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 .
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