Example sentences of "go [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes on a bit … ’ |
| 2 | Goes on a bit thick . |
| 3 | So you 've got the children tomorrow lunchtime , you 've got the band tomorrow evening , but the library exhibition goes on a bit longer ? |
| 4 | It goes on a lot better than Amy 's . |
| 5 | Goes on an hour |
| 6 | it goes , it goes on an hour |
| 7 | His best friend did not go to the funeral because he had already decided to go on a day trip to France ! |
| 8 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 9 | ARSENAL manager George Graham has been given the green light to go on a Christmas spending spree . |
| 10 | Yeah because he 's got to go on a month 's course for a start , for just general and then we 've got to try and find him a a week 's course somewhere as A L O , I do n't know where but er in that time . |
| 11 | But he goes down a treat at the annual summer conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 12 | This sort of feeble whining goes down a treat with women like Alison . |
| 13 | It goes down a treat at family do 's . ) |
| 14 | It loops it goes down a bit . |
| 15 | if I may give you a word of advice , you may think it 's rude , but when Mr is asking questions try not to turn down towards him , if you try and face across the jury , that 's what carries the voice if you 're looking at them , if you turn to your left , a bit of your head goes down a bit , it 's only natural , you 're not as used to courts as Mr is , er , he , he , your , it , your voice smothers , it 's not a question of shouting it 's just looking in the right direction , yes Mr go on |
| 16 | Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else . |
| 17 | This goes down a lot better . |
| 18 | There 's a path goes down a slope . |
| 19 | But then , it 's a big difference between skiing abroad and you know , like staying somewhere like Cyprus skiing in Scotland , it 's true , but I mean , it 's like the first , I mean , my dad 's typical , sort of , get to the top of the hill and give you a good shove , you know , give you one time to go down a bit slowly and then after that you just get to the top ski downhill phhhh . |
| 20 | If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes . |
| 21 | Some , through failing health or eyesight , were obliged to go down a couple of rungs on the ladder however , and there are an increasing number of cases in the 1940s of former compositors working as copy-holders for lower pay . |
| 22 | If I get home at 12.30 I probably wo n't want to go down a club , but I 'll pull a beer out of the fridge , sit down and have a laugh at everybody else making pillocks of themselves , including the prat who calls him self the Hitman . |
| 23 | I recently watched Dorothy Heathcote , halfway through a lesson on preparing for robbing a bank , release some junior school pupils into a free-play experience where they were to go down a manhole and then search the sewers under the bank . |
| 24 | Mike Wood normally flies Hawk jets but he 's happy to go down a step to share the piloting with Squadron Leader , Tim Farmer who 's happy to step up from his normal ground based job as a health and environment officer . |
| 25 | Severe wind turbulence caused my canopy to go down a lot faster than normal . |
| 26 | Queenie , come up to my office right away will you , I want to go over a mistake in the takings . |
| 27 | They may go down the field below the cave to a gate on the Kingsdale road which , followed to the left , goes over a rise to Deepdale and Dent , and to the right leads down the valley to the more probable destination of Ingleton which has accommodation , shops , refreshments and bus services . |
| 28 | Everyone is aware of the sensation experienced in a lift as it starts to descend , and in a car when it goes over a humped-back bridge . |
| 29 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 30 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |