Example sentences of "go the [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Patten told legislators : ‘ We wished to go the extra mile and give the Chinese side every opportunity to respond . |
2 | You have to go the scenic route and learn things that way . ’ |
3 | For those intending to go the whole way and get their desktop publishing typeset the question of fonts and matching width tables really does cause problems . |
4 | Only if you want to go the whole way and produce typeset quality data will you ever need to consider anything better than VGA . |
5 | As he is not a chap to do anything by halves , to get your hands on the eight per cent SGNs you 'll have to go the whole hog and invest in ‘ Work '69 : Terres a Vin ’ , a box containing six special half-bottles ( 1 Muenchberg Riesling ‘ VV ’ , 2 Muenchberg Pinot Gris and 3 Franholz Gewurztraminer ) with handmade labels and capsules pebbledashed with vineyard soil , a piece of rock from each of the three Grand Cru vineyards and a book of Andre 's poems . |
6 | Brailsford was one of the few popular frontists prepared to go the whole hog and accept this . |
7 | Taking a deep breath we elected to go the whole hog and print 16 pages . |
8 | Mortified by the twist in his sobriety , George decided to go the whole hog and join the Total Abstinence Society . |
9 | I think the problem is perhaps that when we love that we no , we never love the same degree , the two people do n't li , love exactly the same way that in every relationship there is one who loves and one who is loved , one who kisses and one who is kissed and I think perhaps this balance if the relationship is weak , this kind of works it out that , that then they eventually split up , that one goes the other way and the ca n't stay together . |
10 | mm , cos listen to what I mean , Ollie goes , I was sitting next to Ollie yeah and she looks at my thingy , yeah , and she goes that 's what , you 've missed out three , so I sat there writing all the nec numbers , yeah , and miss goes the other table and I 'm like oh come on Carla hurry up and do the numbers inside , and I missed , I just could n't , I could n't catch up |
11 | But what you 've got to be very careful about is that if you go into a roundabout in that position and you get somebody in that position who is also going the same way and there 's a pinch point there , that 's the danger . |
12 | If she had been a man she would not have had to drive round , she would have simply gone the wrong way and got there sooner . |
13 | ] Will the ‘ Twelve ’ have established a relatively open trading relationship with the rest of the world or will it , accepting that a common external tariff will remain , have gone the opposite way and created a protectionist Europe what is often referred to as Fortress Europe ? |
14 | Many organizations have gone the whole way and created entirely different systems for each of these needs . |
15 | If the latter — why had she not gone the whole hog and burned it ? |
16 | I think the the key point about patriotism is one reason why perhaps people in , in Britain and so on should n't be patriotic too , but if you see the rather cynical attitude of the Western countries towards recent events , not just in Russia but right across the Eastern block , very good example was condemned , erm but when , following the massacres erm , the West has gone on to sort of do deals with the winners and cultivate links er with the people responsible for that massacre , the killing of the Soviet Union went the other way and consequently erm that 's where you know Western resources are directed . |
17 | So out went the playful jean and mechanic 's dungarees and in came haute couture , designer wear from around the world she was about to begin a campaign to conquer . |
18 | Off we went the next day and had nearly got to the shop when Dad spotted a relief officer . |
19 | The Profitboss might just go the other way and invest in revenue generation with a major advertising campaign . |
20 | Rather than make changes to aerodynamic efficiency to reduce speeds , why not go the whole hog and kill two birds with one stone ? |
21 | But it was felt that if we were to incorporate everything you wanted , why not go the whole hog and re-launch the mag ? |
22 | If I were you I 'd go the whole hog and set up a large invertebrate aquarium . |
23 | Why not go the whole hog and book yourself into a health farm for a really relaxing break . |
24 | When I fly to California for my final rethink , maybe I 'll go the whole hog and get my blood fixed too . |
25 | The only sheep around here are the sad bastards who walk around in Man Utd shirts ( particularly the fat bastard in Wakefield who has No.7 and Cantona stencilled on the back ) who were presumably sexually abused at a young age and hence feel the need to rebel — why not go the whole hog and dress up as a woman , you would nt look half as silly . |
26 | And when you 've claimed that much land , why not go the whole hog and put a roof over it as well . |
27 | Why ca n't they go the last mile and ban him from bowling against England batsman who clearly would find reading Sanskrit easier than spotting than ‘ Hollywood 's ’ wrong ‘ un . |
28 | In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread says the Old Testament ; salvation through hard work go the Protestant ethic and the rigidities of the New Right ; labour power , how nature is tamed and society transformed , argues Marxism . |
29 | But some of the new philosophers and freethinkers — Voltaire ( 1694–1778 ) , for example — go the whole hog and , particularly in Catholic France , where anticlericalism spurs it on , atheism takes root . |
30 | Squeezed into an Islington drinking hole prior to an onstage engagement , Sam sips tentatively at a half of lager while the siblings go the whole hog and guzzle pints of water . |