Example sentences of "[noun pl] go [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was exciting but the last match on the Saturday with Clark and James and Strange and Stewart taking five hours and 15 minutes to go round in a fourball was a joke . |
| 2 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 3 | And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes . |
| 4 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |
| 5 | Her words went in like a knife . |
| 6 | It was the highest total and the biggest increase since March 1991 , when shoppers went out on a spending spree to beat the rise in value-added tax rates . |
| 7 | One such occasion was Labor Day 1949 , when my parents went off on a holiday barbecue or picnic and deposited the three oldest toys — David [ eight ] , Johnny [ six ] and Alvin [ four ] — with a teenage black babysitter named Earl at the Ritz to see Li'l Abner [ the early black and white version , with Buster Keaton in a small part ] and I Married a Witch . |
| 8 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 9 | SOME Test captains go out in a blaze of glory ; some do not . |
| 10 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 11 | The years went by in a bundle of exercise books , seasons succeeding one another as flycatchers came and went , orchids were noted and then vanished , temperatures varied from the normal . |
| 12 | Two thousand homes could be powered by electricity from the wind if experiments going on in a farmer 's field prove successful . |
| 13 | Anyway these questions go down like a lead balloon . |
| 14 | Their names went up on a list on the school board as being entitled to free lunches . |
| 15 | Discussions went on for a year and cost T&L about £500,000 in legal fees and other expenses , Vlitos says , ‘ but they came up with a strong agreement which protected T&L — a pygmy next to a corporate giant like J&J ’ . |
| 16 | Of course , the challenge is when people who are sensitised to their own attitudes go back into a work or social setting where people are not . |
| 17 | These are abused young children going back to a parent and troubled adolescents returning home from residential care . |
| 18 | So the numbers go round in a circle one , two , three , four , five , six , buzz , eight , nine , ten , eleven , twelve , thirteen , buzz , fifteen , sixteen , buzz , eighteen , nineteen , twenty , buzz , twenty two , twenty three , twenty four , twenty five , twenty six , buzz , buzz , twenty nine , thirty . |
| 19 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 20 | Between 1979 and 1987 the number of inpatients treated in English hospitals went up by a quarter and day cases by almost 60 per cent . |
| 21 | He had seen the pressure army wives were under , had seen their faces crumple when their men went out on a mission . |
| 22 | It flew through the air to land some distance away as both men went down with a crash that shook the ground . |
| 23 | The path simply sheds water to either side ; but where a path which follows the contours goes down into a dip , you 'll have to ensure that ponding does n't occur , and it may be necessary to form a small land drain to lead the water away to a less waterlogged area . |
| 24 | Why do we need two nurses going round with a medicine tray ? |
| 25 | If women go out with a bunch of girlfriends or men disappear with ‘ the lads ’ , they too tell their partners when , approximately , they 'll be home . |
| 26 | When this happened the huge anti-American feeling which arose soon squashed signing-up for courses and the University students went out on a protest strike , so classes were not attended . |
| 27 | They took turns to go back to a hotel to sleep , and came back to take their places on watch and yell ‘ Pamella ! |