Example sentences of "gone [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 These men should have gone off duty at twelve but he was able to dismiss only two of them whom he could replace with experienced men from the afternoon shift .
2 Remembering that he had sent Catherine Crane to see Angela Morgan 's employers , he decided to find out how she had got on ; late as it was he did not think she would have gone off duty without reporting to him .
3 I mean some schools have not gone off site at all you know they 've actually stayed inside
4 Our sportsdesk can detect from the far end of a crease someone who has gone through life under the impression that Bodyline may refer to a one-piece undergarment .
5 He who has gone through life without being tested is one who had been considered unworthy ever to gain the victory over fortune .
6 This is particularly well illustrated in the case of old men who devote themselves to providing near total care for ailing wives , many having gone through marriage with little domestic involvement .
7 My essential points are that ( 1 ) to judge from a variety of sources including pendulum marks , timings , metronome marks and evidence from automatic mechanical instruments , the minuet , like the waltz and many other dances , has gone through history at a variety of simultaneous paces , some of which have been indeed quite fast .
8 Once again each man visited with his own buddies that they 'd gone through training with here in the States , so we feel very much attached to the Hundredth Bomb Group and .
9 I would have gone through fire for Peter Docherty .
10 Opposition Members and all the organisations which were present at the proceedings were under the clear impression that all affirmative orders would be the subject of a separate debate so that these very important matters could be gone through line by line , if necessary .
11 Your puppy is now a young mature adult and let us assume he has gone through puppyhood with no problems .
12 Discs has gone for promotion of the label en bloc , it has not been in the most obvious way , but it does typify the house sense of humour .
13 ‘ With the 715 , ’ John reflects , ‘ Trace have gone for volume in a small box , with no hook-up opportunities — these seem to start on the next model up .
14 ‘ If I 'd gone first , the house would have come to you with ten thousand and the rest would have gone for research into glandular diseases . ’
15 It had come her way because , leaving them in charge of Mrs Gracie , Dinah had gone for diversion to what she expected to be a dull sewing-meeting in the Islington church where she and Paul had been married .
16 I had gone for coffee in the student room in order to avoid my colleagues .
17 The Miniphone cellular network has gone into operation in Buenos Aires and some of its suburbs : the network is expected to have 10,000 users within a year , and is being run by Movistar — set up by Telecom Argentina SA , and controlled by STET SpA and France Telecom — and Telefonica Argentina ; initial investment in the project is $42m , but this is expected to rise to $100m over the next three years .
18 TROUBLED property giant Olympia & York waited until just hours before the loan would have gone into default before making a $51/2m interest payment on a $930m Eurobond secured by three Manhattan office blocks .
19 At the time of writing it appears that the broker in this case has gone into liquidation without making the required payment , and the couple must now turn to the Investors ' Compensation Scheme , which can pay compensation in cases where ( a ) the broker has gone into liquidation , and ( b ) the original investment was taken up about 28 August 1988 .
20 Secondly , much effort over the years has gone into education for road safety , though the concentration on advice to adult pedestrians and training for children has the unfortunate effect of apparently placing on the victim the principal responsibility for avoiding an accident .
21 He had gone into town on Friday afternoon to ‘ get out of the house ’ .
22 Mum has gone into town for late night shopping .
23 They will have gone into detail about Her Majesty 's inspectorate for England and for Wales and about the powers of the chief inspector for England and for Wales .
24 Well this is what I 'll have to , we 'll have to find out , I 've not really gone into detail about it , I think it might be actually because it 's er you , you 've got two things
25 As Chelsea 's players prepared for tonight 's Premier League match at Middlesbrough , Porterfield said : ‘ Don Howe has a chest infection and , as a precaution due to his previous history , he has gone into hospital for checks . ’
26 Jean , who had been receiving fertility treatment , had gone into hospital for a scan but doctors decided to operate when she went into labour .
27 It 's same as , what ow she 's gone into hospital with her , you know , and I 'd actually been that day , you know what I mean , I do n't mind , do n't get me wrong , I 'm not cross , 'cos I do n't mind .
28 ‘ No famous athlete has ever gone into politics by joining Labour .
29 They had also been joined here by a number of " White " emigres from outside the USSR , that is to say anti-Communists who had gone into exile during or after the Civil War of 1918–20 and had subsequently lived in various European countries .
30 Many Libyans have left their country and gone into exile since the 1969 coup .
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