Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] go [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 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 | My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Muslims . |
| 4 | ‘ My heart goes out to the people who are being raped , pillaged and murdered just because they are Bosnian Moslems . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ My heart goes out to the father and to all the family . |
| 6 | ‘ My sympathy goes out to the people of Gateshead who have suffered a similarly sickening attack and I believe the government must now ensure that there is a positive and rapid response to meet the concerns of local residents . ’ |
| 7 | My mind goes back to the original fifteen-year Hospital Plan , published in January 1962 . |
| 8 | My mind went back to the scene in that bedroom and the sliding doors to the paved patio . |
| 9 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 10 | Next day my father went back to the war and my mother back to the boarding school where she was on teaching practice as a French assistante , and spoke to the future wives of doctors and civil servants : Je suis , tu es , il est , nous sommes . |
| 11 | My father went off to the park . |
| 12 | She begs her sister to go up to the top of the tower of the castle and look out for them , and keeps calling out to her , ‘ Anne , sister Anne , dost thou see nothing coming ? ’ |
| 13 | The main opposition party , the right-wing Community party ( Atassut ) , lost three seats , leaving it with eight , as some of its support went over to the Centre Party , which entered the legislature for the first time with two seats . |
| 14 | Sister Rosario looked at the pinched face of Maura Ryan and her heart went out to the child . |
| 15 | Louisa received it so , and her heart went out to the suffering woman . |
| 16 | Charity felt her heart go out to the other woman . |
| 17 | ‘ My father called me Breeze , ’ she added , as he seemed interested ; and as she said that her mind went back to the hot summer 's day when her father had given her the nickname which had been adopted by everyone . |
| 18 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 19 | Its origins go back to the rediscovery of perspective in the Renaissance , and then to the architect 's drawings of the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | In Mary Barton the working-class heroine and her husband go off to the colonies to start a new life . |
| 21 | They strolled through Paris together , after her husband went back to the front . |
| 22 | Its legend goes back to the book of Genesis . |
| 23 | This ice cream boasts American parentage , though its ancestry goes back to the exotic sherbets which were made in the Arab kingdoms of Granada and Cordoba in Spain . |
| 24 | On the evening of a masked ball in the palace she came visiting with Bothwell and other lords , and while she chatted to her husband they — with or without her knowledge went down to the cellar to prepare the gunpowder stored there . |
| 25 | Hot cross buns , Simnel cake and Easter biscuits ( see recipes on page 60 ) contain currants and mixed spices that have been eaten at Lent since Elizabethan times , although their use goes back to the Middle Ages when only the rich could afford spice . |
| 26 | Her hand went out to the telephone , then drew back . |
| 27 | Encouraged by their neighbour 's cheeriness , Ellie and her brother went round to the back of her house and shyly waited to be let in . |
| 28 | Even more drastic intervention was to take place in China ; its roots went back to the control of the Chinese government 's revenue by foreign supervision of the Customs from 1858 onwards . |
| 29 | Booth 's survey also had an influence on a similar movement in the United States , though its roots go back to the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of small surveys on the " dangerous classes " were undertaken . |
| 30 | As a last resort , she and her son went back to the Children 's Home . |