Example sentences of "[noun] go [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 A diatonic-scale glissando goes very well with a chromatic scale on the wind , no discrepancy between them being discernible to the ear .
2 In everything , a compromise is the answer and by not expecting the horse to go too close to a potentially spooky object , kidding the horse that you never intended him to go near it , will avert an argument or tension .
3 I forgot to get him a card to go out again for a card .
4 The brakes go on automatically in a runaway . ’
5 For the first time in my life , my hair behaved itself and curled round my face in a manner which I considered most flattering , and my make-up went on well on a skin which did n't have one spot or blemish .
6 That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week .
7 They were quietly fond of each other , and in the bungalow Rory went on often in a way his friends would have been surprised by , a TV and slippers man , or sharing the crossword with his Mam .
8 Hijackers go too slow for a getaway
9 Take you all day going all round with a twelfth would n't it .
10 After that things went more smoothly for a few days , at least until the following Monday .
11 They found that £15 or £20 a week went as far in an erstwhile fishing village on Spain 's Costa Brava as it did at an English seaside hotel or holiday camp , with cheap wine and reliable sunshine thrown in .
12 The second half was played at a faster pace and in the 65th minute Dromara went further ahead with a well taken goal by Johnstone following a fierce attack on the home goal .
13 This self-programming goes on continuously with an implicit acknowledgment of the need for triggers and the relative advantages of various kinds of stores and stored materials .
14 I think the wages went up round about a half a crown the first year or five bob the second year in er er progressing like that .
15 But of course if salaries go up evenly throughout a forty year lifespan and the Chairman is given a forty year lifespan which is quite or pension lifespan which is quite a suitable one , if salaries go up and someone leaves their company every ten years , then the first three departures are obviously going to be at much lower salary levels and it 's not going to be satisfactory the first three departures are just index linked to inflation , there is the problem of how does one index link them towards the final salary .
16 Its nineteenth-century decline in mortality went straight down from a peak in the 1860s to oblivion in the mid-1950s , although notifications remain high to the present day .
17 Each time the lighter went about on to a new tack the ballast had to be shifted to the windward side of the boat .
18 Terribly fast , it was er , er , over his left shoulder going down there like a rate of knots and he 's now telling the other slips , putting his left hand showing where it might have gone .
19 Then with it and the blanket he slipped out of the room , shutting the door quietly and letting the knob go back slowly without a sound .
20 She touched Charity 's hand , and Charity went on flatly after a moment .
21 Guisborough went further ahead through a McLuskey penalty before Redcar full back Richard Forrest ran 70 yards for a superb try just before half time .
22 Mrs Cynthia Jarrett died during a police search of her home in October 1985 , as did a five-year-old boy , John Shorthouse , when a police gun went off accidentally during a search of his home .
23 Gillespie had claimed that the gun went off accidentally during a struggle , and he did not intend to harm his wife .
24 Over the next stile go slightly right onto a track .
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