Example sentences of "go [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 2 | The main route goes along a narrow elevated ridge from Gray Crag to Thornthwaite Crag where you 'll find the tallest cairn in the Lake District at around 20ft high . |
| 3 | US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses . |
| 4 | Because of the Government 's apparent lack of enthusiasm for all things European , and their determination to go along a slow track , will not Scotland lose out again without any chance of the central bank being cited in Glasgow or Edinburgh ? |
| 5 | Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet . |
| 6 | This may not seem too controversial , but when one of the team leaders is an ex-alcoholic it requires tremendous openness to God to go down a risky and unexpected route ! |
| 7 | But then when it goes just a little bit further . |
| 8 | Oh aye , I said to John I said well I say well how far we 're going cos I 'm not keen on going right a long way |
| 9 | Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road . |
| 10 | We were sitting on water , going down a great , deep stream , and then I realized we were on a board — like that board in the field — all white and covered with black lines . |
| 11 | So if you put a big heavy engine going down a cast iron railway which wo n't |
| 12 | Going down a sporting memory lane has enticed some 16 million people to pay their cable-TV charge to watch the fight . |
| 13 | sort of going just a short way along and having to reverse back out again |
| 14 | Only time and a falling tide prevented him from going up a nearby church tower and filming us again . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Er I think I think probably they they 're going up a little bit later so |
| 17 | One electric lamp the others all be the the butty would have the electric lamp , and he 'd also carry an oil lamp for testing for gas , and er I can remember going nearly a whole shift having to carry this lamp right down on the floor , carry it up into the heading you see ? |
| 18 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
| 19 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
| 20 | They 've discovered we 're the oldest family in the whole county , going back a long way ! |
| 21 | Yeah good old laugh , I remember my scout motto , I promise that I 'll do my best and do my duties its going back a long , long way brother . |
| 22 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
| 23 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 24 | Our most controversial cover last year showed a photograph of a red car going around a Swiss hairpin , with the headline ‘ Ford 's new Escort meets its rivals ’ , and then , underlined in red , ‘ … and loses ’ . |
| 25 | It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit . |
| 26 | When describing the apparent relationship , instead of making the somewhat vague generalization ‘ the higher the X , the higher the Y ’ , the linear summary permits a more precise generalization ‘ every time X goes up a certain amount , Y seems to go up a specified multiple of that amount ’ . |
| 27 | When describing the apparent relationship , instead of making the somewhat vague generalization ‘ the higher the X , the higher the Y ’ , the linear summary permits a more precise generalization ‘ every time X goes up a certain amount , Y seems to go up a specified multiple of that amount ’ . |
| 28 | The final stage goes up a smooth incline that appears to have been man-made , possibly to ease the passage of materials for the erections on the top . |
| 29 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 30 | This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy . |