Example sentences of "[noun] goes the " in BNC.

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1 Right , and the other story goes The angels go to Be
2 mm , cos listen to what I mean , Ollie goes , I was sitting next to Ollie yeah and she looks at my thingy , yeah , and she goes that 's what , you 've missed out three , so I sat there writing all the nec numbers , yeah , and miss goes the other table and I 'm like oh come on Carla hurry up and do the numbers inside , and I missed , I just could n't , I could n't catch up
3 If the fight goes the distance , there might hardly be the thickness of a stamp between them unless Chris ups his recent workrate .
4 The further out from York the new settlement goes the less self contained it will be , the more the tendency will be for travel into the city , which is the main service centre to be car based .
5 Down goes the axe .
6 Along with this imaginative , inspirational side of the mind goes the capacity — better developed in some than in others — for intuition .
7 I think very often the influence goes the other way .
8 Traditionally , I always feel that the influence goes the other way .
9 ELL , I 've had a happy life ’ — as Hazlitt may not have said after all , in which case bang goes the cheeriest of all the Famous Last Words .
10 Bang goes the diet
11 Pop goes the weasel .
12 Like pop goes the weasel .
13 Well that 's the original Pop goes the Weasel song .
14 With the job goes the enormous responsibility of ensuring that the equipment is always on top form .
15 With the academic thirst for knowledge goes the academic 's well-publicized thirst for alcoholic refreshment .
16 But the touch of class does not happen by accident and into every piece of flooring goes the wide-ranging skills of the UK company 's workforce .
17 Coupled with her hope that the war may end in a stalemate goes the hope that she may never be obliged to become a belligerent nation .
18 POLICY GOES THE FULL CIRCLE
19 ‘ I think we can beat Glenavon but will have to keep our fingers crossed that the other game goes the right way for us , ’ he said .
20 Tap-tap-tap goes the ancient forester with his trusty axe , runically carving a cleft in a knotted trunk to warn his fellow-woodsmen of a noxious toadstool which groweth hereabouts .
21 When the start signal goes the boards are free to start by sailing out close behind the start board on starboard tack .
22 We should turn off the television and play Scrabble instead , so that our minds are challenged : ‘ If the economy goes the way we think it will , your extra brain power will come in handy . ’
23 The deeper down a tunnel goes the more dangerous it is and the more likely it is to be inhabited by some terrible monster .
24 So the first man goes the house and he goes and opens the door and you hear the door .
25 And Jean-Claude goes the war is over .
26 And so on and so on for another hour and a half , sweating and dazed , until at 4.48 a.m. , extremely painfully , out comes young Tom ( not such a bad name ; commonplace , I know ) , emerging head looking like a terrifically cross blue Brussels sprout , splosh go the fluids , splat goes the placenta and there he is .
27 one hand goes one way , one hand goes the other , break it open , put the cardboard away and you need to be ready to try before you pull the next bit off do n't you because as soon as you 've opened that it 's not sterilized any more , so you open that up and you find , unwrap it
28 ‘ The wild duck wherries to the distant flood … ''Whizz goes the peewit o'er the ploughman 's team/ with many a whew and whirl and sudden scream … ’ 'A sedge bird built its little benty nest/ close by the meadow-pool and wooden brig … ’
29 Hand-in-hand with this notion of what constitutes mathematics goes the perception of how it is to be learned .
30 So far as desktop publishing goes the dominant range here is supplied by Bitstream , indeed most packages seem to provide the basic Dutch ( Times ) and Swiss ( Helvetica ) faces free of charge .
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