Example sentences of "they [vb past] go [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 4 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 5 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 6 | The floorboards had n't snapped , as I 'd originally thought : they 'd gone down into the dock with Harry . |
| 7 | They arranged to go out for a drink on the second evening , although Kathleen was n't really looking forward to it as it was bound to turn into a ‘ What was the name of that blonde with the big chest ? ’ sort of session and she would end up driving them both home and quite likely putting them both to bed ! |
| 8 | My men called her something else when they started going down with the ‘ clap ’ , but she was long gone by the time they found out . ’ |
| 9 | When the answer was a resounding ‘ Non ’ they decided to go back to the classroom . |
| 10 | Started as they meant to go on for the holiday . |
| 11 | They must have each eaten about a pound of strawberries , for they kept going back to the fruit cage for more . |
| 12 | But they insisted to go out of the front . ’ |
| 13 | The stockings they knitted went on to the feet of the British Army , and so great was the demand and so determinedly was it met that the Romantic writer Southey called them the " Terrible Knitters of Dent " , terrible meaning not bad but fierce , terribly good . |
| 14 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 15 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 16 | After they had deposited their bags at the hotel , itself ramshackle and run-down , they had gone on to the hospital . |
| 17 | Afterwards they had gone out into the brilliant sunshine of mid-June , the English summer being fine for a change , and Matey had introduced her to her other , lesser treasure , the curate Mr Julian Sands . |
| 18 | they had to go round with a blow lamp to get the frost and the dew in those big houses |
| 19 | Galerie de la Scala fared so well with a mixture of French , North European and Italian drawings , priced at FFr 20,000–350,000 , not always by famous names but always in exquisite taste , that they had to go back to the gallery for more . |
| 20 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |
| 21 | the pit and the the circular with a saw you know , the wood , they had to go down in a in a pit . |
| 22 | But erm you see , they suggested going down for a meeting he 's up to his eyes in it ! |
| 23 | And the lads used to come , they used to do , in them days , you know , they wanted to go out in the country to get a bob or two . |
| 24 | However , the Government made it plain that they intended to go back into the ERM when they judged the moment to be right . |
| 25 | In Vienna quite a few of them had gone around in a crowd together , boys and girls . |
| 26 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |