Example sentences of "he go [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He goes round banging on the barrels . )
2 He goes on to speak of the hardships he endured , the thirst , the hard work the opposition , the homelessness , the abuse , and concludes ‘ we have become , and still are , the refuse of the world , the offscourings of everything ( 1 Cor. 4:8–13 ) .
3 And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ .
4 He goes off to report to the sergeant .
5 ‘ Now I know what else it was Dr Iverson did when he went through to see to the claret before dinner . ’
6 He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him .
7 He had found he had a good voice and was taking singing lessons , and he went on flirting with the piano and a trumpet he had bought between practising his flute .
8 But that was perhaps not enough , and he went on to explain to the congregation and to the Prince of Wales as the new President that there was a ‘ more searching question ’ to be asked about validation :
9 He went on to reflect on the foundation of new branches .
10 His last years were marred by debilitating illness but , a compulsive worker , he went on writing until the end , dying at his home in Cambridge 19 December 1978 .
11 He went on looking at the disgusting bits .
12 He went on looking at the floor , thoughtful .
13 After a distinguished student career at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , he went on to study at the University of Paris under Suzanne Bastid .
14 He went on going through the motions of being a poet until the very end , and inevitably , because he kept in practice , hit upon some successes — ‘ gleams like the flashing of a shield ’ occur in unexpected places .
15 He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle .
16 He went on staring at the Hare-woman .
17 ‘ But if he went out flailing with the score at 0-1 in a Test and got out , he would be crucified .
18 The early career of the great missionary John Wesley showed the problems facing Anglicans in an area without bishops ; when he went to preach in the newly-launched colony of Georgia from 1735 to 1737 the Church of England made no provision for his activity , and he went out attached to the Moravians .
19 The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry .
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