Example sentences of "go [prep] a shop " in BNC.
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1 | And , like , one policeman going into a shop , you 've a bit of a chace that on your own people will talk to you . |
2 | What other explanation could there possibly be for going into a shop , flicking through rails of attractive fuchsia , cobalt and aquamarine outer-garments , and saying to the assistant , ‘ Have you got any grey ones ? ’ |
3 | A default colour palette will be displayed on the screen from which you select colours for your woolbox , rather like going into a shop , choosing cones of different colour yarns and putting them into a bag to take home ! |
4 | Yeah , but there again you see they 're , you 're not going into a shop saying oh they look nice |
5 | That 's odd , going into a shop that sells everything else but no cigarettes . |
6 | I used to go into a shop and I 'd shake and I 'd know that I was doing wrong and I 'd be really scared and I 'd just knew I do n't want to go to prison so I decide to stop it . |
7 | I go about in a wheelchair and someone who pushes it very often goes into a shop and says , ‘ Look here , you have bought rather a lot of things I think you had better give a cheque for them — now I ? I write the cheque out , dear , and you shall sign it . ’ |
8 | A man goes into a shop and says , ‘ Can I have Death Wish II , please ? ’ |
9 | And she 's bringing Alia and Adem to play with you We 're just going to Beckenham because we have to go to a shop there . |
10 | She do n't go near a shop . |
11 | I think every child goes through a stage where they go into a shop and nick something : they just want to see whether they can get away with it . |
12 | And now that you know that Carol and I are there erm , you know somebody to speak to , cos sometimes you go into a shop and you 're not really sure who 's there , and when you see a face that you recognize it helps you does n't it ? |
13 | If you go into a shop , there are n't very many shops besides somewhere like Traidcraft who will know so |
14 | now he passed that on , that had , sort of knowledge on through the people in the shop okay , if you , soon as that link gets broken and you go into a shop something like erm Burtons okay , big retail shop like Burtons , you go in there you 'll have a manager in there and assistants and so on , but their background knowledge has nothing to do with tailoring , nothing at all |
15 | But always the world in which you could go into a shop and buy as much bread and potatoes as you liked was remote . |
16 | Even knitting wool was on ration , but for a time a keen knitter could go into a shop and buy up hanks of thin darning wool ( un-rationed ) and use that to knit with , until some spoilsport in the Government ruined that idea by decreeing that all darning wool should be cut into approximately twenty inch lengths before it was put into the shops . |
17 | ‘ I thought I saw your mother go into a shop . |
18 | You can go into a shop and start purchasing this item not knowing your partner is there and the partner suddenly appears and then the confrontation starts bearing in mind you are not |
19 | You ca n't go into a shop and steal . |
20 | Living is where I could go into a shop and say … |
21 | Yes , even if I go anywhere , if I go to , go into a shop I always lock the car always . |
22 | He theorized that she went into a shop and lashed out a bob or two on something like a tin of baked beans . |
23 | Men who only went into a shop for ‘ baccy ’ , matches or a paper , were sent round to the local grocer 's and butcher 's shops to buy up everything that was n't nailed down . |
24 | Last week I went into a shop in which Andy Williams was gently exhorting the customers to have a merry , happy , lovely , beautiful , etc , etc . |
25 | If she went into a shop and something caught her eye — a book of Matisse drawings , a record , Yin and Yang earrings , a Chinese hat — she bought it immediately . |
26 | Then she went into a shop and said : ‘ Do you realise mummy ca n't come into your shop because there 's such a big step . ’ |
27 | Three of them went into a shop , in a baker 's shop , why I was n't with them that day I do n't know cos we was always together , our four . |
28 | Mr Tweddle said the driver parked while his wife went into a shop and when he saw her returning he started the car and reversed . |
29 | It was difficult to imagine she had bought the dress on purpose , had one fine day long past gone into a shop and tried on dress after dress and , finally , taking this grey and unbecoming tube of cloth from a rack laden with many-coloured garments , slipped it over her head , examined herself fore and aft in the changing cubicle mirror , smiled with pleasure , clapped her hands in approval and said to herself : ‘ This is lovely , this is the very thing , ’ while a curled , perfumed salesgirl hovered , saying : ‘ But it 's perfectly you , madam . ’ |
30 | Like many others , I suspect , I have gone into a shop of whatever description linked to a current hobby , have asked a few pertinent questions , and have then exited clutching some new-bought kit . |