Example sentences of "go [prep] the [noun pl] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What would have happened , she wondered , if she 'd told the woman the truth , that it just might be the end of the world , that she could n't keep going through the days this way , plodding from home to work and back again , with nothing to devote her energies to , nothing to occupy her thoughts — except Nicolo , and how much she despised him ?
2 I 'll run in the Bath Half-marathon instead of going to the Vets Cross-Country Championships in Wales . ’
3 I 'm going down the steps three weeks ago , and er one of them front me , the other behind me but how I tripped up I do n't know .
4 Mrs ze Schluderpacheru was doing the accounts on her musical wrist-calculator , working how out much of her take would have to go to the yaks this quarter .
5 But I believe that the decisions made to go on the trips this autumn have been good ones .
6 But I believe that the decisions made to go on the trips this autumn have been good ones .
7 Czechoslovakia goes to the polls this month in the first democratic election since 1946 .
8 Fernando Collor of Brazil , who went off the rails last month by ordering a doomed price freeze , still proclaims himself a free-marketeer .
9 She went up the stairs two Levels , dodged across a gangpath to another stair and went up that five Levels , and finally , across another gangpath and she leapt for a lift just leaving .
10 I went into the gardens one Sunday morning with the dog found a body in a sleeping bag and I really did n't know whether I thought it was alive or not alive so I went rather closer and I got a very defensive angry stare from a young man and I said to him I 'm not going to ask you to move , because you 've probably got nowhere to go , my real concern is are you okay .
11 I went round the tables that night as usual , making everybody feel welcome , and she introduced herself as Clare 's sister .
12 Oh I went to the doctors last night cos I had that check up did n't I ?
13 In a bizarre twist , Sir Patrick Mayhew went on the hustings last Tuesday … with who else but East Belfast Tory Jim McCormick !
14 The turnout in Germany as a whole was 77.8 per cent ; that in western Germany was 78.6 per cent ( as compared with 84.3 per cent in 1987 — see pp. 35014-15 ) ; that in eastern Germany ( where voters had gone to the polls three times in the previous nine months — see pp. 37300-03 ; 37467 ; 37762 ) was 74.7 per cent .
15 Good clients that you can go and see , and you can service regularly , you can go on the conventions each year , and you 're quite happy .
16 I 've been told that prices go to the publishers six weeks before publication , but in this instance the price had changed three months previously .
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