Example sentences of "[n mass] go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These statistics go on and on — quite interesting if you can fight your way through the jin and mu to find out what is really happening — and are frequently laced with political remarks about following ‘ our great leader Chairman Mao 's revolutionary line ’ , and the ‘ wise leadership of Chairman Hua ’ , with the inevitable explanation of how the Gang of Four sabotaged agriculture , just as they sabotaged everything else . |
| 2 | BELFAST could soon see annual profits of over £1m go up in smoke and become a dumping ground for waste from all over Europe , it was warned today . |
| 3 | By all means go round the world once , work for a year in Sydney and sink a goldmine in Oklahoma , but come home to that beloved castle or cabin at Little Puddington you must . |
| 4 | The number line method works when you have to add or subtract and ordinary positive number plus three means go up three , minus three means go down three . |
| 5 | The number line method works when you have to add or subtract and ordinary positive number plus three means go up three , minus three means go down three . |
| 6 | The main thing for us was stopping the office because that 's where sales go on . |
| 7 | Instead , I found that military firms are to blame for selling all the arms to these poor countries and most of the sales go on without the governments knowing . |
| 8 | HIV prevention workers in the district health authority here training prison staff go out to gay mens groups , prisons and young peoples groups . |
| 9 | Staff go back to school to parlez Francais |
| 10 | Often people go on to say something apparently absurd like , ‘ But he said he 'd be home early tonight , ’ or ‘ But he never said goodbye ’ , as though in some way the person concerned knew he was going to die . |
| 11 | All able-bodied people go on about how horrible the changing-room experience is — how awful because my bra is dirty , or I 'm too fat or too thin — but disabled girls : how do you even begin to assess your own emotions on entering a changing room with young able-bodied women , most of them slim but all saying , ‘ Oh , I 've got a horrible body ’ , when you 're in a wheelchair , just wanting to try on a pair of trousers ? |
| 12 | But then people go on about his past , the drug dealing and that . |
| 13 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 14 | A fast-growing proportion of young people go on to higher education ; and we want to see that proportion rise still further . |
| 15 | But in spite of the unhappy marriages , people go on marrying and remarrying , do n't they ? |
| 16 | Oh yes er a local people coming home always like to take farmhouse cheese away and Orkney people go on away on holiday again like to take ones off to their friends and relatives in the south too . |
| 17 | Is n't that more or less how most people go on ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ People go on about my goalscoring now and expect me to score in every game now I 've hit a purple patch . |
| 19 | We shall go on expanding higher and further education to ensure more of our young people go on to college as naturally as they once went down the pit or onto the shop floor . |
| 20 | I mean if if presumably people go on being born there surely we should leave them . |
| 21 | Some people go round |
| 22 | He does n't , he does n't when i , when just ordinary people go round do they ? |
| 23 | The stages that people go through during a transition are well charted ( see figure ) . |
| 24 | and outside where those students sit , I thought the young people were when you read some of that in paper the cigarette ends and crisp packets , well that can only be the students , I mean people go through but they 're not |
| 25 | Subtle but damning variations of idiolect are unlikely to count for much in a country where people go around wearing tee-shirts inscribed with things like ‘ The essence of brave 's aerial adventure : the flight 's academy of the American east club with the traditional gallery of Great Britain diesel ’ . |
| 26 | never , I mean some people go around just like twins do n't they ? |
| 27 | Erm , people go around trying to get data for the er , subject for discussion , and if it 's rain , they do n't find any proper average of the |
| 28 | My own research with young people in Edinburgh and Lothian Region has placed such problems squarely in the context of adult violence to children in public places and pointed to the frequency with which young people go around in gangs or carry weapons usually as a response — however ill-judged — to crimes they suffer . |
| 29 | As a film like Scandal , which dealt with the Profumo affair , might make young people go back and check out more about what was happening in the early sixties , so I was doing the same in terms of the fifties . |
| 30 | How many people go back home and say I had an affair ? |