Example sentences of "get [adv prt] go [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's always dark in morning in winter — it used to be dark when I got up to go to the building site . |
| 2 | Passenger John Keane , of Newmarket , Co Cork , said : ‘ I got up to go to the toilet at 6 o'clock and noticed this very strong , striking smell . |
| 3 | The man and the crocodile settled down to watch the film , then during the interval , the crocodile got up to go to the toilet . |
| 4 | I got up to go to the toilet but they er must have been too quick for me , . |
| 5 | Some time later I got up to go to the loo . |
| 6 | If you got up to go to the loo , you 'd trip over this bundle . ’ |
| 7 | By 2.30am , Liz was feeling increasingly uncomfortable , though , so she got up to go to the loo and by ten to three , she was finding it impossible to get back to sleep . |
| 8 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 9 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 10 | ‘ For the good it did me , ’ Ruth murmured as she got up to go to the shower-room . |
| 11 | Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo . |
| 12 | When he did get up to go to the room he looked like someone who had lost the train of thought he had set out on and had emptied himself into blankness , aware only that he was still somehow present . |