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

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1 The main route goes along a narrow elevated ridge from Gray Crag to Thornthwaite Crag where you 'll find the tallest cairn in the Lake District at around 20ft high .
2 Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road .
3 Our most controversial cover last year showed a photograph of a red car going around a Swiss hairpin , with the headline ‘ Ford 's new Escort meets its rivals ’ , and then , underlined in red , ‘ … and loses ’ .
4 A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ .
5 Because of the Government 's apparent lack of enthusiasm for all things European , and their determination to go along a slow track , will not Scotland lose out again without any chance of the central bank being cited in Glasgow or Edinburgh ?
6 So if you put a big heavy engine going down a cast iron railway which wo n't
7 Slazenger and sport go back a long way but did you know that they also have a great sports toiletries range ?
8 It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit .
9 And this filled the perverse daughter with a great desire to go even a little way into the wild wood , where there were no plates and no stitching , but might well be a need of such things as she knew she had it in herself to perform .
10 Needless to say I got a little excited and told him to quietly shut the engine down and if he wanted to wash the coveralls tonight in gasoline to go about a hundred and fifty yards over there .
11 I set about building up an act with the aid of Rag magazines , joke-books , a gag nicked from here , a gag nicked from there and at my next engagement , four days later , I was billed as a comic and my fee went up a few quid .
12 ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’
13 Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way .
14 Iron working in the area goes back a long way .
15 The old woman went along a short passage , passed a scullery and continued on a few yards .
16 After all , his links to Christian democracy went back a long way .
17 However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way .
18 This awareness goes back a long time , and to Lace it we need to leave the field of folklore and go back into the realms of ancient philosophy .
19 The roots of his disciplinarianism go back a long way .
20 The assumptions behind this unfortunate word go back a long way .
21 Erm , and therefore it feels it would be disingenuous of it to support the principle at this stage , it may well lead to a situation where were encouraging the County to go down a particular route , but only to get to the very end of it for us to pull the rug from beneath the County 's feet .
22 US cities are different from British cities in that , housing goes down a long chain of ownership , becoming more downgraded with each owner , because the wealthy continually build new houses .
23 Just before the line went dead a sharp click sounded as an extension was replaced .
24 ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’
25 The final stage goes up a smooth incline that appears to have been man-made , possibly to ease the passage of materials for the erections on the top .
26 For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way .
27 The roots of the UK 's industrial decline go back a long way , certainly more than a century .
28 If Coleby 's overheads at the development stage go over a certain figure , he may decide that the game 's not worth the candle .
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