Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] go [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I basically leave them stock , except for the lead pickup , where I go with a Lace Sensor Super Lead . |
2 | I 've got a list of phone numbers , it seems like fifty , of different people who have been invoked — the doctor , the home help , district nurse , chiropodist , social worker , hospital doctor , Age Concern , the Red Cross , the old people 's home where she went for a break and dozens more , I hardly know who they are . |
3 | where you went for a walk , down , went to the shops |
4 | Where you go for a pound . |
5 | ‘ A week or so after I got back it was still there so I went to a doctor and said I might have picked up a parasite . |
6 | I was awake early , so I went for a swim . |
7 | Not a wink all night did I get , so I went for a breath of air . ’ |
8 | So we always this has always been the case for the four five hundred years that people have been doing etching , so they go by a rule of thumb . |
9 | Robyn found herself saying , ‘ So he went for a drive to let off some steam and that was the last … ’ |
10 | Once he went to a Prom at the Albert Hall . |
11 | And if I go to a rugby match , I do n't want to be accused of womanising when I 'm at Cardiff Arms Park cheering and shouting . ’ |
12 | If I go to a match in Europe , I come back to a stack of videos and I can hardly be bothered . |
13 | Or if I go to a car boot sale and I see some of that |
14 | I like it brown you know , if I go to a party . |
15 | well then if I go onto a medium , then you 're getting all this length and all this business here , all that business and it 's too much , if I could of found a four I 'd certainly tried it on for swimming you know , but I do n't want it all baggy and horrible you know |
16 | He summed up his own fate in a brief description of life as one of football 's miscreants : ‘ If I go into a bar and have a lager shandy , ’ he said in 1984 , ‘ word goes back that I 'm knocking back bottles of champagne . |
17 | The ideal is for me to stop out here on me own because , if I go into a unit or something and stop , it 's quite easy to go straight back on the gear . |
18 | Since I 've understood what management was about — I suppose that must have been back in the early 1950s — I 've had the philosophy that if I go into a job I must do it better than the bloke who 's been doing it before me . |
19 | If I go into a house and it is turned off I get worried . |
20 | ‘ Do you mind if I go for a swim ? ’ |
21 | If I went for a walk now , I would still be thinking about band things . |
22 | ‘ So then I had an idea that if I went to a composer who wrote very tuneful music , but asked him to work electronically rather than with instruments , I might end up with what I wanted , which was music the ear could relate to , rather than musique concrète which was the other sort of electronic music being done at the time . |
23 | So , if I went on a Parma list … |
24 | Why , if I went into a kitchen , I would n't know how to light a stove ! ’ |
25 | If I went into a club or something , I would notice other people 's clothes , and the label , even though I think it 's silly in a way , and I know they 'd notice mine . |
26 | Always used to draw my truncheon if I went into a place where I thought there was a burglar but never actually used it to hit them . |
27 | I 'm one of those people who , if I went into a gym , could be making Schwarzenegger movies . |
28 | If somebody goes on a drinking binge that 's the behaviour , the decision they make . |
29 | If somebody went to a party and drank 12 units of alcohol ( far more than he should have ) it will take about eight hours before blood alcohol is even approaching the legal limit . |
30 | Oh Deborah was moaning cos she went to a party the other last one this week , I think at the beginning of the week , and the had Joey the clown and Mr Nuttey , she said oh I 'd like them , but Sue said she went sort of a bit earlier and see how they got on and eh , she said oh it was n't the same at five , they did n't respond and . |