Example sentences of "go the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
2 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
3 | Why did he always want to go the long way round . |
4 | and you 've got to go the other way . |
5 | But in this case , the evidence seemed to go the other way , and was the express reason why the magistrates dismissed the charges . |
6 | Th th the trouble is the government seems to go the other way , and er , when when it should be learning my opinion , lowering the age at which you receive your pension , they want to extend the age into which you have to work . |
7 | I can work that way , I 've got to go the other way . |
8 | Then if you want blue to go the other side of the hoop and black to go here say , to the black wo n't go quite so far and the blue will . |
9 | anyway to go the other side on the other |
10 | An Edinburgh man who 's fought for eight years to overturn a conviction for armed robbery says he 's prepared to go the European Court of Human Rights . |
11 | He welcomed the European Commission on Human Rights ' ruling that the case of the three IRA members killed by the SAS in Gibraltar was good enough to go the European Court . |
12 | Erm Oh I do n't need to go the damn shop now . |
13 | Clapp subsequently lost heavily to Suffolk 's Colin Gathercole in the afternoon , however , to leave Essex needing the last two matches to go the right way . |
14 | All this when her only motivation was to go the extra mile under all circumstances . |
15 | Mr Patten told legislators : ‘ We wished to go the extra mile and give the Chinese side every opportunity to respond . |
16 | I will not insult you by asking you to be my servant , Burkett , but nevertheless I could use a good man to drive this coach down to Grasmere , get me some fishing over a few days , be prepared to go the odd errand — about a week in all I would guess . |
17 | Not only is it extremely easy to go the wrong way , and indeed many businesses have foundered on the basis of one , usually inadvertent , mistaken direction , but all of us are aware that a lot of businesses are n't going anywhere at all . |
18 | You have to go the scenic route and learn things that way . ’ |
19 | ‘ I was n't sure about making the sharp turn into the fifth fence , but Ted told me I had to go the fast way everywhere otherwise I had no hope of winning , ’ Mac said . |
20 | The case is expected to go the High Court some time next year . |
21 | you you used to go the weekly meetings the Labour Party . |
22 | Karen Rake of Aylesbury finished fourth in both the 100 and 200 and now has to go the Welsh Nationals next month to try to qualify for the Europeans … |
23 | I thought little about this prospect or indeed , about the opposition , as I was not intending to go the full distance after my exertions in the previous day 's 10K . |
24 | It is perhaps doubtful whether the Nordic states were really prepared to go the whole way to a common market . |
25 | For those intending to go the whole way and get their desktop publishing typeset the question of fonts and matching width tables really does cause problems . |
26 | Only if you want to go the whole way and produce typeset quality data will you ever need to consider anything better than VGA . |
27 | One is to go the whole atomist hog and turn women too into full-time contracting egoists , no less exploitative and solitary than the males . |
28 | A self-proclaimed poineer and the ‘ first man to go the whole hog ’ with his business , the Wild Boar Company , he was all for setting the strictest standards of breeds , offering a product aimed at the ‘ luxury end ’ of the market . |
29 | As he is not a chap to do anything by halves , to get your hands on the eight per cent SGNs you 'll have to go the whole hog and invest in ‘ Work '69 : Terres a Vin ’ , a box containing six special half-bottles ( 1 Muenchberg Riesling ‘ VV ’ , 2 Muenchberg Pinot Gris and 3 Franholz Gewurztraminer ) with handmade labels and capsules pebbledashed with vineyard soil , a piece of rock from each of the three Grand Cru vineyards and a book of Andre 's poems . |
30 | Brailsford was one of the few popular frontists prepared to go the whole hog and accept this . |