Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mother 's agony goes on 20 years after her son 's death |
| 2 | Rushing , rushing , traffic from morning to night : it goes on twenty-four hours a day . |
| 3 | Remember that you are bound to go along some passages that are dead ends . |
| 4 | You used to have to go down three steps , and they used to fetch the beer in a jug . |
| 5 | Others who have not this privilege would be well advised to listen carefully to recordings with the score , and to go over many times passages which seem to them obscure or unfamiliar in sound at a first hearing . |
| 6 | Stir a spoonful or two of potted crab or lobster ( minus the butter covering ) into fresh cream for eggs en cocotte , into a béchamel sauce to go over poached eggs or a gratin of sole fillets . |
| 7 | ‘ I want you to go over these plans with me . ’ |
| 8 | Often most benefit is gained if the teacher goes over key points with the group afterwards to check on understanding . |
| 9 | Pop used to go off some evenings to drive an ambulance , and then Christmas 1942 — when Rangoon was badly bombed . |
| 10 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 11 | No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 . |
| 12 | It must be going on twenty-three years old . |
| 13 | He had n't the truth out of me for going on three days . |
| 14 | Carl Lewis has called the 100 metres ‘ ten seconds going on ten years ’ . |
| 15 | Max Klein , its incumbent for going on ten years , revelled in those qualities . |
| 16 | ‘ Ought we to try to get away ? ’ whispered Snodgrass , whose mind had been going along similar paths . |
| 17 | Once fierce rivals of York came unstuck again in their desperate bid to climb away from the bottom reaches of Yorkshire Division One , going down 15–10 Leodiensians . |
| 18 | Looking back on the fall , he said : ‘ I knew he was going down 20 yards before it happened . |
| 19 | Allow for greater braking distances with a loaded trailer and always use the lower gears going down steep hills . |
| 20 | I stopped , puffed — you puff as much going down steep hills as you do going up , and your thighs hurt . |
| 21 | Going down several inches I came upon some links of chain . |
| 22 | Both the Peruvian and Bolivian features are dead straight , going over topographical obstacles without deviation . |
| 23 | As soon as the blindfold is applied , remove the obstacles and watch the children going over imaginary items . |
| 24 | You 're going up two squares at a time and you 're going one two three and it 's usually when you get to around where I tend to do it is erm sort of eight and ten . |
| 25 | If you drew it on your graph it would be quite steep and it would look as if you were going up ten centimetres for every centimetre you went along which is almost vertical . |
| 26 | Tcket prices are going up 3 pounds for leeds fans ( from 7 to 10 for terraces ) but only 2 pounds for the home fans ( who have some special card apparently ) Could turn out to be quite an expensive trip … |
| 27 | But the view cos you , you 're going up seven miles |
| 28 | Apparently this person 's been going out all hours of the day and night . ’ |
| 29 | Now the weather 's nice , she 's been going out three times a day . ’ |
| 30 | What you 've been going out seven weeks ? |