Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] go [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it . |
| 2 | Suppose the night porter has gone through to the kitchen to make a sandwich . |
| 3 | IN THE first part of this book Michael Shallis gives an interesting non-technical account of how modern physics has gone on from the common-sense notion of time to a whole series of fundamental changes . |
| 4 | hurricane has gone out of the news now , once something like that has happened there 's always another disaster coming behind that actually takes over the headlines , so , about six months , a year , two years afterwards they were still finding that in parts of Europe the general level of nuclear activity was higher than it had been before Chernobyl , why would that happen ? |
| 5 | It 's reassuring to know that even beautiful actresses worry about what they 're gong to wear to go out in the evening . |
| 6 | Like a car needs to go in for the M O T , you 've got ta |
| 7 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 8 | My mind kept going back to the case that was nothing to do with me , the unsolved mystery of the man with a load of live ammunition in his pockets found dead on the Thames mud . |
| 9 | ‘ It would have been just like Jean to have gone along for the journey . ’ |
| 10 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 11 | The brashness had gone out of the sunlight , and the air had a chill . |
| 12 | Back inside , Rafiq had gone back to the thousand-dollar question . |
| 13 | Maisie had gone round to the passenger door of the Volkswagen and was standing , one hand poised to open it as soon as Henry should unlock it . |
| 14 | If the industry had gone along with the sort of scheme that we were urging three or four years ago , it would be well geared up to meeting the challenge now , instead of being caught short by its friends — who I am sure the industry feels have in some way betrayed it . |
| 15 | " That 's O.K. , " said Marion , but by then Sue had gone back into the shop . |
| 16 | Leaflets calling for this protest action had gone out in the name of the underground organization Mwakenya , and were echoed in a BBC World Service broadcast by the exiled writer Ngugi wa Thiongo , but workers were urged by the official Central Organization of Trade Unions to ignore the " seditious leaflets " , and commentators noted an understandable reluctance to identify openly with Mwakenya by supporting its strike call . |
| 17 | Sadly the opposition have gone down with the flu . |
| 18 | A great deal of work has gone on over the past few months . |
| 19 | Local accountability has gone out of the window ; Ministers no longer even talk about it , because they know that it is not a reality . |
| 20 | The actor who played Dirty Den in Eastenders has gone back to the prison where he was once an inmate . |
| 21 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 22 | Mark Frost has gone back as a bowler , though of course he could come again . |
| 23 | The Fishguard-based crabber Inspire went down in a calm sea when a huge wave swamped it . |
| 24 | Auntie Jane kept going on about the violence . |
| 25 | Fenella had gone back to the bed-chamber and pulled on her boots and found the warm woollen cloak she had brought from Renascia while Caspar had raided the sculleries and packed the maps . |
| 26 | It was dusk , and the evening was as still and airless as the previous one when , impatient for news , Zen had gone out for a stroll . |
| 27 | In 1914 the art schools had all but atrophied ; the models had gone off to the munitions factories , and students had been replaced by retired businessmen seeking distraction from their troubles . |
| 28 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 29 | She was not disappointed ; if a firebell had gone off within a yard of his ear , he could not have appeared more shaken . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , because he had had a source of comfort , the moment Ellie left to go back to the house his mournful howls increased in volume . |