Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I used to enjoy the singing a lot but sometimes the preachers used to go on quite a bit .
2 And you come over this hill and suddenly there 's nothing on the other side except a huge hole in the ground , and the road goes along almost a cliff edge the side of this erm hole which is this worked out iron ore quarry .
3 I used to go through once a month .
4 Ipswich players were going down quite a lot , and every time they did , Leeds kindly punted the ball back to them after the drop-ball restart .
5 ‘ A somewhat sadistic variation on Warner Baxter 's famous speech to Ruby Keeler in 42nd Street : ‘ You 're going out there a youngster , but you 've got to come back a star . ’
6 is sort of going back quite a bit
7 Well I went in a choir , I could never sing , and I still ca n't , and er the choir used to go out quite a lot , and er we cycled and we youth-hostelled , even as w or in on working parties , at some of the peak hostels .
8 My husband told me I ought to be getting out more , so my friend and I began to go out once a fortnight .
9 Oh it was glorious I made a note to myself actually , that I 'm only going to go out once a week for a proper shop , from a list , in the solar and the rest of the time I 'm going to go to the quite expensive little Robber 's Roe , round the corner from me .
10 Otherwise , he goes out quite a lot and he occasionally , according to Gooseneck , entertains ladies in his bedroom . ’
11 She lives with her mam and dad , a cleaner and welder respectively , and does a bit of housework , though her mam still does the cooking , and she goes out once a week .
12 Twenty five years later , Bevan expressed his hostility to the EEC in terms redolent with the memory of 1930 : ‘ Are we now expected to go back almost a century , reject socialism , and clasp free trade to our bosom as though it were the only solution of our social evils ? ’
13 It was It seems a kind of I mean it seems to have gone on quite a bit that people who had a Co book would allow other people to draw off of that , would go to the shops and buy whatever they needed of the Co book .
14 So if you take the first one immediately before you go to bed , if your blood pressure does go down rather a lot , it does n't matter cos you 're lying down , you 'll
15 You know we have a considerable holding of er , land immediately adjacent to the reasonable shopping centre there and erm , if and when things become buoyant again and I went down there a couple of weeks and I was rather impressed by , by the look of the area , then clearly land prices go up and we have the capacity to , to generate more profit .
16 It 's two thirty or we go now or we go in about an hour but we ca n't go later I should think , can we ?
17 Then you have three weeks when you go in once a week for a top-up ; then another three days in , until you have done four sets of each .
18 So use all your all your paper go down quite a bit .
19 And the amount of it we get from India and Sri Lanka ha has gone down quite a lot .
20 I mean , we went through we went through nearly a case of one point fives at Mary 's party .
21 It went off only a couple of days after the meeting .
22 Yeah , I came I went up about a year ago , I remember when I went down to Hertford in the yeah , I said I , I forgot to say what ticket and they automatically give you an adult do n't they ?
23 He went up there a couple of times and stood outside on the pavement forcing leaflets on people , trying to get them to come inside .
24 It will go up quite a lot .
25 That 's right , even though your salary may well have gone up quite a bit more than that .
26 The widow told me that she went out twice a day — once very early for shopping and once for a walk towards evening — but never where the passeggiata took place .
27 I go out there a lot . ’
28 But I only go out once a week !
29 er We , we go out once a week on our bikes just to keep fit for the job more than anything , and have a pint away from the wives , er but er we 've looked into the idea of getting a bike specially made for Joanne , er the little girl who I said suffers from this disease .
30 Most of our clients go out quite a bit , which is nice . ’
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