back again and he said , you do n't mind if I write to Ivy do you ? |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | I think the way things are going now the Black people in South Africa are treated much better than they were before , but they used to be treated terribly , and after all it was their country . |
| 9 | Noel Wilson 's chance on Flap Jack looked dim with two to jump in the Bramham Moor 's Restricted , with G Derek still going strongly a dozen lengths ahead . |
| 10 | Russell converted the penalty , Beasant ( and Chelsea ) going completely the wrong way . |
| 11 | We look out into the darkness wondering why we elected to go nearly a hundred miles in this . |
| 12 | And this filled the perverse daughter with a great desire to go even a little way into the wild wood , where there were no plates and no stitching , but might well be a need of such things as she knew she had it in herself to perform . |
| 13 | Well Cynthia went somewhere the other day and there were so many pe people in black it was like a doomsday |
| 14 | Just before the line went dead a sharp click sounded as an extension was replaced . |
| 15 | Decisions or plans that went awry a few weeks ago may now right themselves and the momentum of life steps up markedly . |
| 16 | The proposed discount will go only a certain way towards doing what is needful . |
| 17 | They go only a short distance , or in the wrong direction or just come straight down again . |
| 18 | The Central African Federation , embracing the Rhodesias and Nyasaland , had broken up under African nationalist pressures at the end of 1960 ; the West Indies Federation had gone much the same way during 1961 ; and South Africa had become a republic and left the Commonwealth that year . |
| 19 | No wonder Italians have just voted massively to adopt the British system for three-quarters of their Senate seats ; the Chamber of Deputies will probably go much the same way . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll come , ’ said Karr , but he was gone only a few moments . |
| 21 | But he had gone only a few paces when she called to him . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
| 24 | Mait had gone only a short distance when he heard the faint beep from above . |
| 25 | She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time . |
| 26 | She had gone only a little way however , when she stopped to check her map and , to her consternation found that when she turned the ignition on again her car would n't go ! |
| 27 | ‘ If he 'd gone away a long time ago , it would have been better , ’ said Mrs Clancy wryly . |
| 28 | We arrived quite late on our first night and , when I went downstairs the next morning the waitress showed us to our table and said : ‘ Good morning , I think you were arriving at eleven o'clock last night . ’ |
| 29 | After circling and playing together for probably a minute , the fins had lazily disappeared and Yanto had gone home a mystified man . |
| 30 | go home the same day |