Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But it worked out that they spent twenty thousand pounds on letting families go round for these three weeks . |
| 32 | His son Alf , the skinhead , had said that he would personally strangle any Muslim he found messing with his wife , adding that if Tehran was such a great place why did n't the bastards go back there ? |
| 33 | Now the sides of the hold and the , the chains used go down , they did n't have wires they had chains go down and with a big ring on the top and then when you 'd the door out , knock the pin out and the door would drop down the mud and cos the ship would come up because she got two side tanks on er a tank each side to bring the ship out of the water . |
| 34 | It also became clear why he 'd wanted to make love to her ; to make her believe he cared , because if she cared for him who better to persuade the colonel to tell his friends on the council to let the plans go through ? |
| 35 | I ran back down , picked it up , heard the coins go in ; then ‘ Bastard ! ’ followed by a series of deafening crashes as plastic met metal and glass . |
| 36 | The former Kent and England spinner Derek Underwood , director of cricket at Club Surfaces , had this to say : ‘ Of course I enjoy seeing our pitches go in at the Etons and Tonbridges , but it is at grass-roots level within the state-schools sector that the wealth of untapped talent must not be lost to the game . ’ |
| 37 | As he drew closer he saw that it was a man huddled beneath a thick overcoat , sitting on the pavement watching the crowds go by . |
| 38 | They stood watching the girls go by , small groups of foreign students or au pairs , leggy and lithe , Indian Summer girls whose presence in Brighton was a far bigger draw for young males than the Royal Pavilion . |
| 39 | And , if an eagle , should its wings go up or stay horizontal ? |
| 40 | After the banquet an Italian performed a subtle and cunning rope trick , then a troupe of girls danced a vigorous whirling jig which left the faces of the spectators , as well as theirs , red with excitement as they kicked their legs high and let their skirts go up , revealing to all and sundry what lay beneath . |
| 41 | When do these prices go up ? |
| 42 | He let five buses go by and the girls kept at him , sure that they knew what he wanted . |
| 43 | DO N'T LET THE TROPICAL RAINFORESTS GO UP IN SMOKE . |
| 44 | Mrs Glews : Well first of all you heard the sirens go off and then you all went down to the shelter and you could hear the planes coming over . |
| 45 | But I mean , people see the police go in , breaking somebody 's door and going in . |
| 46 | That was what made men go on drinking , Huy supposed . |
| 47 | Erm and er that it 's maybe very important at a time like this when children are potentially going and and knocking on stranger 's doors to be particularly careful so what we 've done is is is put together a simple guide for parents and carers erm which suggests that er they should n't just let their children go off for the evening . |
| 48 | ( i.e. would miss seeing children go by on the way to and from school ) . |
| 49 | Could women go out at night without courting rape ? |
| 50 | For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion . |
| 51 | He let the others go on , sat down on a kitchen stool and took it out of his pocket . |
| 52 | And Peggy now patted her grandmother 's hand , saying , ‘ If one could only remember the nice things , the pleasant things , and let others go by ; but it 's always the reverse : the unpleasant things grow like weeds and choke any nice memory you might harbour . ’ |
| 53 | that you would have boys go out with no forewarning , tripping over stumbling blocks here , there and everywhere and girls who are not even allowed to benefit from others ' experience , let alone , have their own . |
| 54 | You sometimes see volleys go in like it … but never a dead ball situation . |
| 55 | He suggested that should these signings go through , the club would be plunged into bankruptcy . |
| 56 | You must n't let these conversations go on too long . |
| 57 | Standing on a wet street corner in Moscow with a fistful of roubles , watching the cabs go by , you soon realize that Soviet taxi drivers have lost all interest in the local currency . |
| 58 | She watched the floors go by , glimpsing the unfinished outlines of empty offices . |
| 59 | We step into the metal box and watch the floors go by as if they were years . |
| 60 | One note of warning : Do n't let your colleagues go on thinking of you as the former messenger once you graduate to production . |