Example sentences of "go [prep] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three paintings fetched three times their expected price , going for over a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 2 | they were going for about a hundred thousand . |
| 3 | Sometimes as adults if a child for instance asks the question ‘ what is death ’ it is very easy to go into quite a long diatribe about life and death and get really profound , whereas in fact all a child may be wanting to know is how do you know if somebody 's dead , how can you tell the difference between somebody being dead and somebody being asleep ? |
| 4 | As you can see this goes into quite a high degree of detail . |
| 5 | She had gone through rather a bad patch since she had come to live in the banqueting hall . |
| 6 | To try to discover the form which put him on the verge of Ryder Cup honours in 1989 he finished 17th on the money list that year Walton has gone through around a dozen putters . |
| 7 | You got ta go at least a hundred |