Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night angry shareholders called on the Deanses to go now for the good of the 117-year-old club . |
| 2 | ‘ Do their heads go right to the top of their helmets ? ’ |
| 3 | Her eyes went straight to the wicker chair by the window where a baby was just waking from its morning sleep . |
| 4 | She listened to his footsteps going lightly down the stairs , heard the front door slamming below . |
| 5 | The Gulf Cooperation Council ( GCC ) , which includes Saudi Arabia , Kuwait , the United Arab Emirates and three other major oil producers , has warned that it will cut oil exports if Western countries go ahead with the introduction of energy taxes . |
| 6 | Coun Jim Skinner ( Lab ) said if the companies went ahead with the boycott there would have to be changes made to the traffic slowing scheme . |
| 7 | Too much of a good thing for too long , in fact , mirrored in their supremacy at cricket , but when matters go awry through the dictates of cyclical change , then rebellion and recalcitrance appear the sole riposte . |
| 8 | Footsteps went past in the corridor and then the door to the Governor 's office opened . |
| 9 | ‘ Do your feet go right to the end of those ? ’ |
| 10 | Matters went awry for the Allies from the start . |
| 11 | It is customary for workers to go collectively through the vines eradicating excess foliage , which improves the circulation of air around the vine and also reduces the risk of fungi developing . |
| 12 | It was noon before they had completed the morning 's tasks , and as they came out from the buildings to go across to the house , the snow had ceased to fall . |
| 13 | The buyers went away with the dog , unaware of the aftermath of unhappiness left behind . |
| 14 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 15 | The last 200 yds goes best down the left into the big deep pool under Dulnain bridge . |
| 16 | I remember with horror a meeting in our village hall at which boy-scoutish enthusiasm was shown for the knot-tying , camp-fire , make-do-and-mend fun to be had out of getting things going again after the bomb . |
| 17 | In Sydney things went well from the start . |
| 18 | But while publishers and booksellers eagerly regale journalists with recession horror stories , it is clear that the roots of the industry 's problems go well beyond the crisis in the wider economy . |
| 19 | Such questions go well beyond the scope of this book , but they point us away from the epistemological frame of reference of this chapter towards the socio-cultural one of the next . |
| 20 | Planners are not skiers ( unfortunately ) and they do n't seem able to read a map either because some of the lines defining their concentric rings go right through the middle of existing ski areas , particularly at Glenshee . |
| 21 | Apprenticeship was , however , a youth as much as a class phenomenon , and although Horace Walpole might remark of Vauxhall pleasure garden that everybody from " the Duke of Grafton down to children out of the Foundling hospital " went there , an admission fee of 2s 6d a head was a considerable barrier , though some women from the lower orders went there in the way of business . |
| 22 | The grindstones went especially to the steel works of Sheffield ( q.v . ) . |
| 23 | ( That there were actual preliminary deme elections to determine which names went forward to the ballot is unlikely given that fourth-century Attic oratory , of which a great deal survives , is wholly silent about such elections — although the new Thorikos text , for instance ( p. 111 ) , shows that there were some elections at deme level . ) |
| 24 | Fortunately , in the eighties we have begun to recognise that modern communication skills go far beyond the concept of advertising . |
| 25 | He had hidden it , thinking it would come in useful if he persuaded any girls to go away for the weekend with him . |
| 26 | They are so far unbeaten with two games to go ahead of the Bishop Auckland rink skipped by Derek Dowson . |
| 27 | His readings of the rare solo works are also very good , but his tempi go awry near the end of the third March . |
| 28 | Normally when she came here she and her friends went directly to the restaurant of their choice . |
| 29 | None of the supply routes go close to the point where Sunderby 's aircraft ditched . |
| 30 | It was effectively a semi final as the two group leaders go straight to the final , and it was between England and Spain all the way . |