Example sentences of "goes [adv prt] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If it goes down a thirty hole , it 'll be sixty wo n't it cos it 's double score . |
| 4 | When describing the apparent relationship , instead of making the somewhat vague generalization ‘ the higher the X , the higher the Y ’ , the linear summary permits a more precise generalization ‘ every time X goes up a certain amount , Y seems to go up a specified multiple of that amount ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Iron working in the area goes back a long way . |
| 7 | She paused , then added , ‘ It goes back a long way . ’ |
| 8 | Mankind 's love affair with the apple goes back a long way . |
| 9 | The literature on the professions goes back a long way , but seems to have reached a peak in the 1960s and 1970s ( see , for example , Etzioni 1969 ; Jackson 1970 ) , perhaps because the professions were at an apogee of esteem at that point , before the attacks of Illich ( 1977 ) and others who , like Shaw many years before , accused them of establishing a ‘ radical monopoly ’ in the name of meeting people 's ‘ needs ’ . |
| 10 | For BP , involvement in the region goes back a long way . |
| 11 | ‘ That — that our relationship goes back a long way , of course . ’ |
| 12 | The saying , one law for them and another for us , goes back a long way . |
| 13 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 14 | ‘ His family goes back a long way . ’ |
| 15 | However , social historians say couples having non-penetrative sex goes back a long way . |
| 16 | Goes back a long way I 'm afraid . |
| 17 | so she goes back a long way . |
| 18 | Everyone knows that , it goes back a long way . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Ah … well this goes back a LONG time … well back to 1980 I think . |
| 21 | I said , well , I , there must be summat there , out there , she said no , he said , she said it goes back a long time . |
| 22 | The need to catch whales goes back a thousand years or more in Japanese history . |
| 23 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |