Example sentences of "go [adv] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students . |
| 2 | The local nicks at Penzance and St Ives must have some idea what goes on in a set-up like that on their doorsteps . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 4 | My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine . |
| 5 | This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another . |
| 6 | That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’ |
| 7 | From Gearstones an undisputed path goes down to a footbridge over the stream , here known as Gayle Beck . |
| 8 | The other would allow the smart to inherit the Earth ( plus a legacy from their wealthy parents ) and console us with the exhortation to work harder if we want more , which goes down like a glass of sand in the unemployment deserts . |
| 9 | So long as someone knows you 're down there and comes to dig you out , then a basement 's always best , even if the rest goes down like a pack of cards . ’ |
| 10 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 11 | Chris , tall , lithe and manly , strips off and goes in for a swim in his panda-briefs . |
| 12 | He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) . |
| 13 | He was ready to go alone among a crowd of suspicious strangers , but what he stood to gain from this risk it was impossible to guess . |
| 14 | Judging from geological surveys , they expect to have to go down to a depth of 45 metres before they find it . |
| 15 | FOR a thriller to really thrill there should be moments when you are gripping the edge of your seat wondering if the star is indeed going to go down in a hail of bullets — one more dead hero . |
| 16 | Yawl ran an excellent Oaks trial in Wednesday 's Tripleprint Lupe Stakes at Goodwood , rallying bravely to go down by a head to Gisarne . |
| 17 | The likelihood is that St Helens will have had their minds wonderfully concentrated by the experience and should win the replay at Wakefield Trinity tonight to go through to a meeting with Oldham in the quarter-finals on Sunday . |
| 18 | This may have embarrassed Loughborough 's Richard Wareham , the tight-head who played in the England Under-21 front row when they hammered Romania in Bucharest last May , and the youngsters continued to go backwards at a rate of knots in tight and loose . |
| 19 | Set three days aside in your diary ( within the next three months ) to go away to a hotel with your team and tackle the issue . |
| 20 | They embrace , then separate , and one goes over to a woman in the crowd with a child cradled in her arms . |
| 21 | She will twist your poor rich senile arm to pay you out , because you have an airy house on the hill , and she goes home to a room in the damp and humid valley . |
| 22 | In the story Melric goes off on a quest to various fellow magicians to seek help . |
| 23 | Tor goes off to a cottage up the hill from the bay and comes back disconsolate , having been told to ‘ piss off ’ by the occupants who were robbed last week and are not in any mood to offer the traditional Norwegian hospitality to a motley collection of bedraggled canoeists . |
| 24 | NYUP ! goes off in a couple of hundred limey brains — and are ignored . |
| 25 | But above all I would hope to go home with a faith in some measure renewed by the experience of seeing close at hand how many of the Peruvians live theirs . |
| 26 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 27 | Sotheby 's told The Art Newspaper that ‘ there has been quite a large response to the Lloyd 's letter , but talks are going on with a view to possible changes in this arrangement ’ . |
| 28 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 29 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 30 | Anyone who imagines that a British Chancellor of the Exchequer could , wholly independently , determine interest rates here without considering what was going on in a Europe with a single currency , with all the other member countries belonging to it , is totally wrong . |