Example sentences of "[noun sg] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | British rail goes private |
| 2 | When the promised sprinters were not delivered on time , when the fares increased in proportion to the decline in reliability , when children are stranded because trains have broken down , when Conservative-controlled Suffolk county council subsidises the late night train , and when central Government grant for British Rail goes up , yet the service is still like a lottery , I despaired , I despair , and I will continue to despair until we give individuals , travellers , employees and taxpayers a real incentive to make it work — the freedom to succeed in the private sector . |
| 3 | If British Rail goes ahead with the building of this station at a cost of £1.4 billion , what sort of income will it need to secure from the capital developments to service the loan , bearing in mind the fact that the Minister has often said that the Government will put no money into the project ? |
| 4 | Travelling vicar goes full circle |
| 5 | Mother jailed for drug smuggling goes free |
| 6 | But parliament is far away , and the border of Wales is very near , and is there a soul in these parts who does not know that smuggling goes on day by day , and that life here would be impossible if it did not ? |
| 7 | So that means it is the turn of the guard 's watch to go faster than the driver 's . |
| 8 | Much of a research chemist 's ingenuity goes into devising pathways of feasible intermediates between starting chemicals and desired end-products . |
| 9 | The doorbell goes again . |
| 10 | No , but every whenever his chest goes he 's |
| 11 | So we use cardboard boxes and even if you 're moving crockery , you put half or a third of what you 'd put in a tea chest goes into er a a a cardboard box . |
| 12 | Descartes , so the story goes , reached this conception because , unlike his predecessors , the Aristotelians , he was obsessed by epistemological questions — that is , questions about what we can know and how we can know it . |
| 13 | ‘ In our village , as in many villages in the world at that time , there was a souvenir shop , ’ one story goes . |
| 14 | The 14-year-old civil war between the government and Jonas Savimbi 's Unita rebels has brought about the collapse of the oil-rich Angolan economy , the story goes , and turned Luanda , once called the Rio de Janeiro of Africa , into one of the continent 's dirtiest capitals . |
| 15 | When the Assembly closed the story goes that they found hundreds of dead Indians behind the screen . |
| 16 | The story goes that when the House of Commons was discussing this issue , a leading politician was heard to exclaim : ‘ If the Book of Common prayer was good enough for St Paul , it is good enough for me ! ‘ |
| 17 | The journalist Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd , continuing his indefatigable quest for the ancien régime , identified a clutch of MPs who owned country houses , including Paul Channon and Mark Lennox-Boyd of the Guinness dynasty ( the story goes that when Channon was selected for his seat in Southend , which had been represented by the family since 1912 , local advertising hoardings were proclaiming ‘ Have Another Guinness ! ’ ) . |
| 18 | The story goes that in September 1665 a parcel of cloth arrived in Eyam from London , where the plague was then rife , and infected the villagers . |
| 19 | The story goes that Wenceslas wished to prove his queen was guilty of adultery and Nepomuk , as the queen 's confessor , denied that she was . |
| 20 | He was also a vegetarian , although the story goes that Chapman persuaded him to eat steaks after hearing that he sometimes felt faint when heading a ball . |
| 21 | Ever since then , as the story goes , journalists have kept up the tradition of ending the final page of each story with the sign -30- . |
| 22 | The story goes that one dismal morning they were detailed to take their Mosquito , ‘ D ’ for Dog , up for testing , and as there had been quite a party in the Mess on the previous evening , neither was feeling in the best of moods as they trudged out to dispersal at the crack of dawn . |
| 23 | The story goes back to the major earthquake , magnitude 7 on the Richter scale , which rocked Greece in February 1981 . |
| 24 | The story goes that it was a very merry party — maybe they were celebrating being able to get in the hay after a bad spell — and they stepped on the bridge to enjoy some music , a very Tallentire thing to do . |
| 25 | She got out of bed too early , so the story goes , because there was so much washing piling up belonging to all the family , as well as me . |
| 26 | Even then he could have been saved , so the story goes , if the giantess Thokk had agreed to shed life-giving tears for him , but for unspecified reasons she refused . |
| 27 | Amaretto di Saronno , so the story goes , was created by a beautiful young widow who , having fallen in love with an artist from Leonardo da Vinci 's school , presented him with the recipe as a token of her love . |
| 28 | The manor of Witton was leased to Jervaulx and one August night , so the story goes , the villagers lay in wait for the thief . |
| 29 | The story goes that whilst the Governor General was paying a visit to the camp certain Luftwaffe officers complained of , amongst other grievances , inadequate seating — the lack of chairs . |
| 30 | The story goes that , one day , the goddess was dusting and picked up a ball of lint dropped by a blue humming-bird , placing it inside her apron . |