Example sentences of "[noun prp] go [adv] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly went on laying the table , placing knives and forks neatly as though her sanity depended on it . |
| 2 | Arafat went on to urge the world to take action to halt " the massacre Israel is currently committing against the Palestinian people in Rafah " ( a town and camp lying at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip ) . |
| 3 | MacKinlay and Ramaswamy went on to study the behaviour of these mispricings . |
| 4 | Meredith went out to fetch the tea and when she returned he went on , ‘ This is an official visit , actually . ’ |
| 5 | Robert stayed on the pavement while Maisie went in to buy the school 's bread . |
| 6 | Next week posters of striker Ian Wright go up to fill the gap left by Gary Lineker 's departure for Japan . |
| 7 | Beginning with the introduction of the notion of the unconscious to link together dreams , parapraxes and hypnosis , Freud went on to use the concept to understand a variety of neurotic symptoms . |
| 8 | Hugh goes on to describe the country : |
| 9 | Léonie went on licking the cake mixture out of the bowl . |
| 10 | Yet West Germany 's Bayer and Hoechst went on to dominate the industry ( by 1913 Germany produced 90% of the world 's dyes ) because , unlike British companies , they made the essential first-mover investments in production , distribution and management . |
| 11 | ‘ It is not exactly true , ’ Marguerite confided as Alain went out to answer the telephone . |
| 12 | Lord Diplock went on to test the question arising in the case by asking what the words of the relevant section of the Act of 1968 meant in ordinary conversation . |
| 13 | But Throgmorton went down to examine the priest 's corpse . ’ |
| 14 | The sitting was abandoned by Mayall , although Diccon went on to finish the picture — it subsequently won the senior award in the Irish National Portrait Painting Contest . |
| 15 | Bonington and Lowther went back to complete the route , which they rate at around RD/TD± , two days after their first attempt . |
| 16 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 17 | I think it 's this month that Lee goes back to see the specialist at whatsername , Bradford . |
| 18 | However , and rather more fundamentally , Rose goes on to make the point that " the gap between what governments can do and what the public ( and for that matter , the government ) wants to achieve is greatest in the management of the economy " . |
| 19 | Having described the main shrines and Sufi festivals and mystics , Khan goes on to list the city 's secular personalities : the nobles , the musicians and the great femmes fatales . |
| 20 | And Mr Gowans went on to criticise the ease with which scanners can be bought to monitor police broadcasts . |
| 21 | But Klein went on to tell the tale . |
| 22 | Then Jesus went on to tell the Parable of the Rich Man who hoarded his possessions to make sure his future was secure . |
| 23 | She was married for three months to poor old Louis before he collapsed and died of exhaustion and Mary went home to marry the love of her life , Charles Brandon , Duke of Suffolk . |
| 24 | Tilbury went on to collect the gold . |
| 25 | Ben went on turning the cup in his hands . |
| 26 | Lieberich went on to describe the functioning of the eye , and to diagnose astigmatism in a Parisian portrait painter ; seen through a suitable lens , his productions looked much better . |
| 27 | After condemning the ‘ Baudelairean ’ atmosphere of the nineteenth century ( ‘ it is the triumph of romantic disorder ’ ) , and its cult of individual genius , Jacob goes on to stress the objectivity of modern poetry ( which is by contrast ‘ a universal poetry ’ ) and the fact that a work of art ‘ is of value in itself and not because of any confrontation one can make with reality ’ . |
| 28 | The vicissitudes of climate and harvest continued into the seventeenth century and Pussot goes on to record the contrast between the abundant vintage of 1604 , when the vignerons were ‘ at their wits ’ end for vessels to contain their wine' , and the devastating harvest three years later when the vintage was considered so poor that it ‘ had not been known within the memory of man ’ . |
| 29 | Fiona went in to tell the baby sitter she was free to go , while Lachy tried to rouse Fergus . |
| 30 | By the time Bethan went back to see the dermatologist in February this year , her acne had cleared . |