Example sentences of "[pron] go [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No-one goes into a loose scrum with the intention of inflicting injury on an opponent . |
| 2 | He adds sadly : ‘ It 's impossible for me to go on a quiet date as I get recognised everywhere and asked for autographs . ’ |
| 3 | The Prince wants me to go to a bloody ball . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They want me to go to a mental hospital , Mum . ’ |
| 5 | I told her : ‘ This is almost my favourite kind [ of book ] — when someone goes to a decaying country house , and finds a lot of odd people in it . |
| 6 | Every time I go into a new archive I just ca n't believe what I 'm discovering . |
| 7 | If I put on a vacuum cleaner and lie beside it , I go into a complete trance because the one note ringing inside the machine seems to relax me and hypnotise me . |
| 8 | Subject : I go for a good win |
| 9 | ‘ I go to a different school , ’ said the boy . |
| 10 | ‘ I have a year-old little boy and I get very bored sometimes , even though I go to a mother-and-toddler group now and again . |
| 11 | Every time I go through a lean spell I 've lost a yard ; every time I score a goal it means I 'm over the hepatitis . |
| 12 | Er I do a plug the alb of the album Midnight Postcards we call it , I 'm plugging that now until Christmas , promoting that er on television and radio , and I er in between I go on a short holiday to Africa and then January I start Alfie until May , and then I think I 'm gon na do a T V movie or a movie in June July , and then in end of July I go to America for four four till the end of November with Alfie . |
| 13 | Someone went to a car-rental firm in North Oxford in the early afternoon and hired a Vauxhall Cavalier . |
| 14 | He said that if the SS took them away , would I go to a certain street in Berlin , to a certain family and tell them . |
| 15 | Do you keep it or should I go to a larger store ? ’ |
| 16 | He explained everything to me and I went across a big courtyard , through a door into a large hall , then up some stairs and along a landing turning left towards an outside terrace down to the lawns at the rear of the Palace . |
| 17 | I went to a small dressmaker in Lillie road with some material brought from Newfoundland on one of the brief dockings . |
| 18 | Well then I went to a private school on Road , two maiden ladies kept that , and we were taught to er walk properly , sit properly , dance , music , learnt the piano there , and embroider , and erm chiefly the educational side of schooling was almost non-existent . |
| 19 | But I went to a private school after that , I went to one run by a Mr , Mr E M . |
| 20 | I went to a Young Pioneer dance in Moscow … . ’ |
| 21 | I went to a co-educational school and I was not aware of any pressure for girls to go into arts and boys into science . |
| 22 | My father did well in his business and I went to a good school . |
| 23 | I went to a holistic conference and asked the question , how do you tackle the problem of emotional eating ? ’ |
| 24 | I went to a sensitivity-training center and I learned body language , but it did n't help my marriage , because I was a tool of male imperialism and that was what I was really resenting all the time . |
| 25 | ‘ I went to a third doctor and said , ‘ I 've got a parasite , probably a botfly larva , whose life-cycle is … ’ and the doctor said : ‘ Botfly ? |
| 26 | I went to a local DIY store and picked out a can of own-brand paint which stated it was for exterior decoration . |
| 27 | Before the legalities had been completed , early in 1973 , I went to a local youth club to show slides of my work as a missionary . |
| 28 | When I had depression I went to a self-help group . |
| 29 | It got more painful — so I went to a different doctor , who said it was an infected sebaceous cyst and gave me stronger antibiotics . |
| 30 | And then after that I went to a public school but er to those years er I just followed the pattern . |