Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
2 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
3 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
4 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
5 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
6 | I daresay they 'll wonder why on earth you agreed to go out with a chap like me . " |
7 | In this case , people met at work or in the pub will not be asked home or invited to go out to a dance . |
8 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
9 | they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day ! |
10 | ‘ You must excuse me — I promised to go along to the tennis courts . |
11 | He was climbing on the barrier so he came to go back into the room to tell you what he was doing when Dale fell . ’ |
12 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
13 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
14 | No , he 'd gone up to the traffic lights and this cyclist sort of like cycled up , jumped off his bike and wheeled it round the corner so he |
15 | how much was n't held until after I 'd gone up for the money for Matthew 's back . |
16 | Er , no , no , we were , I mean last night we 'd gone up from the week before on a rave , we 'd had about si ninety in , and last night we had about two hundred and fifty . |
17 | He 'd gone over to the hedge that ran along each side of the white lodge and he 'd sat down . |
18 | When they 'd gone through into the lecture hall , I noticed the professor staring after them with a very odd look on his face — a stunned , frozen look . |
19 | The floorboards had n't snapped , as I 'd originally thought : they 'd gone down into the dock with Harry . |
20 | ‘ We 'd gone down to the Net , the day it happened . |
21 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
22 | and he was let out and first , within twenty four hours he 'd gone down to the South Coast and killed his mother and his girl friend |
23 | He 'd gone back into the hotel , trying to act casually , and had hovered in reception looking at the magazines in the hardcovers , watching the man explaining to the people in the hut and coming back inside , which confirmed Cormack 's suspicions . |
24 | She 'd gone back into the house to fetch something and his Dad was all ready in the car waiting to drive Uncle Walter back to his house . |
25 | did you hear what I said , I think your , I do n't know if you 'd gone back in the house when I said , I 'll prepare , I 'll prepare the dinner |
26 | I 'll never even dare to be successful , because when I 'm dead some clod with a thesis to write will put me down as a wild-eyed harridan who jumped on her lover in the street and pulled all his hair out because he 'd gone off with a person with webbed feet . |
27 | It would n't be so bad if he 'd gone off with a beauty , but I 'm damned if I 'll form part of a collection which includes someone bandy . ’ |
28 | I mean , if he 'd gone off with a humped-back , three legged dwarf I would have felt pretty unattractive . |
29 | ‘ She came for it soon after you 'd gone off to t' farm , ’ Aunt Nellie explained . |
30 | She said , do you know she said we 'd gone off to the woods and I suddenly remembered I 'd left my purse in the car . |