Example sentences of "go the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we 'd finished that night Dad gave us tuppence to go the first half at the Queen 's Hall . |
| 2 | If you ca n't , if you ca n't get home if you have to go the that play , give me ring . |
| 3 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 4 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 5 | Why did he always want to go the long way round . |
| 6 | and you 've got to go the other way . |
| 7 | But in this case , the evidence seemed to go the other way , and was the express reason why the magistrates dismissed the charges . |
| 8 | Th th the trouble is the government seems to go the other way , and er , when when it should be learning my opinion , lowering the age at which you receive your pension , they want to extend the age into which you have to work . |
| 9 | I can work that way , I 've got to go the other way . |
| 10 | Then if you want blue to go the other side of the hoop and black to go here say , to the black wo n't go quite so far and the blue will . |
| 11 | anyway to go the other side on the other |
| 12 | An Edinburgh man who 's fought for eight years to overturn a conviction for armed robbery says he 's prepared to go the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 13 | He welcomed the European Commission on Human Rights ' ruling that the case of the three IRA members killed by the SAS in Gibraltar was good enough to go the European Court . |
| 14 | Erm Oh I do n't need to go the damn shop now . |
| 15 | Clapp subsequently lost heavily to Suffolk 's Colin Gathercole in the afternoon , however , to leave Essex needing the last two matches to go the right way . |
| 16 | All this when her only motivation was to go the extra mile under all circumstances . |
| 17 | Mr Patten told legislators : ‘ We wished to go the extra mile and give the Chinese side every opportunity to respond . |
| 18 | I will not insult you by asking you to be my servant , Burkett , but nevertheless I could use a good man to drive this coach down to Grasmere , get me some fishing over a few days , be prepared to go the odd errand — about a week in all I would guess . |
| 19 | Not only is it extremely easy to go the wrong way , and indeed many businesses have foundered on the basis of one , usually inadvertent , mistaken direction , but all of us are aware that a lot of businesses are n't going anywhere at all . |
| 20 | You have to go the scenic route and learn things that way . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I was n't sure about making the sharp turn into the fifth fence , but Ted told me I had to go the fast way everywhere otherwise I had no hope of winning , ’ Mac said . |
| 22 | The case is expected to go the High Court some time next year . |
| 23 | you you used to go the weekly meetings the Labour Party . |
| 24 | If they are doing purely local journeys , then that may be too much and they may prefer to use the Oxford ringroad , but if they are doing long-distance journeys ten miles is not a very significant addition to their journey in length and the congestion on the Oxford ringroad is such that it may actually be shorter in time terms to go the longer way round in distance . |
| 25 | Jo Siffert was to go the next year in a non-championship race at Brands Hatch . |
| 26 | It is not natural to work through the night shift , I 've worked it , there is no way of starting a week without your Er I 've slept a night before , somewhere at the weekend , when the day comes , but you 've got to go the next night to work . |
| 27 | She was planning to go the next day . |
| 28 | Karen Rake of Aylesbury finished fourth in both the 100 and 200 and now has to go the Welsh Nationals next month to try to qualify for the Europeans … |
| 29 | ‘ This little oasis is a great pleasure to everyone in the area and it would be a travesty if it were ever to go the same way as everywhere else in the Newbury district — for commercial gain . ’ |
| 30 | Most patterns need to go the same way on all pieces joined , so this must be taken into account when ordering . |