Example sentences of "go [adv prt] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The contractors had done a lot of the work , but we had to go over some of it again , including painting the wooden treads on the stairs just to make sure it was right , ’ he explained . |
| 2 | She was going along one of the corridors when Travis caught up with her . |
| 3 | With a parallel interface all eight can be sent together with one bit going down each of the eight wires . |
| 4 | I make no apology for going over some of the ground again . |
| 5 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |
| 6 | In its massive library both Babylonian and Greek records of the heavenly bodies , going back hundreds of years , were housed , studied and debated . |
| 7 | And I discover too that he is the culmination of centuries of God 's revelation recorded in documents going back hundreds of years before his time . |
| 8 | There are records of it going back hundreds of years all across Europe and it is presumed it was based on fertility influences . ’ |
| 9 | This company was founded in 1981 by William Jackson and John Turner in Kidderminster , a town in the UK with a tradition of carpet-making going back hundreds of years . |
| 10 | Archaeologists have established that Jericho can claim to be one of the very oldest cities in the world , with a history going back all of ten thousand years . |
| 11 | What you must never forget is that I am not and never have been an ethnic of any description , and that I have never found any evidence that justifies any cretinous claim by you , or by any of your co-morons in the sewers of lofty racist Neanderthal , that Eurocentrism warrants any positive attention from those like myself who inherit — and consciously — a civilised tradition and philosophy going back millions of years . |
| 12 | ‘ Murtach and the others are going round some of the outlying tenants now , to ensure they came to no harm . ’ |
| 13 | Well , his book , his beautiful , shocking book , was published at last , and being bought by every kid in the States , so the balloon was bound to go up one of these days . |
| 14 | The first goes up left of COTW following a line of pegs and is said to hard for the grade . |
| 15 | The political and social infrastructure for the perpetration of overtly racist acts goes back hundreds of years of course ; but events immediately preceding the sixties laid the foundations for those excesses by the way ‘ race ’ became politicised . |
| 16 | THE political and religious crisis gripping India and Pakistan goes back hundreds of years . |
| 17 | Yet its origin goes back hundreds of years , to the days when the women camp followers of the mighty Persian armies slept in their scarlet silk tents . |
| 18 | Discussion of the effects of changes in the stock of money goes back hundreds of years . |
| 19 | President of er has warned that there could be a real and serious civil war and the conflict that there is between Armenian people and Azerbaijan , I 'm not sure that I understand it , but I suppose it has some similarities to so many other conflicts we see around the world , Northern Ireland , er Yugoslavia , just , it goes back hundreds of years and . |
| 20 | " Go on one of your tramps , why do n't you ? |
| 21 | Go on one of you . |
| 22 | A couple of hrududil could go down some of those holes . " |
| 23 | This meant that an older social critique , whose pedigree went back hundreds of years , was expanded to take account of juvenile employment in such a manner as to make the critique more subtle , at least in the sense that some reformers began to suggest that the combination of juvenile psychology , conditions of labour and industrial training was influential far beyond the workplace and on a scale previously unrecognized . |
| 24 | I do n't know , everybody driving around at nig , you , you go out first of August , at midnight . |
| 25 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |