Example sentences of "[pers pn] go [adv prt] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | During my spell on the late desk I went out on no fewer than eleven murders . |
| 2 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 3 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 4 | ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies . |
| 5 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |
| 6 | Now if we go back to the same example , the cost per every ten thousand for fifteen years is one pound fifty seven . |
| 7 | We went round in the same circles for half an hour and I left feeling a mind-numbing frustration , far worse than anything induced by meetings with the Foreign Office . |
| 8 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 9 | Yes , would they go back to the same position , quite right Sarah |
| 10 | He 's howling and scr w wailing cos I would n't let him go back in the same chair ! |
| 11 | I felt him go off for a few seconds . |
| 12 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 13 | But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them . |
| 14 | However , they went along with the many changes in the hope that the increasing emphasis on training might help our young people to find jobs . |
| 15 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 16 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 17 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 18 | He went out for a few moments and stood on the steps between the Greek pillars , looking in the direction of the Residency for any sign of movement . |
| 19 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 20 | It went on in the same tone for several excited paragraphs and ended in an even heavier and blacker print . |
| 21 | Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped |
| 22 | Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) . |