Example sentences of "[vb past] go [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after my release from the old jail I 'd gone looking for the creche in which the Organisation for Working Danuese Women had made its home . |
| 2 | When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then . |
| 3 | Is it not time that they devised a positive policy , to ensure that the many thousands of miles of hedgerows that were grubbed up or allowed to go to waste over the years are replaced ? |
| 4 | The old Labrador and the two Jack Russell terriers loved to go rabbiting along the bank . |
| 5 | ‘ Then you 'll doubtless be delighted to learn that I have n't cried since the day I decided to go boating on the duck pond at home , only to find when I was halfway across that my rowing-boat was holed . |
| 6 | Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place . |
| 7 | Charles Brown , for example , was born in Northamptonshire in 1855 and had to go to work as a boy when his father , an agricultural labourer earning 12s. a week , was taken ill . |
| 8 | ‘ Leo actually had to go to work in a pair of my knickers , ’ Emma said . |
| 9 | Because of all this , Morton was now sitting here — off his food , filled with indignation because he had to go crawling through the gutters of London to satisfy Bragg 's social conscience . |
| 10 | Then poor wee Norrie Lamont had to go grovelling to the Germans — the same Norrie you heard saying all Krauts should be put down . |
| 11 | Nottingham Crown Court heard that Allitt had gone to live at the Jobson home in 1991 . |
| 12 | Her marriage had broken up , and she had gone to live with a man who was starting an art gallery in the Lake District . |
| 13 | A further fifty had been lost in the old days , as they were swung into place by teams of sweating slaves ( and there had been slaves aplenty , in the first days of the Power ) and the great rings had gone crashing into the depths , dragging their unfortunate manipulators with them . |
| 14 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 15 | And when , lunch over , they had gone to sit in the garden of the Lur Inn and the Colonel removed his jacket , Elisabeth was equally impressed by the pullover he was wearing . |
| 16 | What with hauling carpets in and out , cleaning the wallpaper with a loose dough — a trick Sally-Anne found oddly satisfying , if messy — washing every curtain , sheet , blanket , cushion-cover , piece of crockery , floorboard , door and window-frame , ceiling — you name it , Sally-Ann cleaned it — by Sunday she felt quite stunned and had gone to sleep during the rector 's sermon , only to be prodded awake by Matey , to a smiling Dr Neil 's amusement . |
| 17 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 18 | I had gone to sleep with the sound of the sea filling the night with subdued song . |
| 19 | Her right arm had gone to sleep below the tourniquet . |
| 20 | Presently the port was gone and the fire gone and Tuppe had gone to sleep in the portmanteau . |
| 21 | He had gone to stay during the school holidays with the children of a farmer who was one of his father 's clients . |
| 22 | He had gone to stay at a monastery and somehow a misunderstanding arose and he was asked if he had been baptised . |
| 23 | He wondered aloud why they had not heard from the officer who had gone to check on the man seen with MacQuillan at the Black Friar . |
| 24 | The people in shops sent their regards to her aunt through Melanie and asked how she was keeping , as they had asked after Melanie 's mother and also after Mrs Rundle when Melanie had gone shopping in the village . |
| 25 | He suggested the striker was lacking in desire , suggesting he had gone missing during the game against United , and saying he had not been the same since playing for England against Turkey a fortnight ago . |
| 26 | Both had gone missing from a centre for disturbed youngsters in Newton Aycliffe , Co . |
| 27 | When the court resumed at 2.30 , Mr John Lawrence , who had acted as stage manager at Reading , gave some inconsequential evidence which inferred that Drew was a violent man and also that a gun had gone missing from the stage props . |
| 28 | Mr Davison , normally from Dulverton Avenue in Swindon , had gone missing after a pub fight in Carshalton . |
| 29 | She had gone to stand at the cemetery end after spotting Uncle Vernon on the touchline in front of the club-house . |
| 30 | Then she closed the door behind them both , and moved to confront him where he had gone to stand by the desk , clearly nervous . |