Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] it go " in BNC.

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1 John wound up the toy car so it went .
2 That Miss Bedwelty — she 's one of the green welly brigade , only think a horse is any good if it goes sideways and backwards — all that dressage lark — ’ ( Mr Bean called it ‘ Dressidge ’ . )
3 The owners of Flokati were showing Mavis and Walter Bricknell-type behaviour , fluttering about in a nervous anxiety that would be bound to affect the horse if it went on too long .
4 *John wound up the toy car because it went .
5 Your pistons are aluminium because you want a light weight because it going up and down , and if it 's very heavy when th the connecting rod wants to pull it back down again it will want to carry on straight out through the top of the cylinder head .
6 SYLVESTER Stallone took a £1.2 million pay cut to save his latest movie after it went £15 million over budget .
7 ‘ I 've sent for a breakdown lorry-from a garage , so we may be able to salvage the car before it goes right under . ’
8 It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone .
9 Everyone is aware of the sensation experienced in a lift as it starts to descend , and in a car when it goes over a humped-back bridge .
10 she , she knows this car when it goes by
11 Officers saw the car as it went through a red light in Chester Road , Birmingham , at about 3 am .
12 The joker , however , gives the present knowing that in the confusion as it goes off , it may be thrown the wrong way — into the face of the recipient 's partner .
13 However , such hypotheses are expected to emerge from the research as it goes along , rather than be specified from the start and used as a guide to the kind of data that is sought and collected .
14 It 's just a man failing to reappear , that 's all — now you see him , now you do n't that 's the only thing that 's real : here one minute and gone the next and never coming back — an exit , unobtrusive and unannounced , a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on , until , finally , it is heavy with death .
15 Second , you should try and incorporate your questions into the interview as it goes along and not leave them all to the end .
16 When awake , we normally reflect on the stream of consciousness as it goes on .
17 Perceiving the Army as a protective cover for Loyalism , Catholics attacked the march as it went past the Cloned and Ballymurphy areas .
18 Sun Microsystems Inc had to do something to prove it 's muscling into retail like Hewlett-Packard Co so it went and sold Dunkin' Donuts $8m worth of IPC machines to network more than half its 1,600 franchise operations over the next four years .
19 Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations .
20 the light comes on , and then it waits until you start the engine until it goes off
21 ‘ You will , of course , send me a copy of your manuscript before it goes to press . ’
22 Lawyers acting for the Queen are set to try to block Living With The Queen before it goes on sale in the US next month .
23 Theories and explanations must emerge from the work as it goes along .
24 One six zero zero four are not even anything you want to rest on , fundamental problems are each treatment , the processes , and erm distortion of thin rings , which as them er , er , er , an issue when it goes to face grinding , in as much as because of the distortion you get all those lever locks stuck on , and you got to do about twenty passes on t' face grinder rather than two , and that means that we 've got an equipment out of balance in the factory , because er , it 's got , you know , so there 's quite a lot of investment
25 For this valley was scoured out by the most potent of the Pyrenean glaciers , which was fed from the big valleys to the south , of Gavarnie , Cauterets , Gédre and Baréges , and penetrated beyond the point where Lourdes now stands , shaping the topography as it went .
26 I 'd just finished filling the hip flask when it went dark in the bar as a truck pulled up at the traffic lights outside .
27 I like that thing in Ice Cube when it goes time twelve o'clock , knickers hot , dick hard , arse
28 flack if it goes wrong !
29 If you work for a large company , with plenty of in-house techies to repair a computer if it goes wrong , or you are competent — and confident — enough to fix it yourself , then you could be justified in buying cheap and taking a risk .
30 GUINNESS HAS PULLED OUT ALL THE technological stops in its latest marketing drive — and employees were among the first to see the imaginative Taste Sensation before it went out on the road .
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