Example sentences of "they go [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they going out with a friend you feel you can trust ? |
| 2 | The approach of the two men to each other is conducted like a ritual , a crucial moment of which comes when they go up in a plane together for the first time . |
| 3 | And they go down at a bit at a time or it 'll go all the way down . |
| 4 | Ciaran Fitzgerald 's dishevelled and disheartened foot soldiers ( l-r ) Halpin , Smith , Popplewell , Rigney , Galwey and Fitzgibbon , reel from the French onslaught as they go down by a record margin in Paris . |
| 5 | I read once that when people get old and go senile , they go back to a time in their life when they were useful . |
| 6 | I think it 's marvellous they go out to a restaurant |
| 7 | Paul Newman and Robert Redford might now be right for the roles of a pair of outlaws on their last legs who flee to Bolivia to find that civilisation and its increased firepower are after them there as well , but in 1968 they were more an emblem of defiant youth and , rather than be riddled with bullets , they go out with a freeze-to-sepia and some plunky Burt Bacharach music . |
| 8 | If the child says , ‘ I dislike Auntie Kate ’ but seeks her company , holds her by the hand when they go out for a walk , and so on , we would conclude that he has not understood the word dislike . |
| 9 | They go out for a meal . |
| 10 | ‘ Curry seems to be the first choice for many MPs when they go out for a meal , ’ says Peter Grove , publisher of Patak 's Real Curry Restaurant Guide . |
| 11 | And when they go out on a football field they can do something about it . |
| 12 | Now Sid and Ethel demonstrated a samba , doing scissor-cutting steps backwards and forwards , then with hands on hips somehow entwined , and heads looking behind them , they went round in a circle . |
| 13 | They went up in a paternoster lift which cranked regularly past its otherwise vacant portals . |
| 14 | The lights were obviously controlled from some master switch for they went on without a sound . |
| 15 | They went out through a door that was marked ‘ Hours of Opening : 08.00 to 23.59 ’ . |
| 16 | They went out through a gate in the walled garden , and encountered Hector almost at once . |
| 17 | When they went out to a restaurant together , he would always complain — very loudly so that the proprietor would know who he was and so there would be people around about whom he could fuss were pestering him for his autograph . |
| 18 | They went out in a blaze of glory . |
| 19 | He collided with the Guardsmen , and they went down in a tangle . |
| 20 | The cloth for their suits was cord ( corduroy ) , as I 've told you ; but sometimes they went in for a suit of heavy tweed — staple tweed it was called ; and at that time they made it as hard as a board . |