Example sentences of "[noun prp] go [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the story Melric goes off on a quest to various fellow magicians to seek help . |
| 2 | FOLLOWING THE FIRST day of The Subject Was Roses rehearsals , Dustin went over to a girlfriend 's apartment for dinner brimming with enthusiasm and confidence . |
| 3 | John King makes a late shuffle after Neil McNab goes down with a stomach upset . |
| 4 | In order to challenge this complex of interlocking polarities , Amalgamemnon goes back to a time when the two domains , though distinct , were not yet differentiated by separate modes of narrative , back to Herodotus , the first prose artist and ‘ the father of fibstory ’ ( 22,113 ) . |
| 5 | Senior men , such as Charlie Nicholas , Paul McStay and Peter Grant and younger players like Gerry Creaney and Derek Whyte are products of Celtic Boys Club football ; their allegiance to Celtic goes far beyond a pay packet . |
| 6 | Then Jane goes away to a school called Lowood . |
| 7 | The Swinging ‘ Sixties , Peace and Love and the Beatles go together like a horse and carriage . |
| 8 | Rovers were forced into a pre-match reshuffle as Neil McNab went down with a stomach bug . |
| 9 | Kim Barnes went along for a preview . |
| 10 | ‘ About 2 o'clock , when within about 4 miles of Green Island , for which we were tacking , Mr. Gould went off in a boat with the hope of reaching it before us , and of finding some penguin 's eggs which he is much in want off [ sic ] . |
| 11 | M. Dupont went on in a calm , deliberate voice : ‘ My only question concerning Mr Lewis is this . |
| 12 | Impatiently , Ted went outside with a brush and prodded the eaves to drive out any birds that might be disturbing his peace . |
| 13 | " Stephen went off with a carrier-bag , dear . " |
| 14 | The Boozebuster went off without a hitch . |
| 15 | David Kennedy , prosecuting , said Kevin Fripp went out with a relative of the spinster , from whom he learned of the cash . |
| 16 | The following morning , Connor went out for a stroll before breakfast . |
| 17 | Any member of my profession ( the second oldest ) will tell you that not a Sunday goes by without a request for you to present your battered old body at a similarly battered venue for the benefit of Dyslexic Seals , Anorexic Pastry Chefs or Friends of the Ozone Layer . |
| 18 | No summer Sunday goes by without a game . |
| 19 | Tor goes off to a cottage up the hill from the bay and comes back disconsolate , having been told to ‘ piss off ’ by the occupants who were robbed last week and are not in any mood to offer the traditional Norwegian hospitality to a motley collection of bedraggled canoeists . |
| 20 | IF Norman Lamont goes ahead with a tax on food he will be signing his own death sentence . |
| 21 | Sunday went by in a haze , long and grey and unreal . |
| 22 | When Jinny went over with a bowl of water to wash her udder , she stirred restlessly , flicking her tail . |
| 23 | Owen went off in a huff and read the papers . |
| 24 | The wind caught it and it bounced awkwardly for the St Aloysius defence and Roy Montgomery went in for a try under the posts which was converted by Ross Houghton . |
| 25 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 26 | After his sexual initiation by a barmaid in an outback pub , while his father was drinking downstairs ( at an age which would seem to be about twelve and a half — but Greg felt the incident had been brought forward significantly , from a feeling that the narrative pace of the opening pages was already flagging ) , Gerald Seymour-Strachey went on to a variety of girls ( occasionally called ‘ girlies ’ ) and later women . |
| 27 | Histon keeper David Norman went off with a back injury but Newmarket did not give his replacement , ex-Newmarket defender Dick Hall , too many problems after the break . |
| 28 | Hucklecote made most of the early running and took the lead on six minutes , Steve Barslow converting a penalty , and they increased that lead after a quarter of an hour when Mark Halkins went over for a try following good work from Steve Hamslow . |
| 29 | ‘ But on the other hand , ’ Emily went on after a wait , ‘ the girl also said to me suddenly one day , when I thought she was trying to read back dictation , ‘ I ca n't get through the spring without a man . ’ |
| 30 | Philippa went across to a tray of goblets , filled two and brought them back . |