Example sentences of "he go [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 2 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 3 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 4 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 5 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 6 | Apart from saying he had given up singing and trumpet-playing , he invented things , such as that his school had suggested he go in for the Young Musician of the Year contest . |
| 7 | Parting the curtains , he went through to the front half of the room . |
| 8 | He went through to the Green Room , hoping that he 'd find Alex 's jacket still hanging there , with the gun still cold in its pocket , with all five shots still unfired . |
| 9 | He went through into the marbled bathroom and stood there in the shower , letting the cold , hard jets of water purge him . |
| 10 | He was district secretary of the ITGWU and had stood on the NILP ticket a number of times before the split of 1949 , when he went over to the Irish Labour Party . |
| 11 | He went over to the biggest gift of them all , picked it up and plonked it , gratefully , in Mr Patten 's hands . |
| 12 | In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year . |
| 13 | The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually . |
| 14 | Then he went on to the Global the New Consumer , looking at ways and how consumer power could be used for ethical purposes . |
| 15 | He went on to the Royal Naval College , Dartmouth , for two years before poor eyesight ended plans for a naval career , and he returned to Eton . |
| 16 | He went up to the two detectives and coughed delicately . |
| 17 | He went up to the next floor , where uniformed footmen and maids were dispensing coffee and cakes , biscuits and ices . |
| 18 | Odd , that , Mike thought as he went up to the third floor in the rattling old lift . |
| 19 | ‘ It could be inferred from the date of university graduation , provided of course , that he went up at the usual time . ’ |
| 20 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 21 | He went out of the front entrance , made his way round to the back of the building as snow fell on him . |
| 22 | He went out into the dark night , the wind and the rain . |
| 23 | He went out through the glazed garden door at the back of the hall . |
| 24 | He was a miner and he went off to the First World War and got killed . |
| 25 | His restless spirit could not settle to his legal studies and in 1809 , having obtained a commission from a merchant company to act as their agent and establish trade agreements , he went off to the Mediterranean area . |
| 26 | The last time that that young person went into secure accommodation in Middlesbrough , he went in through the front door at 3.30 pm , and at 5.30 pm he disappeared out the back door and stole a car to make his escape . |
| 27 | He went in through the plain mahogany door , and stopped . |
| 28 | Politicians were masters of the quick recovery , Trent thought as he went back to the front room . |
| 29 | He went back to the shaving mirror to comb his hair and when he had finished he pushed a folded handkerchief into his sleeve with quiet satisfaction . |
| 30 | He went back to the small house in which Grégoire lived , and attempted to interview his mother . |