Example sentences of "[noun] go [adv prt] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times to go down to the pits and the sun came out . |
| 2 | WHILE my heart goes out to the parents in the baby-swop drama , I have to agree with the midwife interviewed on TV who said that it was ‘ a disaster waiting to happen ’ . |
| 3 | The very important interest JCI has in the diamond industry goes back to the days when Barney Barnato , together with Cecil Rhodes played an important role in the establishment of De Beers in Kimberley . |
| 4 | Once Ranulf had gone , Athelstan sat on the altar steps , his mind going back to the corpses he had seen : Vechey 's lying cold amongst those dreadful heads on the tower gate of London Bridge ; Brampton 's sheathed in dirty canvas in the death house of St Mary Le Bow ; Springall 's lying alone under its leather covering in the great four poster bed in his mansion . |
| 5 | Taking a hint from the fame and antiquity of Egyptian flax working , Roberts went off to the banks of the Nile to study the Temple of Karnak , and came back to build Mr Marshall a factory in like fashion , which soon became known , naturally enough , as the Temple Mill . |
| 6 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 7 | As Penny went over to the drinks table the headmaster was in full spate . |
| 8 | Carol went back to the others and Linda cast one quick final look at her preparations for tea and for the dinner tomorrow . |
| 9 | By Sunday morning , though , they had both their parents ' blessing , and Sebastian went off to the Greens ' house to get more details of the flat from Rosemary . |
| 10 | Although they were public servants answerable to the Home Secretary , the Prison Commissioners had a separate existence going back to the reforms of the late Nineteenth Century . |
| 11 | For them , he said , there was a need to go back to the basics of spelling , grammar , punctuation and arithmetic . |
| 12 | Sunday morning say the start of the ladies ' competition with St Albans A and Mutineers going through to the semis to play St Albans B and Woodmill respectively , the latter two having been given byes to this stage . |
| 13 | Sponsored by Bass , the tournament attracted a good entry of 18 pairs , with the winners and runners-up of each group going through to the semi-finals . |
| 14 | In Mary Barton the working-class heroine and her husband go off to the colonies to start a new life . |
| 15 | The CAB has become quite used to responding to emergencies , so when a bureau is alerted to an impending crisis and the clients are unlikely to be able to visit the bureau , the workers go out to the clients . |
| 16 | The origins of Sudan 's severe debt crisis go back to the policies pursued from the early 1970s onwards . |
| 17 | Of course , the concept of a liberal education goes back to the Greeks , and Newman 's lectures and books were only one more interpretation of an idea which as Rothblatt ( 1976 ) clearly shows has demonstrated a remarkable adaptability and longevity . |
| 18 | If the right hon. Gentleman goes back to the incidents to which he was referring , he will find that they were not ones that could naturally and immediately be followed by a statement . |
| 19 | Indeed late news stories can be added just moments before the final pages go off to the printers . |
| 20 | Later in the afternoon Owen went along to the bearers ’ room . |
| 21 | The traditional sympathy between Berlin and St Petersburg went back to the partitions of Poland . |
| 22 | A complaint goes off to the powers . |
| 23 | In thesimpler organisms , the feedback signal goes back to the boundaries on which the stimuli impinge . |
| 24 | I made a fuss about being first in the queue going down to the car-decks . |
| 25 | ‘ My daughter 's dog an Alsatian called Prince went over to the men but we called it back when they said they 'd kill it . |
| 26 | I share the view of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East that it does not make sense to go back to the days of the red flag , but we must find a compromise between the passenger 's interest , which is the interest of the railways , and the pedestrian 's interest . |
| 27 | If the poem goes back to the origins of religion , it also goes back to the origins of society and language . |
| 28 | Others , being anciently established , also have manuscript materials going back to the days of their foundation in the Middle Ages or the Tudor period . |
| 29 | Jenny 's daddy did n't know how to thank her enough , either , when he came up — especially when he and Miss Clinton went down to the Brownies ' Bridge and saw the swollen river and realised how very brave Jenny had been to cross it . |
| 30 | the solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |