Example sentences of "go [v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not the moment to go toddling back to the office to fart about over some fine print in sub-clause seventy-nine with a bunch of anal-retentives from Accounts . ’ |
| 2 | Just take it from me that it 's not in your best interests to go hunting around for the ship . ’ |
| 3 | Another orange goes bounding away up the corridor ahead of them , under the feet of one of Summerchild 's colleagues who is approaching from the opposite direction , coming back from lunch . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd better get her into bed , ’ Otley urged , ‘ before she goes sleepwalking down to the river and falls in . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If you promise not to go splitting all round the village . ’ |
| 6 | And I went storming down to the office , did n't I ? |
| 7 | Would you have her dragged up by a succession of au pairs and housekeepers while you went gallivanting all over the world ? |
| 8 | You know he would n't go wandering about in the warren . |
| 9 | Leaning forward I had a view of it in the side mirror , the bend we had just rounded obliterated by a great mass of avalanching rock and mud that went spilling down over the edge to disappear into the cloud vapour below . |
| 10 | The Lorrimores , followed by everyone still in the dining room , went dashing off into the dome car , but Emil and I looked at each other , and I said , ‘ How do we warn that train ? ’ |
| 11 | But before you go rushing off to the river to catch a netful of chub , bear in mind that I have said only that chub are easy to catch compared to most other species . |
| 12 | Maud went rushing off down the corridor , but Mildred stopped and looked out of the window to see if there was any evidence of fire . |
| 13 | Two days later , Andrew Manners went riding alone in the direction of Wild Tor . |
| 14 | That afternoon they both went riding out along the ridge of the wold toward Burythorpe . |
| 15 | So the mermaids spun the wheel until there was a great funnel-hole in the sea , and the fisherman 's boat went riding down to the sea-king 's palace . |
| 16 | Then I went skipping round to the cottage to see Miss Louise before I went to school . |
| 17 | He 's bowling with considerable pace there , did Lawrence , that wicket 's cheered him up and he was rushing in , he 's got his line right , round that off stump and plays a bit of a open face anyway , so those in the slip Gordon beware and the one that did get an edge , it flew through , both Ian Botham who 's at second and Graham Gooch , they both stand pretty close , they work on the theory that it 's better to drop them then to have them bouncing in front of you , but they could have been about five yards deeper in that , the one , that , that went flying through with the character . |
| 18 | They 'd gone flying out of the door leaving her wide open to any sort of hurt . |
| 19 | Freed , thus , from the weight of the dragon 's will , and safely assured of being able to get home again Maggie turned her mind to her own task and went travelling down into the labyrinth of memory and desire . |
| 20 | He went running off after the boy down the tunnel , dodging people and cannoning into others . |
| 21 | Our classroom is one floor up and we saw Julius Rottwinkle go sailing out over the garden like a Frisbee and landing with a thump in the middle of the lettuces . |
| 22 | We ca n't just go haring off into the city like that . |
| 23 | The water went sluicing out of the house into the garden . |
| 24 | On these doors , Frankenstein hammered impatiently , and the echo went rolling away through the night . |
| 25 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 26 | Sitting back to enjoy the mid-morning sun the bobbin on the rod with corn on started jumping up to the butt and a quick strike saw the first fish of the session go screaming off up the lake . |
| 27 | You can not feel the elastic around your ankles when you are falling , just the rushing of the wind past your face , then suddenly the elastic goes tight and you go shooting up towards the platform again . |
| 28 | But he was too late : the knife tipped over the edge and went spinning off into the night . |
| 29 | Many unattached skis went sliding off down the hill at incredible speed . |
| 30 | He thinks he 's Apollo and goes ravishing all over the place , all the girls are after him , his wife 's not very pleased . |