Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] go [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made me go through the whole thing three times , though I had hardly anything to tell them . |
| 2 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 3 | In the Australian bush in the early 1930s , my mother-to-be was the daughter of a locomotive driver who watched her like a hawk and forbade her to go to the crasser ends of town . |
| 4 | Ludens told her to go to the British Museum and the National Gallery , which she did , though declining his offer to ‘ show her round ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I told her to go into the other room- and say she thought he was going to be in there . |
| 6 | Fat Watt watched them go with a satisfied air . |
| 7 | He urged him to go to the local hotel , only twelve miles in the wrong direction . |
| 8 | He paused in the doorway and watched her go into a dim hall , calling , ‘ Hoo-hoo ! |
| 9 | Paige watched him go with a sinking heart . |
| 10 | My father watched us go with a worried face . |
| 11 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 12 | ‘ We were from different cultures , but they kept me going through the bad times . |
| 13 | The only thing that kept me going on the last lap of the journey was the rhythm of my steps . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought I went for the Amazonian types , ’ he commented , ladling some of the food on to his plate warily . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew she went to a certain museum but I did n't know where else she went , nor any of her sources , nor what she paid for things . |
| 16 | Her anger kept her going for the best part of two days , but then Mick bumped into her and asked how Jack was , and she told him , in words of one syllable . |
| 17 | I can see the problems now , people come up to you and whisper in your ear , how comes he 's on the list , I saw him going into the Liberal club or the Tory club the other day , he 's not a Labour supporter . |
| 18 | That meant it went across the whole spectrum of the workforce . |
| 19 | Although he made a huge bonfire of his papers and correspondence in 1916 , and kept it going for a few days , Edward preserved all her letters along with his notebooks . |
| 20 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 21 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 22 | Did you go to a technical college at all ? |
| 23 | So when you had your combines , did you did you go round the neighbouring peedie farms |
| 24 | In many cases , the parents of the brighter children wished them to go to the secondary school in Jarrow , an overcrowded building housing about 400 pupils in which good scholarship results were achieved , but there were serious difficulties facing their children : |
| 25 | Would it have been better had you gone to the other jobs ? |
| 26 | A Vietnamese airport official said they went through the usual passport and customs procedures and then boarded buses to Soc San reception centre which was also the first stop for almost 600 boat people who returned voluntarily from Hong Kong earlier this year . |
| 27 | To his embarrassment , the lawyer at the hearings then obliged him to go through a whole code-sheet to get the names into the record , or perhaps just to entertain the audience . |
| 28 | Had he gone to a National Health hospital |
| 29 | You said he went to a local church . ’ |
| 30 | The midwife suggested I go into the birthing pool as I 'd requested on my birth plan . |