Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [adv prt] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This is far from obvious in snowy conditions , and attempts to go up form the stance are forced off left .
2 Parties went on to mark the path and generally prepare the way , besides watching out for foxes .
3 Even the timber offcuts go back to run the factory 's boiler system , making Kaohsiung both self-sufficient and environmentally pretty sound .
4 He announced his departure just before the kick-off and so Scotland 's ramshackle team of liquorice allsorts went out to face the world champions Uruguay stripped of all confidence and tactical direction .
5 But what , he demands , about the panic when interest rates go up to fund the deficit , and the City begins to think that Labour will win .
6 Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French .
7 Even cottagers were frequently obliged to sell up , and those who did not remain as labourers went off to swell the population of the new towns .
8 This group of researchers went on to compare the effect of extended sleep with reduced sleep ( 5 hours ) , and with displaced sleep , when subjects slept from either 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. or 3 a.m. to 11 a.m .
9 Middle-ranking staff from Accounts go off to sample the city 's famously steamy nightclubs in the company of a bevy of angelic recorders .
10 He was in charge of the resupply of the English forces during the 1589 Portuguese expedition , and he and his supply ships went on to sack the island of Porto Santo .
11 Not surprisingly , left-inclined social scientists go on to take the view that good sense can only be made of British politics if the pluralist ideology is set aside and a start to understanding is made elsewhere than in the world of interest-group activity .
12 She did this every evening , and every evening a hundred hands went up to catch the garter .
13 Rosalie Ray did this every evening , and every evening a hundred hands went up to catch the garter .
14 Having discussed the place of the professional-managerial class in the stratification system , the Ehrenreichs go on to consider the role that it has played in class conflict in the USA over recent decades .
15 Railways went on to defeat the Rest of India at Calcutta .
16 In the end , whether applicants have their experiential learning counted in the admissions process , or whether students go on expanding the degree of influence they exercise over the curriculum , will be up to them .
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