Example sentences of "[prep] go [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I had no intention of going through the proper channels ; it could take weeks . |
2 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
3 | I remember the fear of going up the spiral stairs to bed , the tapestry billowing along the passage with some hidden killer , creaking of wood . |
4 | Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester |
5 | It 's , it was , it was er er sheer coincidence that Beverley had been to Crete the year before and I said to Jackie we 've been to Yugoslavia four years , do you want , do you want a change or do you wan na go back to Yugoslavia , she said well I 'll , I 'll have a look , I said how about , how about going to the Greek islands for a change |
6 | However , US relief workers who flew into Tehran on June 25 with medical supplies and food were reported to have been prevented from going to the affected provinces , while Kayhan , one of Iran 's largest-circulation newspapers , accused the USA of being mean with its aid and of hoping to reap diplomatic benefits by offering " one or two million dollars " . |
7 | Would not the courts therefore be able to take into account the facts of offences without going through the restrictive provisions in this ill-considered new Bill ? |
8 | They keep wanting to supply goods without going through the proper procedures . |
9 | The librarian had also found the committee helpful in a number of ways by going beyond the narrow terms of the funding itself . |