Example sentences of "[noun] go [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian .
2 What we are doing is what is being done er in the market generally there is nothing unique about British Airways position in this regard , in the event the European commission er should find against er our interest in this respect er they are in effect going to find against the interest er of the er European airlines as a whole , and that would be very detrimental to the interest of European business and travellers .
3 " Bloody filthy accumulating middle-class creeps " — and papers , jars , boots , rags went hurtling through the trap around Mary and Reggie .
4 There was n't much to it , just painted ply over a cardboard shell , and its lock went spinning across the room at the second kick .
5 But he came ra racing out the office after her when he heard car go roaring past the office .
6 After waking the older girl , her mother went back into the house to finish her coffee , and almost immediately heard first one , then several other cars go speeding up the lane past the door .
7 Many years ago , according to the legend , the first daughter of his people 's lineage went missing in the forest .
8 But when he had had the effrontery to go whining to the constable , attempting to get back the money for which he had , after all , sold his twisted little soul , no one in St Jude 's Street could remember seeing or hearing anything about the accident at all .
9 ‘ What 's Nails going to ride in the competition then ?
10 Warming to his theme , Herbert , who keeps a bad-tempered parrot called Red Cross in his garden , continues : ‘ I remember my parents going to stay with the Duchess of Portland .
11 Youngsters go dancing in the sun
12 When she was n't shopping , or receiving calls , or at the dressmakers , Topaz went riding during the day accompanied by Angela and Oswin .
13 Well you 're talking about that concert and what are you and Rhiannon going to do for the whole of the summer when you finish in June ?
14 How long are the groups going to need for the task ?
15 ‘ I 've no desire to go running round the world .
16 It took about a year to organize , partly because the idea blossomed in the summer , too late for that year ; it is not the sort of place to go cycling in the winter .
17 Julia went to sit in the kitchen , trying to stop applying what she had just heard to her own situation .
18 Irena whispered , but the sound went echoing round the room .
19 Do you know when Gordon goes rushing through the station ?
20 ’ About a valuable objet gone missing from the planet Ardakke .
21 The taxi went hurtling across the junction with Cranbourn Street doing sixty .
22 A spokesman confirmed that they probably come from the Bremen Kunstverein , from which fifty paintings , 1,715 drawings and 3,000 prints went missing at the end of the war , and that experts are still examining them .
23 The draft position paper goes sliding over the edge of the desk into the waste-paper basket as I snatch up the receiver .
24 and they 're doing it again and again and again , it suits them , it suits the ones that are really rich to have ordinary people struggling like that and it suits them not to have that two hundred pounds a week going in to help those people and they 're the people who it suits who will decide whether that two hundred pounds a week goes to help on the mortgage or put them into what is it , a bed and , a bed and breakfast ?
25 To revert to the metaphor of weighing , in choices of means the traveller would be the weigher , but in this choice of an end he is the arm of the balance , and when the information is assimilated the impulse to go prevails over the reluctance to take the risk as the arm goes up or down when the balance is fully loaded .
26 ‘ There 's no one of any consequence in London at the moment , ’ she told him , ‘ but you wo n't be able to move for the millions of nobodies going to look at the Tower . ’
27 for all the time that we have to sit behind you when we 're trying to drive around blowing our horns going get out the way .
28 Which is why you s when you set it up , you 've got to say , Well what are people going to do at the end of the workshop , that demonstrates that they 've learnt something from it ?
29 can I , very briefly , how is traffic going to enter into the village if option one is in fact stopped
30 Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow .
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