Example sentences of "go [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 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 .
22 It is perhaps doubtful whether the Nordic states were really prepared to go the whole way to a common market .
23 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 .
24 Only if you want to go the whole way and produce typeset quality data will you ever need to consider anything better than VGA .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Brailsford was one of the few popular frontists prepared to go the whole hog and accept this .
29 Taking a deep breath we elected to go the whole hog and print 16 pages .
30 Mortified by the twist in his sobriety , George decided to go the whole hog and join the Total Abstinence Society .
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