Example sentences of "go [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That underrated favourite of Martin Scorsese , Harvey Keitel , appears in Reservoir Dogs , a tense thriller about a diamond heist that goes badly wrong because someone has grassed on the top thieves . |
| 2 | so we 've got to get some Oh we 'll have to go somewhere snazzy cos I 've got that black dress to wear have n't I ? |
| 3 | Later he tried to change his mind by saying to me , ‘ Do n't you want to go somewhere quieter than that , where we can talk ? ’ |
| 4 | Their imaginations are eager to go rather more than half-way to meet the audacious writer . |
| 5 | Something ( like the weather ) will have to go badly wrong if this is not to be another extremely profitable season for the Test and County Cricket Board . |
| 6 | But , oh he 's quite happy , he 'll curl up in the back of a car , but when I come home and he goes so berserk if I 've left him at home , I know that he 's been watching and listening and waiting for me all that time . |
| 7 | But since it was established in 1775 to serve as a printer to Edinburgh 's legal , banking and ecclesiastical communities P&W has developed a strong position in financial printing , providing it with a coverage that goes much wider than ‘ Sketch and describe an electronic circuit . ’ |
| 8 | I was beginning to think that I would be going home fishless when I found myself singing , ‘ He shall feed his flock ’ ; and fell to musing upon how well I would be able to feed five , let alone five thousand , given the reluctance of the fish to show even a snout above the surface . |
| 9 | Shortens the route by some two miles though it involves going slightly higher than the main route . |
| 10 | She is now 24 years old and going as strong as ever . |
| 11 | I must be going as senile as Mark H thinks . |
| 12 | and we 'll be back with the Camel Trophy in Herefordshire next month for the final training session … do n't think our footballers will find the going as tough as that … tomorrow we 've got Oxford against Cambridge … |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , Hank , how exciting ! ’ exclaimed Isobel , her face going even pinker than the wind had made it . |
| 14 | I used to go as little as possible to the MainMan offices . |
| 15 | Frankly , the only people I can think of who need to go as low as 850 calories a day in order to achieve a pacey weight loss on the F-Plan are small , rather sedentary women , only a few pounds overweight , and those struggling off the last few pounds of excess weight after a prolonged dieting campaign . |
| 16 | I wish to go as high as the church steeple , ’ she told the broom firmly . |
| 17 | Anthony : My last teacher used to go really mad if we talked about miles . |
| 18 | Our slimmer is never above 9 st 4 lb ( 59.0 kg ) , spends most days at 9 st 3 lb ( 58.5 kg ) , and goes as low as 9 st O lb ( 57.2 kg ) . |
| 19 | If it goes as high as an additional half a million each year then the structural management fund will not last through the three years . |
| 20 | The refusal this week by Virginia Bottomley , the new Health Secretary , to outlaw ‘ gagging clauses ’ in health workers ' contracts raises alarm about the climate of fear in British society that goes far wider than the NHS . |
| 21 | Meanwhile the Nazgûl himself goes even more than usual beyond the boundaries of even ‘ romantic ’ humanity : he looks like a man , and carries a sword , but it is a ‘ pale ’ or insubstantial one ; he bursts the Gate not only by Grond but by a projection of fear and dread , ‘ words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone ’ , which work like ‘ searing lightning ’ . |
| 22 | I do remember saying that we 'd go somewhere quiet so we can talk without any interruptions , and what better place to choose than the house ? ’ |
| 23 | Things go badly wrong when there has been some extreme untoward event such as a fire , an earthquake or a bomb , alternatively an unanticipated combination of faults may occur within the plant itself . |
| 24 | Aviemore is a classic example of how a good idea has gone disastrously wrong because commercial needs have overridden environmental sensitivity . |
| 25 | I went totally mad because there was an officer there that I knew — an officer that had picked me up and everything — he had arrested me before , but had also done business with me . |
| 26 | They 've gone they 've gone more skimpy cos they fit last year . |
| 27 | The Wall Street Journal hears that the company has listed the 60MHz version at $905 for 1,000-up , and gone as low as $850 each for its best customers ; the 66MHz version is said to cost $1,000 . |
| 28 | The Wall Street Journal hears that the company has listed the 60MHz version at $905 for 1,000-up , and gone as low as $850 each for its best customers ; the 66MHz version is said to cost $1,000 . |
| 29 | Erm but we 've gone as far as we feel we need to . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the County Council believes it has gone as far as its possibly can to recognize and respond to the district 's problems , and that it can not justify moving any closer in reducing the gap between the recommended allocation of a hundred and thirty two hectares and the two hundred to two hundred and fifty hectares which are requested the District Council . |