Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Take you all day going all round with a twelfth would n't it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Each time the lighter went about on to a new tack the ballast had to be shifted to the windward side of the boat . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Gillespie had claimed that the gun went off accidentally during a struggle , and he did not intend to harm his wife . |
| 15 | Over the next stile go slightly right onto a track . |