Example sentences of "[noun sg] go [adv prt] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 ’ . |
2 | The very important interest JCI has in the diamond industry goes back to the days when Barney Barnato , together with Cecil Rhodes played an important role in the establishment of De Beers in Kimberley . |
3 | Once Ranulf had gone , Athelstan sat on the altar steps , his mind going back to the corpses he had seen : Vechey 's lying cold amongst those dreadful heads on the tower gate of London Bridge ; Brampton 's sheathed in dirty canvas in the death house of St Mary Le Bow ; Springall 's lying alone under its leather covering in the great four poster bed in his mansion . |
4 | Although they were public servants answerable to the Home Secretary , the Prison Commissioners had a separate existence going back to the reforms of the late Nineteenth Century . |
5 | For them , he said , there was a need to go back to the basics of spelling , grammar , punctuation and arithmetic . |
6 | Sponsored by Bass , the tournament attracted a good entry of 18 pairs , with the winners and runners-up of each group going through to the semi-finals . |
7 | In Mary Barton the working-class heroine and her husband go off to the colonies to start a new life . |
8 | The origins of Sudan 's severe debt crisis go back to the policies pursued from the early 1970s onwards . |
9 | Of course , the concept of a liberal education goes back to the Greeks , and Newman 's lectures and books were only one more interpretation of an idea which as Rothblatt ( 1976 ) clearly shows has demonstrated a remarkable adaptability and longevity . |
10 | If the right hon. Gentleman goes back to the incidents to which he was referring , he will find that they were not ones that could naturally and immediately be followed by a statement . |
11 | A complaint goes off to the powers . |
12 | In thesimpler organisms , the feedback signal goes back to the boundaries on which the stimuli impinge . |
13 | I made a fuss about being first in the queue going down to the car-decks . |
14 | ‘ My daughter 's dog an Alsatian called Prince went over to the men but we called it back when they said they 'd kill it . |
15 | I share the view of the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East that it does not make sense to go back to the days of the red flag , but we must find a compromise between the passenger 's interest , which is the interest of the railways , and the pedestrian 's interest . |
16 | If the poem goes back to the origins of religion , it also goes back to the origins of society and language . |
17 | the solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
18 | the solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
19 | The solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
20 | The solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
21 | The solicitors ' profession goes back to the courts of the 15th century , and to this day a solicitor 's full title is ‘ Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales ’ . |
22 | The answer goes back to the origins of the Hungarian nation and tells us something about its individuality . |
23 | The Doctor went over to the marbles , found a jack and started to play a solitary game . |
24 | It is interesting also that this scheme goes back to the roots of the Elim movement . |
25 | The origin of the equivalence principle goes back to the experiments of Galileo . |
26 | His hands are tight across my back , then he lets go and as I walk out of the room his face goes back to the letters . |
27 | He had braved the bitter weather to go down to the bookshops on the Charing Cross Road not just for the chance to get some books — he could have bought them any time — but principally to meet Joseph Hyde and hear the latest news from Dublin . |
28 | As a last resort , she and her son went back to the Children 's Home . |