Example sentences of "[prep] go [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As solid as a rock and a very tough competitor , Clohessy would have been a perfect choice , particularly after going through the pre-Tour fitness regime . |
| 2 | I finally got out of reception at around half-past seven , after going through the whole procedure , marking off all my stuff again ( which was checked before leaving Holloway ) , and a strip search . |
| 3 | at full moon , after going through the same procedure with the frog or toad . |
| 4 | He spent the first day in bed , after going to the Chinese takeaway to make sure he did n't starve . |
| 5 | Rory Finegan was reported to be considering going to the European Court . |
| 6 | As he puffed the cigar to life , he shook his head , a man weary of going over the same ground again . |
| 7 | I had no intention of going through the proper channels ; it could take weeks . |
| 8 | Speaking from NatWest 's experience of the DTI report on its role in Blue Arrow 's rights issue , Lord Alexander said : ‘ I find it a simply awful process that people of 40 years ’ experience should have to resign on the basis of judgments in the report without having the opportunity of going through the regulatory process that you in Parliament provided . ’ |
| 9 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 10 | But equally you can create suspense out of going to the very edge . |
| 11 | I remember the fear of going up the spiral stairs to bed , the tapestry billowing along the passage with some hidden killer , creaking of wood . |
| 12 | On Saturday the pupils could enjoy the austere pleasures of going into the small granite town of Elgin , something Richard did not enjoy but decided to do because his injured feet ruled out most alternatives . |
| 13 | It 's a bit like that with me , except that instead of going into the technological future I had to go back in time . |
| 14 | I 'm sure you 'll agree it 's a matter of going into the right stock at the right time . |
| 15 | Instead of going into the green room , we went to the girls ' dressing room . |
| 16 | Yeah we 'll restrict it instead of going into the full year |
| 17 | Hitler 's war deprived Wooderson of going into the Olympic arena in Helsinki in 1940 as a hot favourite for the 1500 metres ; Budd 's natural progression was hindered by her country 's policy of apartheid . |
| 18 | Spurs play their possesion futba which looks good but is not at all dangerous — when they had chances for breaks they just kept passing the ball instead of going for the fast break . |
| 19 | They will take initiative for the sake of ‘ the poor and needy strangers ’ , namely those outside the church who have no intention of going near the institutional church . |
| 20 | It may be at a , at a truly rational level we can all perfectly well do all kinds of other things rationally on a truly rational level , because there we have this this er high degree of that comes with rationality , but at a deeper , kind of gut level , the emotional feelings we , we find that it 's , it 's much more difficult , and at that point if you do n't try and change things and do things that are unnatural , you find you 're kind of going against the emotional grain and er perhaps some people find it easier than others , but perhaps everybody will feel a certain erm tug as it were , certain erm discomfort or a certain emotional alienation from themselves which er perhaps is because we 're trying to do something more basic we just were n't designed for . |
| 21 | I would of gone for the four wheel |
| 22 | and had you of gone to the wrong company , right |
| 23 | They would n't of gone in the first place . |
| 24 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 25 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
| 26 | Though I believe that Darwin laid too much stress on biotic interactions as a promoter of evolution and extinction , to the extent of substantially dismissing changes in the physical environment , there is no justification for going to the other extreme , as several examples will illustrate . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps not , and he may have had sentimental reasons for going to the little hut , but I want to be sure . |
| 28 | Finally , with ‘ Do n't walk on the wet edge , you 'll get a verruca ’ ringing in my ears , and ‘ Make sure your hair is BONE dry before you go out into the cold ’ ringing in my brain , we would lay siege to the fish-and-chip shop which was my main reason for going in the first place . |
| 29 | The form allows applicants to state their choice between going to the local office of the department for interview , or having one of their officers call on them at home . |
| 30 | Some Sutton pupils expressed worries about being picked on by the ‘ bigger ones ’ and were concerned about going into the same playground . |