Example sentences of "go [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was longing to go somewhere away from all this , among people who did n't know her , quiet and dark where nothing happened . |
| 2 | We see action in one area not as self-contained or hermetically sealed , but as spilling over to affect and be affected by what goes on elsewhere under the same roof . |
| 3 | It 's fun ambling among the dripping-wet mountains of cod and mullet ( or rabbits and pheasants during the hunting season ) , but the serious eating goes on elsewhere in town . |
| 4 | This self-programming goes on continuously with an implicit acknowledgment of the need for triggers and the relative advantages of various kinds of stores and stored materials . |
| 5 | Political change of some kind goes on continuously in every society , in response to a variety of changing internal and external conditions , which include the relation to nature and to other societies , the interaction of groups within each society , and the unceasing circulation of personnel through the disappearance of older generations and the rise of new ones . |
| 6 | The emotional and mental link tying the child to its mother is usually very powerful , and goes on well after the physical birth itself . |
| 7 | and then it starts off , and then it goes on again without winding it back on . |
| 8 | Strikingly , even as the newly-qualified trained infantrymen relax outside the NAAFI with their visitors , the process of coaching other recruits to that goal goes on relentlessly around them . |
| 9 | Ahead , the wall goes on interminably for mile after mile to the distant swelling on the horizon marking the summit . |
| 10 | Walk on round to those cliffs and you come to what seem like utterly derelict sheds hanging on the edge of the precipice , stinking of goat : these are stacked with piles of skins for tanning , which goes on below in Brobdingnagian wooden barrels and enormous concrete troughs . |
| 11 | ‘ And I presume this sort of thing goes on all over the country ? ’ |
| 12 | Time seemed to go rather slowly at first . |
| 13 | She is infatuated with a handsome police chief , goes rather grimly to bed with him in the time he can spare from gambling sessions , and then kills herself . |
| 14 | We round a corner and the way goes downhill steeply into the valley . |
| 15 | US authorities allege that Gen Noriega made millions in illegal profits by allowing drug trafficking to go on freely in Panama . |
| 16 | After all , she had nothing to go on apart from what Terry Lewis had told her , and she knew what a liar he was . |
| 17 | Now it is not expected to go on much beyond spring of next year . |
| 18 | Roger was to make his way home to Ramsey , and young Payne chose to go on there with him , as he had said he would . |
| 19 | Lights began to go on all over Princedale Road . |
| 20 | Although they do lie outside the mainstream — indeed , because they lie outside it — authors such as B. S. Johnson have at the very least an important exemplary function , keeping open a wide spectrum of possibility , even for authors who may not always wish to go so far in such radical directions themselves . |
| 21 | In Andrew 's world the pocket-knife that belonged to Iain 's recollection became a cleaver that seemed to go so close to the bone as to almost sever completely . |
| 22 | It goes so well with their pale skin and light hair . |
| 23 | In ‘ The Mistaken Lover ’ Leapor shows Strephon feebly criticizing his wife 's appearance ; in this poem , Leapor goes much further by asserting that she herself is an ugly woman , a slattern , and almost dares the gentleman to stand by his favourable opinion of her intelligence . |
| 24 | Tomato honey is excellent with pork , especially the salted or pickled variety , and goes nicely too with lamb , as a change from redcurrant or mint jelly . |
| 25 | And then he goes down again in secret on the Saturday in the Datsun . |
| 26 | Mr Gandhi has an election coming up and a big one-day cricket tournament not only goes down well with the electorate , but also goes a long way towards providing a short-term solution to the unemployment problem . |
| 27 | This way she/he will not be thrown by watching you note each unfortunate remark or be distracted by trying to work out what goes down well with you . |
| 28 | This goes down well for a while , until the ‘ MC ’ puppet finally orders them to ‘ kindly leave the stage ’ or to be quiet . |
| 29 | A DEFEAT at the hands of old rivals Celtic never goes down well at Ibrox . |
| 30 | But Mr de Soto goes down well in Washington , where he has helped persuade the authorities to take the previously unknown Mr Fujimori seriously . |