Example sentences of "go [prep] a [noun] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japanese , it 's a massive one , one er , it 's a thirty thousand gallon erm pond and it 's got , and it goes through a filter box and it 's four and a half tons of erm four and a half tons and that is a lot of |
| 2 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
| 3 | It 's like going to a firework factory and sparking up a cigarette you just would n't do it would you ? |
| 4 | He used to say that nothing could be more ludicrous than going to a football match and then reading somebody else 's account of what you had already seen . |
| 5 | When they rise to an equal level , like for instance if I have a choice between going to a woman doctor and a man doctor and they 're both on the GP list , I will choose the woman , because the woman has had to fight tooth and nail , probably , and work much harder , to get at an equal level with the man , so I would suspect that I 'm getting value for and quality there by going for the woman . |
| 6 | This time Seitz , in an otherwise logical column , took Norman to task for going to a sports psychologist and suggested that Levi was ‘ probably ’ a better ‘ all-round ’ player . |
| 7 | There have been an awful lot of people though who 've taken for granted the right to go into a Sherpa house and abuse Sherpa hospitality . |
| 8 | In each case , it has to go into a sail pocket and , to avoid wear through abrasion , the rod should have cappings or a Dacron polyester tape reinforcement at each end , or the fabric will soon become pierced . |
| 9 | His food goes in a corner manger and a brick goes in with it ; the weight of the brick means he ca n't throw the manger about and we can only assume that its bulk gives him something to think about . |
| 10 | I mean the other week she wanted to go to a school disco and I said look hang on n get your priorities right . |
| 11 | They would n't expect him to go to a Job Centre and sign on . |
| 12 | Additionally , all manufactured foods — that is , foods which go through a factory process and end up in a packet , tin or bottle — not only lose their vital vitamins , minerals and trace elements in the manufacturing process but also lose much of their colour , flavour and texture . |
| 13 | Sir right , you know if you go for a blood transfusion and you 're a smoker , how do you know that when you have the transfusion you wo n't get the ten percent of the blood that 's not working properly ? |
| 14 | I had gone through a marriage break-up and had a lot of financial commitments . ’ |
| 15 | Dale 's father , Michael , said the family had gone for a day trip and returned early in the evening . |
| 16 | The vestal virgins had gone for a tea break and I sat down thankfully in the cool of the ruins and closed my eyes . |
| 17 | For example if you went into a bicycle shop and said can you sell me a bike suitable for a seven year old child ? |
| 18 | She would not travel on the underground or in an aeroplane , and felt panicky if she went into a department store and was too far from the door or windows . |
| 19 | Q : I went to a computer auction and on impulse bought a boxed portable XT . |
| 20 | He went to a village school and to the Teachers ' Training College . |
| 21 | Last week I went to a fortune teller and she told me I would have another child even though I do n't want to . |
| 22 | my mum went to a fortune teller and , and I had there like tears running Oh ! |
| 23 | Cos erm I mean she went to a report evening and Miss said , was saying about Jay and saying you know if he falls behind you know what 'll happen and Ange says what ? |
| 24 | Apart from a price list , so we had a price list , and I thought right so I went to a book shop and I tried to find a book on masks nothing . |
| 25 | and erm I went to a youth club and I I was speaking to eight year olds and they 're asking about condoms cos they 've seen them in the street , so it 's obviously they 're wanting to find out about it cos it 's everywhere around them even , does n't matter what age . |
| 26 | She says we went on a bus tour and learnt about the architecture and colleges . |
| 27 | Then we went on a nature ramble and we saw two men cows doing it . |
| 28 | Meiko Scientific Plc , Bristol has been getting a bit of stick in the US press following its sale of one of its massively parallel systems to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under a $15m agreement : complainants say the order should have gone to a US firm and not to a UK one ; Meiko repudiates ‘ the damaging impressions ’ created in a New York Times story on the order , saying that it was consistent with US national security policies and procedures with support provided by cleared US citizens ; it bridles at the suggestion that the machine is unproven , pointing to over 400 installations , and says the Israeli transaction was in compliance with both US and British export regulations and that this was confirmed by the British Embassy in Washington . |
| 29 | It 's got ta go on a steel pallet and yet next door in the export chiller they 're allowed to go on a wooden pallet and we work on wooden pallets erm |
| 30 | Or you might go to a sports club and meet some colleagues , or some friends there , and while you 're training together you 're talking , about other things , you see and again , you ca n't be , you 're not thinking about work . |