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 . |