Example sentences of "[vb past] go [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It let go of Delaney , screaming and clawing at its hooded eyes , as the spray added layer upon layer of foam . |
| 2 | She let go of Adam 's arm and rose ; then looked up at the man who stood there . |
| 3 | Instead he suffered an excruciating pain which made him clasp his heart , and he let go of Sarah so violently she crashed against the newel post . |
| 4 | But he let go of Troy 's neck , and listened . |
| 5 | He let go of Leila who rubbed her wrist , holding it close to her chest . |
| 6 | He remembered a homespun breast rough under his sleepy cheek , and an arm that cradled him , and the steady rocking of the horse under them on the long ride into the fringes of Wales that day ; and suddenly at parting the terrible knowledge in him that , if he let go of Master Harry now , he would never get him back again . |
| 7 | He let go of Garty and shouted : ‘ They be waiting for the Battle this half hour out in St Thomas 's Street . |
| 8 | She let go of Hester and Willie ran to his stepmother , flinging his arms around her . |
| 9 | But he did go to church , so perhaps she was right . |
| 10 | If he did go to Medewich on Thursday . |
| 11 | Well do you know I never knew this I was recently hit by a car and , although not seriously hurt , I did go to casualty to have some cuts cleaned and an X-ray taken to check I had n't broken my ankle . |
| 12 | So David did go to work there , though not without protest . |
| 13 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 14 | And er when I did go to school , er all the bottom of er Mill there used to be all sand banks , and me and the other girl , we we came from this school , to look at this here man with a bear , a big bear . |
| 15 | He did go to school |
| 16 | I did go to night school there to learn joinery . |
| 17 | When she did go to sleep , she had a nightmare . |
| 18 | When I did go to sleep , I went I do n't remember but it was a long while . |
| 19 | You did go to sleep did n't you for a long time ? |
| 20 | but he did go to sleep about then |
| 21 | But I did go to America and so I did n't see the climax of the series , Henry V , until … |
| 22 | Gedanken was about to protest that she did go to discos and parties , and it was no big deal being a girl doing physics , but before she could open her mouth , there came the first question . |
| 23 | You have told me you had a ticket to Miami to go and shoot herself and Jimmy Zaidie but you cancelled it , although I know you did go to Miami subsequently ( around Christmas time 1986 ) to carry out your threat . ’ |
| 24 | In assumpsit in the Common Bench , it was alleged that Brathwait , having killed a man , asked the plaintiff to use his endeavours to obtain him a pardon , wherefore the plaintiff did go to Royston to the King to get the pardon and , in consideration of this service , the defendant promised the plaintiff £100 . |
| 25 | I mean I did go to Denman , but I was n't very well at the time and I did n't get round the house so I would like to go myself . |
| 26 | What is certain is that there is some truth in the portrait : the director of this rapturously successful English a cappella ensemble did go to Winchester and St John 's , Oxford , and does write a column about cricket . |
| 27 | They declared that they would never again go willingly to war without clear political aims ; that when they did go to war for such aims , they would do so with overwhelming force ; and that they would discover , in advance , how they were supposed to get out of a job once they had started it . |
| 28 | Following the children 's departure , the Social Work Department did go to Miss McLeman , the Head Teacher of the primary school in St Margaret 's Hope . |
| 29 | because , but I did go to Hong Kong when I went to China . |
| 30 | Team skipper Sylvia Goodall , 55 , said yesterday : ‘ Some of the girls DID go to extremes — but it was really all in fun . ’ |