Example sentences of "go [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We can go down the bottom end this way |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Why can we not go down the same road ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We can go up the long way , past your farm , and you can nip in and change . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | When Bodo saw I was in trouble , he said ‘ We 'd better turn round and go out the other way . |
| 15 | ‘ He could n't go out the front door to play without being mugged . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Why not go out the front gate , the way they came in ? ’ |
| 17 | Oh I 'll go there the other day and see what 's |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Or should he go completely the other way ? |