Example sentences of "go [adv] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It replicates itself , and each new copy , which is independent of the original , goes on to carry out the task for which the virus was designed . |
| 2 | Free range chicken production has recently attracted a great deal of interest from our friends in Brussels and for months now a battle royal has been going on to tie up the system of rearing birds to a ‘ given ’ free range name . |
| 3 | I 'm not just going along to make up the numbers , ’ says Adams-Robinson . |
| 4 | There are almost as many cattle as before the drought , and the 100 000 tonnes of food aid a year goes mainly to keep down the price of food in the cities . |
| 5 | Indeed , the evidence goes far to bear out the criticisms made by More in Utopia . |
| 6 | Kelly told him and then went on to fill in the details — Broom-Parker , seeing Ibn Fayoud with Jack Butler in the car park at Kempton racecourse , her conversation with Harry Short . |
| 7 | Henry went on to point out the evils of sweated labour and the pay make-up system , how it fostered a disinclination to work and how it encouraged landless men to marry just so that their income would be augmented ‘ in proportion to the number of their children ’ , and how it led to degradation of the character : ‘ The weak , the indolent , and worthless worker is now secure of the maximum payment settled by the standards you have determined from parish funds , and the industrious , skilful and honest workman can expect no more … the pernicious and demoralising practice of paying wages out of rates … ought to be suppressed and prohibited . ’ |
| 8 | Having declared the new music to be — incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics ' , Nietzsche at once went on to sum up the task he saw before him : " the thing above all is to get beyond Lessing 's Laocoon " . |
| 9 | You go on to pick up the beginnings of the Water of Nevis and the homeward leg . |
| 10 | There was only a very slight frown on her brow when Fernando went inside to bring out the paella . |
| 11 | Even Willis 's appearance , the spiky short black hair and the prize-fighter 's countenance , had not changed much since he had played truant from Elementary school and gone down to hang about the docks . |
| 12 | It 's better to admit that you do n't know and then go away to find out the answer , than to make up an answer that is not true ! |
| 13 | Having sorted out Barry 's clothes , she then went home to sort out the miners ' strike . |
| 14 | As I 'm not prepared to risk meeting Louis and his Mafia friends I ca n't go back to pick up the replacement VHF set — which means we might well be without radio contact all the way to Greece . ’ |
| 15 | I sent him outside to make a start on the exterior painting , and went back to tidy up the mess . |
| 16 | The inclusion of special relativistic accounts of thermodynamics and electromagnetism go far to bear out the author 's claim that special relativity provides ‘ a foundation on which almost the whole of modern physical theory has been built ’ . |
| 17 | It says about scenes of crime officers cos most burglaries happen er in the early afternoon when when mum 's gone out to pick up the kids before she comes home to cook the tea |
| 18 | That list when marketing group go round to sign up the estate agent for one or the other or both . |
| 19 | Let's have a look first all er just step back slightly to the time when the sales exec goes round to sign up the estate agent . |