Example sentences of "[prep] go [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They stopped to help the Danes straighten their bent rudder instead of going on to win the gold medal themselves . |
| 2 | Erm so really and truly i i you know with what we 'd got it was sort of carrying the business on in a very sort of low way and instead of going round collecting the work it was all done through the post . |
| 3 | The wind drops slightly as I am making myself another cup of tea and I like the idea of going out to watch the sun go down . |
| 4 | We would of done the same sort of thing and could of gone in to see the planning officer but I just , I just assumed you know that , that life was fair but of course there 's no justice in this life |
| 5 | The magazine folded and we all got drunk on Bulgarian wine and I made a speech about going out to penetrate the government and cut the arteries of the police state right at its heart — you need Bulgarian wine to say things like that it makes me faint to think of it now . |
| 6 | Dmitri had beaten Prean in the semi-finals of the Austrian Open on Sunday before going on to take the title . |
| 7 | Since the questions of apprenticeship and pay lie at the heart of the problem , we should first examine the surviving evidence to discover how long an apprenticeship women actually served , and how much they were paid , before going on to analyse the re-organization of the work process . |
| 8 | Denmark , the country that likes to say no , ruffled more than a few egos when they said yes to becoming European Championship substitutes and drew with England in their opening game before going on to win the trophy . |
| 9 | Tribe , not knowing how to fly when the propeller stopped turning , glided heavily eastward and crash-landed in a field full of German infantry , who were having a meal before going up to join the attack . |
| 10 | Trent gathered it and wrapped it with ties to the boom before going forward to raise the storm jib . |
| 11 | You are sitting in your farmhouse having a meal before going out to tend the stock again . |
| 12 | By going on loading the crystal in shear we can repeat the process indefinitely and eventually squeeze the dislocation out of the far side of the crystal ( Figure 5c ) . |