Example sentences of "a [noun] go [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ . |
| 2 | Lessons on what it 's like to be a European went down a treat with the pupils of a rural Ulster primary school last week . |
| 3 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 4 | There 's a path goes down a slope . |
| 5 | He said nothing more , and his silence played across her taut nerves like a fingernail going down a blackboard . |