Example sentences of "go [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Russell converted the penalty , Beasant ( and Chelsea ) going completely the wrong way . |
| 5 | Well Cynthia went somewhere the other day and there were so many pe people in black it was like a doomsday |
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | go home the same day |
| 10 | anorexic , I thought my mum was anorexic when I went home the other day . |
| 11 | We have gone slightly the other way with obviously robotics and the electronic age and this sort of thing . |
| 12 | New York-based Computer Outsourcing Services Inc , which said it wanted to make acquisitions when it went public the other day , has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a private New York-based provider of billing and payroll services to companies in the home health care industry on a four-year earnout . |
| 13 | There were fifteen sisters here , but sadly most of them are gone now the old originals |
| 14 | If the previous stages have gone well the actual task of writing may now be relatively painless . |
| 15 | Oh I 'll go there the other day and see what 's |
| 16 | that 's what I 'm saying , if you go then the following day we 'll bring Philip and then by which time you most probably got news about the old codger here |
| 17 | Oh about eight , seven or eight , but when we first went there the honourable S G W was the vicar , fourth son of the Earl of and er , oh you he was there then afterwards er Father came , and I used to do altar serving oh I was never interested in it you know I was forced into it . |
| 18 | Oh I , when I , when I went there the next morning I had to tell all in front of the class and tell all the kids . |
| 19 | If she wanted Lori gone then the quickest way was to give her the coffee she 'd asked for . |
| 20 | A sporting fairy tale … but hold on … will Nigel and the Williams team from Oxfordshire live happily ever after … believe it or not before the bubbly has gone flat the sporting world is alive with speculation about the future of Mansell … |
| 21 | The final toll was 83 dead and more than 100 injured , many seriously , but Le Mans still went ahead the following year — with the memory of 1955 still very fresh in everybody 's mind . |
| 22 | Or should he go completely the other way ? |
| 23 | Yeah , I did , went , I went through the blue , then we flew too Melbourne see eh , one of her friends and stayed with her , like they 've got trams there , went too the Great Barrier Reef where the water plane . |
| 24 | Almost all the ladies silently decided to go downtown the next morning and buy a copy of The Cheaper Sex . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He does n't like going to school for a start , but he goes else the old man beats him up . |
| 27 | If , as I used to , one cracks walnuts by banging two of the things together , and keeps the uncracked winner to go forward the next round , will one inevitably finish Christmas with the hardest nut to crack in one 's hand ? |