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Example sentences of "[pers pn] go [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1	My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek ..
2	It 's easier for you to experiment to see how it works than for me to go in for a detailed but boring explanation .
3	Once a month I go out for a serious session — the last of which was a hard circuit of Radnor Forest , but I enjoyed it tremendously . ’
4	‘ I go in for a certain amount of golf , you know .
5	I went up for a closer look .
6	You 're much too young to be thinking about boys , when I was your age I went around in a big friendly group , plenty of time for all that later on .
7	I went out with a new boy for a while and we fell in love .
8	Editor , — Recently , as a trainee general practitioner , I went out on an urgent call at lunchtime on a weekday .
9	This week , I went out in a new , ankle-length skirt for the first time .
10	Surkov , in a Yale T-shirt , was sitting alone at a table when I went down to a late breakfast .
11	I went back at a slow run , glowing with energy and feeling even better than I had at the start of the Run .
12	Now if the Labour group had moved a widening of erm the sort of provision in our elderly persons homes , I could have understood that , because we did n't have real figures , we could not get hold of real figures , every time I went back to a local party meeting , to the Labour group , to any other member they said , do you realise this home has this number of vacancies and your report says that number .
13	To make sure of the facts I went back to a 1985 Wireless World ( May & June ) series to read up and it seems you are completely correct .
14	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 .
15	‘ I went along as a 10-year-old and watched the shows four times a day .
16	When I was living in my former role I went along to a lesbian meeting , thinking that might be what I was , but what I wanted was a relationship with a woman as a man .
17	I could hardly let you go off on an epic journey all by yourself .
18	But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it .
19	And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form .
20	So what happens if you have , just supposing you went down to a crazy way o of means testing .
21	However , if you go back to a lengthy program after a couple of months you will find it very difficult to understand if you have not included any REMs .
22	‘ You go in with a whole lot of money and you come out with a whole lot of junk .
23	If you go along to a good quality golf course they have the score card a planner but they also have a little script that tells you about the hole .
24	Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 .
25	She went on to a safer subject .
26	‘ It is , actually , ’ she went on in a normal voice .
27	‘ You can tell your father , ’ she went on in a low voice , ‘ there 's plenty in the valley willing to help .
28	‘ I did mean what I said last night , ’ she went on in a strangled whisper .
29	‘ So much , Steve , ’ she went on in an agonised whisper .
30	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 .