Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have go [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Now we cross to the other side of the no go area but turning is called tacking , and so to make ground for wind width we have to go in a series of zig-zags , each time turning for about ninety degrees and see that the sail is kept full most of the time only flapping momentarily as the boat turns directly through the eye of the wind .
2 Well Lindsey she 's to go to a disco night in in a fortnight 's time all her friends she says are going .
3 Thus in a self-contract he may make a contract such as ‘ if at the end of the week I have gone without a drink , or lost x lbs in weight , I can buy myself … ’ .
4 After leaving the letter in a drawer she had gone to a nearby town and booked in at a hotel .
5 In the past she has gone as a pillion passenger on husband Steve 's bike .
6 Within an hour he had gone from a hospital ward to the training pitch .
7 To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home .
8 Before her mother 's house she had gone through a winter in a squat that had no heating at all .
9 In a lifetime they have gone from a self-assured majority to a beleaguered minority , strangely distanced from the city that has grown up around them .
10 As I have said , after the abandonment of his undertaking uniform he had gone through a dodgy bookie/snake-oil purveyor period .
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