Example sentences of "go [adv] [art] [adj] way " in BNC.

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1 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
2 sort of going just a short way along and having to reverse back out again
3 Russell converted the penalty , Beasant ( and Chelsea ) going completely the wrong way .
4 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 .
5 The proposed discount will go only a certain way towards doing what is needful .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 She 'd gone only a short way when some sixth sense brought her to a halt in the nick of time .
9 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 !
10 We have gone slightly the other way with obviously robotics and the electronic age and this sort of thing .
11 Yet despite these differences , English English has gone quite a long way down the road of a more-or-less Americanized professionalism , as identified and rejected in the 1960s by Leavis , Lewis , and Gardner .
12 By spring of eighty-nine , when the project had started , we 'd gone quite a long way down the road , we 'd decided that we wanted to be looking at what was feasible in general practice .
13 If she wanted Lori gone then the quickest way was to give her the coffee she 'd asked for .
14 This went quite a long way towards soothing enraged newspapermen and the dinner terminated quite peacefully , although on its termination my drink stock was reduced by two whole bottles of whisky .
15 Or should he go completely the other way ?
16 The ‘ Chicago ’ human capital approach ( e.g. Becker 1971 ; also see Mincer 1980 ) perhaps goes overboard the other way , seeing observed inequality as simply the reflection of current investments in human capital and returns to past investments .
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