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

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1	‘ They must n't forget there 's a recession going on and we 've just got to be realistic about money . ’
2	Odd-Knut finds a steep up-slope where a river joins the lake and we play for a bit going up and down steep slopes .
3	You are kind of dozing but you are not asleep because you ca n't get to sleep because there is a needle sticking in your arm and you have got a drip going on and they come and change the bag and you are constantly feeling sick .
4	Or … maybe there 's a crusade going on as you said .
5	There was never a horse went out unless that tail was done up .
6	It looks like a sandwich going up and down to me .
7	You got , a light goes down and it shows , you know
8	About a boy going in and asking
9	If anyone is interested in forming a group to go out and get petitions signed , or anything else we can think of as a group , please will they write to me as soon as possible .
10	But if a war went badly and looked likely to drag on , that would be a calamity not just in its own right .
11	It just falls all over , all round me like a firework going off and floating down the sky .
12	Their husbands think that it is natural for a wife to go out and flaunt her husband 's prosperity and her family 's worth — that is their tiny horizon .
13	got a a a while to go yet before we decide what we 're going to do with that .
14	The Citizen 's Advice Bureau has got a pro forma which if a person goes in and says I think I ought to be getting , I think I , I do n't think I 'm getting sufficient income support or I 'm going to apply for income support .
15	He also spoke of an occasion when , dressed in his archbishop 's robes after some function , he had hailed a taxi to go home and realized he had no money .
16	However , it was not to be ; the Edison company preferred to market the phonograph as a dictation machine , and nearly a decade went by before cylinder moulding became a commercial reality .
17	Hardly a day went by but she saw some lass or other picked up by them snots .
18	Not a day went by but she saw Anthony 's face , and superimposed on it the face of Stavros , smirking slightly as he had been in the cemetery .
19	There 's not a day goes by that we do n't think of him . ’
20	There 's not a day goes by that I do n't think of my Brian . ’
21	When I bought her as a young heifer , a friend went on and on about how small she was until I wondered if I was going to have a beast left at all by the time she had finished .
22	There again , that 's the best of both worlds ; I have a chance to go out and play stadiums and arenas and then I get to go home and go back to the way I was , although with a lot more experience under my belt .
23	Maybe she was just waiting for a chance to go abroad and wanted to be ready to leave at any time .
24	Norma Thomson , secretary of New Deer Community Association , said : ‘ Perhaps whoever did the break-in knew there would n't be a policeman going back and forth and that he would be tied up at the meeting . ’
25	But instead of a hosereel going up and down the field , you have a tractor and an injector . ’
26	Then at last a cheer went up as the first portions of the ‘ bicentenary pie ’ were served to the 50,000 people who presented their £1 tickets .
27	BLACKPOOL : A bit of a cheer went up when the news came through last week in Brighton of the Government 's humiliation at the hands of the Bundesbank .
28	Aha , you know , since a week goes on and erm and that 's it , aha , not ring me up and say hi there we 're thinking of
29	He said : ‘ Never a week goes by but you get something you have never faced before , or something comes in a fashion you have not seen before , so there are plenty of challenges . ’
30	I 'm coming up a hill near some kind of huge church or cathedral — there must 've been a service or a concert going on because people are pouring out — one of them 's singing a high trill and her boyfriend 's cross : ‘ Please , Miranda !