Example sentences of "go [prep] [noun] to [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shows me charts of average weight and height , because now he is working on his motorbike , going from door to door selling insurance policies , and they use the charts to decide whether someone is at risk of a heart attack . |
| 2 | We spent some more time moving around Leicester , going from tavern to tavern trying to discover if anyone else had seen Irvine 's strange companion . |
| 3 | What can you gain from sitting behind a desk making and waiting for telephone calls , going from game to game watching players you already know about ? ’ |
| 4 | Of course , if two members of staff happen to fall in love and decide to marry , it would be churlish to be apportioning blame ; but what I find a major irritation are those persons — and housekeepers are particularly guilty here — who have no genuine commitment to their profession and who are essentially going from post to post looking for romance . |
| 5 | So nobody saw Rupert return to his house , or standing in his overcoat in the unheated hall , opening late Christmas cards , then going from room to room switching on electric fires . |
| 6 | In our particular ministry in St Louis Missouri we are trying to use the vast technology that 's available to us in linking up with other organizations such as Catholic charities , Salvation Army and others , so that when persons are in need of help they can go to one organization and tell their story and they do n't have to keep going from place to place telling their story over and over and we 're beginning to look toward the use of computers and what they are capable of doing in order to help resources stretch . |
| 7 | Not that you did much , you 'd be going from class to class entertaining the kids with your dances and stories . |
| 8 | Local authorities appointed volunteers to go from door to door to see who had room and who did n't ; those on the receiving end had no choice in the matter . |
| 9 | Top Come Dancing trainers , The Spencer Dance Centre in Penge , South London , goes from strength to strength says Principal Peggy Spencer . |
| 10 | This sort of interviewing could well be characteristic of a community survey where the researcher went from person to person linking up kinship networks , occupational groups , recreational groups , religious bodies , and so on . |
| 11 | The angel , disguised as an old man , went from door to door begging for food and drink . |
| 12 | I went from group to group apologizing , and then telephoned up to the lady 's room . |
| 13 | The Sheikha , her veils over her mask , went from room to room injecting order into confusion . |
| 14 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 15 | They went from house to house checking all night long . |
| 16 | ‘ Here we have Wren Boys who dress up and go from door to door asking for money , every St Stephen 's Day , ’ she said . |
| 17 | These people go from house to house selling goods . |
| 18 | Then the women draw up a petition and go from house to house explaining the problem and collecting signatures . |
| 19 | Using this form go from room to room noting down what it would cost you to replace as new every item in it . |
| 20 | Living only for a couple of microseconds on average , the muon can not go from atom to atom catalysing fusion and liberating energy indefinitely ; the dream of the ages is n't so easily fulfilled . |
| 21 | ‘ I mean , we ca n't simply go from table to table asking , can we ? ’ |
| 22 | Does that wan na go from side to side does it ? |
| 23 | Steel goes by rail to engineering works all over the country . |