Example sentences of "they [verb] go [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If they want to go through the correct procedure and ask for a transfer , then so be it . ’
2 The last time she and Arnie had eaten out they 'd gone to the local curry house where they went about four times a year .
3 They 'd gone through the big field and up on to the common and the slope beyond which was where the wall was , half-ruined and easier to jump because of the gaps .
4 Try , if you can , to remember the look of the feet in Carnaval where they wear go with the black tarlatan , they wore black shoes tied with pink ribbons .
5 ‘ My guess is they 've gone to the other house , ’ he said quickly .
6 They had been allowed in , they had gone past the uniformed security , and then had had to sit and wait in a grey-painted lobby , watched by the plainclothes minders , before the man had come down for them .
7 The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs .
8 By the 16th century they had gone to the other extreme and were namby-pamby , play-acting affairs without genuine combat .
9 They had gone into the largest of the rock shelters , one which he himself used when he felt very bold and did not mind looking out over the vacancy of the Waste .
10 It is a touching scene that every parent can immediately identify with because they have gone through the same ritual with their own children .
11 " Then they have to go to the Chinese to borrow money at highwaymen 's rates .
12 Yeah , but I suppose they have to go by the general rule
13 The Rollers make the cover when they refuse to go on the circling stage on ‘ Sunday Night at the London Palladium ’ …
14 One day later the Ringaskiddy residents announced that they intended going to the High Court to seek an order enforcing the asbestos dumping regulations .
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