Example sentences of "go [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland coach Douglas Morgan accepted : ‘ It 's a bit of a blow but the sooner Iain goes home the better , as depending on the results of the probe , he could still be available for the World Cup sevens at Murrayfield . ’ |
| 2 | Whenever he tried to go home the old woman would throw a magic ball of thread into his boat and draw him back to shore . |
| 3 | She was the best horse at Ascot where she got disqualified and she was brilliant at Sandown when people said she would n't handle going much the same as it will be at York . ’ |
| 4 | She made some tea , she told me afterwards and stayed and stayed and stayed and he lived at Prindon and his mother was very very deaf and my mother got worried because he was going away the next day and she said to him , Len do n't you think you ought to spend the evening with your mother and he said , yes , I 'll go now and he ran off and he ran back again and he said , you do n't mind if I write to Ivy do you ? |
| 5 | I think the way things are going now the Black people in South Africa are treated much better than they were before , but they used to be treated terribly , and after all it was their country . |
| 6 | Russell converted the penalty , Beasant ( and Chelsea ) going completely the wrong way . |
| 7 | Well Cynthia went somewhere the other day and there were so many pe people in black it was like a doomsday |
| 8 | The Central African Federation , embracing the Rhodesias and Nyasaland , had broken up under African nationalist pressures at the end of 1960 ; the West Indies Federation had gone much the same way during 1961 ; and South Africa had become a republic and left the Commonwealth that year . |
| 9 | Thus Wednesday 12 February went much the usual affable way . |
| 10 | No wonder Italians have just voted massively to adopt the British system for three-quarters of their Senate seats ; the Chamber of Deputies will probably go much the same way . |
| 11 | ‘ You would go just the same ? ’ suggested Alianor . |
| 12 | We arrived quite late on our first night and , when I went downstairs the next morning the waitress showed us to our table and said : ‘ Good morning , I think you were arriving at eleven o'clock last night . ’ |
| 13 | go home the same day |
| 14 | anorexic , I thought my mum was anorexic when I went home the other day . |
| 15 | We have gone slightly the other way with obviously robotics and the electronic age and this sort of thing . |
| 16 | Where things have gone wrong the two typical queries are : ‘ My fish are ill/dying/dead/refusing to eat ’ and ‘ My fish are killing each other ’ , and many of these I find very distressing , as they are usually the result of the hobbyist having failed to do his or her ‘ homework ’ before setting up their tank or buying a particular species . |
| 17 | New York-based Computer Outsourcing Services Inc , which said it wanted to make acquisitions when it went public the other day , has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a private New York-based provider of billing and payroll services to companies in the home health care industry on a four-year earnout . |
| 18 | There were fifteen sisters here , but sadly most of them are gone now the old originals |
| 19 | If the previous stages have gone well the actual task of writing may now be relatively painless . |
| 20 | I get out I get out of bed at eight o' clock when the last of the lodgers has gone well the last of the two lodgers |
| 21 | Oh I 'll go there the other day and see what 's |
| 22 | that 's what I 'm saying , if you go then the following day we 'll bring Philip and then by which time you most probably got news about the old codger here |
| 23 | It went quicker the closer you were to a clock . |
| 24 | Oh about eight , seven or eight , but when we first went there the honourable S G W was the vicar , fourth son of the Earl of and er , oh you he was there then afterwards er Father came , and I used to do altar serving oh I was never interested in it you know I was forced into it . |
| 25 | Oh I , when I , when I went there the next morning I had to tell all in front of the class and tell all the kids . |
| 26 | If she wanted Lori gone then the quickest way was to give her the coffee she 'd asked for . |
| 27 | A sporting fairy tale … but hold on … will Nigel and the Williams team from Oxfordshire live happily ever after … believe it or not before the bubbly has gone flat the sporting world is alive with speculation about the future of Mansell … |
| 28 | The final toll was 83 dead and more than 100 injured , many seriously , but Le Mans still went ahead the following year — with the memory of 1955 still very fresh in everybody 's mind . |
| 29 | Or should he go completely the other way ? |
| 30 | Who time should go faster the closer you were to a clock , they did n't know , and none of the castle 's waiters and attendants had any explanation either . |