Example sentences of "go [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 2 | The best way to go about proper practice is to find yourself a partner of similar standard , who is equally keen to improve , and spend hours sweating and toiling on the practice court . |
| 3 | The easiest and most obvious way to go about this self-assessment is to divide a sheet of paper with a line down the middle , head it ‘ Plus ’ and ‘ Minus ’ and write down everything you can think of under each heading . |
| 4 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
| 5 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 6 | Only some large religious or political issue would induce people to take the very considerable step involved in emigration if they had any established position to keep them in England — younger sons , the poor , and those with nothing to lose might easily be more ready to travel , if they could get the financial backing needed , or were willing to go as indentured labourers . |
| 7 | And are you now going to take that any further or are you going as far as the government wants you to go as this stage ? |
| 8 | Things are pretty bad in Britain , Howard soon discovers , as he goes about questioning government officials . |
| 9 | The TV items are being selected on the criteria of level of interest and validity as examples of authentic spoken English ie. we tend to go for ordinary people speaking to camera rather than voice over or straight presentation to camera . |
| 10 | Are we going to go for fourteen lane high way , or motorway , on the M twenty five , cos if you do , all the roads that lead from it are going to have to be fourteen lane . |
| 11 | It is therefore in the interests of bureaucrats to go for increased staffing levels as a means of constructing such coalitions , and the implications of this clearly point to increased waste and inefficiency , since , having bid for a maximum budget , within that budget , instead of adopting the most efficient form of production and delivery of services , ‘ bureaucrats ’ can be expected to choose the most labour-intensive . |
| 12 | Y , you , you h , you want , you 've got to go for neutral colours , that 's going to sort of stress the less number of people have n't you ? |
| 13 | With the recession the local labour council has refused to go for new jobs and at the height of this , they sacked the man whose job it was to bring jobs to Swindon . |
| 14 | Erm it might be better to go for two squares is one engine and they 'll fit on okay . |
| 15 | It will be hard for us to be away from Andrew and Peter over Christmas and New Year but the boys have been really encouraging , telling us to go for all God has for us . |
| 16 | erm the Labour party decided to go for proportional representation . |
| 17 | It 's cos I ca n't be arsed to go for one stamp . |
| 18 | Er ours is a slightly more difficult task , I would suggest a much more difficult task , in that we 're trying to go for one certificate for the whole of the group . |
| 19 | This is obviously a strong incentive to go for long periods . |
| 20 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 21 | Part of the considerable achievement of Michael Mann 's imaginative but faithful treatment is that it manages to make acceptable for the 1990s some of the outmoded attitudes of its characters , and yet refuses to go for that eco-trendiness that will make Dances With Wolves look dated by the turn of the century . |
| 22 | It must have cost a lot of money to go for that amount of time ? |
| 23 | Did they try to go for passing shots as they stood two feet behind the baseline ? |
| 24 | On that subject , obviously next year , er bearing in mind that we 've agreed as a committee to go for twelve matches on Sundays |
| 25 | ‘ We decided to go for restricted leg room rather than restricted vision , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , promising teenage winger Andy Turner has opted to go for international recognition with the Republic of Ireland rather than England . |
| 27 | The only rule here is not to go for exaggerated styles . |
| 28 | The only rule here is not to go for exaggerated styles . |
| 29 | In my professional view , cos if the new settlement has to be in is ch is i has to be within the greenbelt then it 's better to go for peripheral development rather than have a new settlement in the first place . |
| 30 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |