Example sentences of "go [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | The final stage goes up a smooth incline that appears to have been man-made , possibly to ease the passage of materials for the erections on the top . |
| 32 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 33 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 34 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 35 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 36 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 37 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 38 | The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way . |
| 39 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 40 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 41 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 42 | Goes back a long way I 'm afraid . |
| 43 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 44 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
| 45 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |
| 46 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 47 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 48 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 49 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
| 50 | It is not necessary to go back a hundred years , however , in order to discover a London haunted by unusually similar fears about the leniency of the law and the terrors of the night . |
| 51 | Erm , just to go back a wee bit to the thing about th the image and and the fight that we have on our hands er , to actually break into the media , I do n't , I think people underestimate the control an and er the feeling that men have that it 's their game and we 're not gon na take it away from them ! |
| 52 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
| 53 | No I , I was just sort of erm A wondering and B wondering whether to go back a different way round and |
| 54 | But if you thought about the order that you test , then , if something does n't work , you may only have to go back a few steps and re-test . |
| 55 | To understand how these families , regarded by their Orcadian neighbours as good , clean-living people , came to be at the centre of such serious allegations , it is necessary to go back a few years . |
| 56 | " Go on a provincial morning or evening first . " |
| 57 | Go on a giant worm-hunt ? |
| 58 | The price of shares would ‘ go down a long way . ’ |
| 59 | The best of Assynt , however , lies between this road and the coast , and my preference is always to turn off the A.894 two miles out of Kylesku and go along a narrow road that has never been improved and I hope never will . |
| 60 | The old woman went along a short passage , passed a scullery and continued on a few yards . |