Example sentences of "go [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Peace , a Victorian villain , once commented that the dangerous constable was the one who ‘ neglects his duty to go courting the servant , or nips up the entry to get a surreptitious drink . |
| 2 | You had to go a-shoeing the horse as best you could . |
| 3 | We arranged to go swimming the next day . |
| 4 | Then one evening as she was tidying up the room he said as quietly as if he were taking rifle aim , ‘ There 's no need for you to go turning the whole place upside down . |
| 5 | Well , th yes , well that 's it , they are going facing the station and it used to be so much prettier than it is now . |
| 6 | attracting nobody , she 's going scratching the eyes like you sounded . |
| 7 | I do n't think this is the moment to go slamming the door ’ . |
| 8 | and while Martin Dugard goes chasing the speedway title in Austria … over in Hungary … |
| 9 | Do n't go eating the yew tree , either . " |
| 10 | You went walking the dogs ? |
| 11 | Do n't go slanging the recruiter right . |
| 12 | Next day while the young lord went hunting the fox kept watch . |
| 13 | When the bell went sounding the end of the day we packed up and put our chairs on the desk . |
| 14 | Never having foreseen James would suddenly develop a sense of extra-office responsibility for me , I had rather let myself go describing the flat of a rich friend which allayed James 's earlier mild concern about where I was living . |
| 15 | ‘ We went to Druid 's Bottom and we saw Mister Johnny , gobble-gobble-gobble , and we went milking the scholly-ka , and we had roast pork for dinner … |
| 16 | Paul : I 'm on Planet Jacinta and the vibes have gone fishing the dog ate my copy sir |
| 17 | After all , Dickens had had the decency to keep it to himself , not go telling the world about it . |
| 18 | The boy searched around the area but the man , or whatever had been a human , had gone leaving the boy bewildered and confused . |
| 19 | Spencer was only caught after his victim went scouring the streets of the city looking for him and the other attackers . |
| 20 | Of Condition In If it rains today I sha n't go shopping the clause if it rains today qualifies sha n't go . |
| 21 | Make a list of what essential food you will need for the first day in your new home and go shopping the day before you move . |
| 22 | So let's catch up with all the action as we go spinning the globe . |
| 23 | maybe it was the battle of the Somme , I do n't remember , but I remember I had to go carrying the basket , and mother would go and call on these poor people who had lost their their families . |
| 24 | Of the infamous ‘ security ’ poor people might worry about , here was none , of course — no one bothered to go murdering the rich , they did not care enough about their beliefs . |
| 25 | She was saving up to go skiing the next January and she knew there was n't much chance of Adam repaying a loan by then . |
| 26 | FRINGE BENEFITS Colin Ward expects open-air readers to go Beating the Bounds |
| 27 | I 'm not a churchgoer and I 've no call to go visiting the Rectory . |
| 28 | He said to go shopping the next day in case I was being watched . |