• Heavy freight that goes long distances, from Auckland to Wellington, should travel by road.
• Dozens of families boarded a vintage steam train and went the short distance up the track to see Santa in his grotto.
• The other kind of holiday I like is going 10 miles from where you live, so that you have hardly any travelling time.

• I had gone to visit my parents for the weekend, and my mother drove me to the Greyhound station for my return trip.
• I was actually thinking of going to visit him this week.
• ‘Let's go shopping tomorrow,’ she said, in between bites of her lunch.

• She regularly goes to the movies and attends film festivals.
• This isn't surprising, though, since attending church is like going to the theatre.
• More often than not, she attends opening ceremonies, goes to parties, meets people and takes part in charity work for the local community.

• We opened the bridge that goes across the river so people can go back and forth.
• The mirror went all the way up to the ceiling and was just as wide as it was tall.
• Her black hair went down to her shoulders and looked as though she had her own person stylist come in and do it every morning.

Synonyms

• The bank's share price also went up by 3.6 per cent to 1223 pence.
• Those subsidies cause the global market to be flooded with farm products, driving down prices and making it harder for Third World farmers to make a living.
• I only bring the subject up because of the news on the front page of last week's Daily Record that the price of a pint is to go up by 10p.

• ‘On your marks, get set, go!’ Coach Henderson blew the whistle.
• When I say go, run as fast as you can to that rock on your right and hide behind it.
• All right: ready, steady, go!

• I told her to go to hell, and she screamed several things back at me, but I really didn't care.
• ‘Go to hell,’ Isabelle muttered, but even she wasn't brave enough to say that loud enough for him to hear.
• My husband and I still disagree, but I just tell him to go and get stuffed.

• Will was alarming me more and more with every second that went past.
• Anyway, this week went by fairly smoothly.
• With just over four minutes gone it was again level at 24 apiece.

Synonyms

• That's the longest I've gone without one for many years.
• You know, anybody who's gone without sleep, even for just one night, knows that it can really sort of, you know, mess with your head.
• Teenagers went without food for a whole day to raise money for orphans in Africa.

• Those golden days, if they ever existed, are long gone in most professional sports.
• The days of a manager commanding respect from his players simply because of who he is are long gone if they ever existed at all.
• The a la carte menu's gone and she now serves traditional, home-cooked grub.

Synonyms

• The house did not suffer any structural damage but when the lightning hit the house there was an enormous bang, the fuses blew and the power went.
• I was riding my scooter down a steep hill, with a pillion passenger on the back, when the brake cable went.
• The electricity is gone, and food and water are running out.

• I think possibly his death might have been a little easier to handle because I was young and I didn't quite understand but when my grandfather went it hit me like a ton of bricks just because I was that bit older and I know he wasn't coming back.
• But when I'm gone it will be taken from my estate.
• Long after I'm gone, some kid can walk into a place and see an image of me and read what I did in the NFL.

Synonyms

• I think I was just worried that we'd come back and all the equipment would have gone.
• I went up to my locker, only to discover that the lock was missing and half my books were gone.
• When Wood returned to the truck parked on Panorama Drive, her bike was gone along with two others belonging to friends visiting from Washing-ton state.

Synonyms

• The first award went to Manchester's Christie Hospital for its pioneering work in cancer treatment and research.
• The best international group award went to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pink took home best international female title.
• Last year the award went to N.H. Dini, one of Indonesia's most famous female writers.

Synonyms

• The money had gone in excessive compensation and unapproved bonuses, fees and loans.
• Perhaps that is the reason why no one knows where the billion dollars in aid money went.
• But what if you don't have a say about where your tax money goes?

Synonyms

• We watched the movies David's mum had rented for us before we finally decided to go to sleep.
• By the time the movie was over it was well past midnight, so they both decided to go to sleep.
• She left corporate America in 1992 to take a real-estate appraising course and soon went into business for herself.

• This is due to an unfortunate event affecting our home computer - basically, it went bang.
• They used a flash grenade, it went bang and the whole place lit up.
• The elevator went ping and the doors opened.

• Just about anything goes, probably because anything went in the family home on Belfast's Ormeau Road.
• In a city where anything goes and everything is possible, six strangers are about to be given the chance of a lifetime!
• It's the abolition of all standards that has caused the permissive society that we live in, where anything goes and laws can be broken.

• Who says that art and commerce don't go together?
• Drum, who holds a journalism degree from California State University, admits to ‘some doubt about whether blogging and professional journalism can go together’.
• For adults the back to school date signals an end to summer and all that goes with it - normality has returned.

• But something other than money, even vast piles of it, keeps Bond going.
• All cooking was done over an open fire, which also their source of heat and which was kept going all the year round.
• The organisation promotes physical activity and health through country walking, and the money will keep it going for the next year.

• These three steps will go a long way towards lowering the risk of virus infection on the internet.
• I can't promise any miracles, but a small amount of regular practice can go a long way, over time.
• Their meager paychecks didn't go very far, but the stores didn't have many products to sell anyway.

• On the corner Agnes, Will, and Casper were waiting by a large mailbox and Agnes was trying to fit her head through the tiny slot where the mail goes.
• Slowly pour the liquid until the reservoir is close to full (basically to the point where no more liquid goes in).
• ‘It's like a key to a door,’ he says. ‘You're sure you've got the right key. But it just won't go in the damned lock.’

• It turns out that fibromyalgia went by a different name two centuries ago.
• I remember when Pearl was at high school, there was this one guy who went by the name Jim Silk.
• Nancy may be going by the name ‘Flora’ and may have altered her appearance to look like an older woman.

• I was still sat there when this cop comes up and goes, ‘You best be clearing off and getting home son.’
• Then this punk is like talking to his teacher, and the teacher goes, ‘You've got no grip on reality do you boy?’
• So I kind of went ‘yeah, good to meet you’, and he turned around and I never said another word to him; he couldn't have cared less!

• In summary, if you receive a demand for the return of overpaid tax credits, don't feel obliged to pay it all in one go.
• He poured himself a glass of milk and downed it in one go.
• At thirty quid a go, there was no way I'd try it.

• What a busy week. It is just go go go and no rest for the wicked.
• Alexa had started work at 6 am and it had been all go ever since.
• All in all, his life seems to be all go, as he has some other projects in hand as well, but he is enjoying it.

• He's had this nasty go of dysentery, it's left him really rather weak.