Example sentences of "go [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The price of shares would ‘ go down a long way . ’
2 Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’
3 Mother Francis stood at a window and watched little Eve go down the long avenue of the convent out to Sunday lunch on her own with the Hogans .
4 We can go down the bottom end this way
5 He went the long way home , but did not go down the little gang plank to the barge of a friend of his — a woman who kept ten or so cats on board and brewed some awful drink out of peaches .
6 For the worry that they themselves might go down the same road meant that they could see that teachers who were now ‘ like that ’ had once been enthusiastic , committed students like themselves .
7 Why can we not go down the same road ?
8 The proposed discount will go only a certain way towards doing what is needful .
9 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 .
10 The , the U K pension charge will er er er go up to the extent that pensionable salaries go up , there 's a standard surplus being amortized au fait gently rising pension , I mean there 's obviously there 's an X percent of pensionable salaries is what the will tell you will have to provide and er er not much more at the moment er therefore the charge will go up a little bit but not , not gradually and it 's not much .
11 ‘ George Graham says they can go up a few gears for the replay , but we 'll wait and see .
12 ‘ We can go up the long way , past your farm , and you can nip in and change .
13 have n't got it right actually , I mean basically we can go up the top shop and buy what we like ca n't we ?
14 Here is a test : if you were in Warsaw , faced with an hour to fill before catching a train , would you go up the tallest building in the city to experience a panoramic view , or rush to the bookstore/poster shop in order to buy a massive Telly Savalas poster ?
15 Let's go back a little way , between the woods , and have a scratch near that oak tree there — just by that white patch of stitchwort .
16 That the , that the erm , right , erm , you can go back a fair ways earlier and already find people thinking that you can be transported from one body to another , or even from one species to another .
17 Let's go back a little bit .
18 He 's got ta stick at it , y'know , because if … the discharger … [ says ] something unkind … you 've got ta go back the next week , the next week , and the next week .
19 who I was , and what I wanted , in a lazy , indifferent way , and … never ceased smoking while he heard me , and … , when I concluded , he took his pipe from his mouth , reversed it , and with the mouth-piece pointing to the door , he said , ‘ Very well , you can go back the same way you came .
20 And you knew what they were thinking , they were trying to weigh up whether they dare go across the stepping stones and you could tell by their faces and what they did of course when they decided no it was beyond them and they 'd play safe and they 'd go back the same way .
21 When Bodo saw I was in trouble , he said ‘ We 'd better turn round and go out the other way .
22 ‘ He could n't go out the front door to play without being mugged . ’
23 ‘ Why not go out the front gate , the way they came in ? ’
24 You held your hand still on the page and you traced around each finger , and all the little contours of your finger joints were captured , and you would go around a few times , and each time the pencil was at a slightly different angle , so you got this aura of your hand , that was so much more accurate than you could ever draw , and all you had to do was put in the fingernails and the little wrinkles on the backs of your fingers and you really had something ?
25 Oh I 'll go there the other day and see what 's
26 The Daily Telegraph and the magazine Tee Topics both wrote ecstatically about the course , the former proclaiming ‘ Henley is one of the most delightfully situated courses ; variety and holes so laid out you might go round a dozen times and never have to play the same shot in succession , not even on the same hole ’ .
27 Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ?
28 Or should he go completely the other way ?
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