Example sentences of "go [adv] [adv] a " 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 | I heard the piano strike up : Polly was to go over again a difficult duet with Laurence . |
| 5 | I would have thought that we might go on holiday , well going on quite a long holiday , we 're going on holiday after the project video 's completed , so it 'll be Christmas for me |
| 6 | Everything had been going swimmingly only a moment before . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You 've been going together quite a while . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going through quite a quiet patch lately , ’ he said , having drained his third glass of claret . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The harbour town of Watchet has a history going back over a thousand years and is still an active trading port . |
| 12 | We had last met over a year ago , when I went over to Paris to see an exhibition of the most wonderful Boucheron jewellery going back over a hundred years . |
| 13 | It had been at one time , going back over a hundred and fifty years , it had been what they called a combination poorhouse . |
| 14 | is sort of going back quite a bit |
| 15 | Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on . |
| 16 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | My husband told me I ought to be getting out more , so my friend and I began to go out once a fortnight . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Otherwise , he goes out quite a lot and he occasionally , according to Gooseneck , entertains ladies in his bedroom . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? ’ |
| 23 | You do n't just put a two page report in and it 's resolved it 's probably a three month project that you need to go continuously once a week to a trial meeting or or three months once a week to a two hour meeting . |
| 24 | Yes and they would they would go on quite a while these dances would they ? |
| 25 | Just cut his , go on just a little smidgen . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | After we went down about a hundred yards , we had to take a spell for me to get used to the darkness underground because the small flame of the oil-lamp was n't showing enough light . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Well they were noted even when cos Jim went down there a few , few times he used to have chaps running around the ground with chains and knives and all that sort of thing , but it 's in the Dockland area of London Millwall . |