Example sentences of "they [vb past] go [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the boat had come round the point they 'd gone up on deck . |
| 2 | Without exception they were splattered in paint as if they 'd gone in for action art . |
| 3 | The Arabs here thought they needed to go back to Bahrain and Abu Dhabi . ’ |
| 4 | She recounted how they had gone up to Master Allingham 's chamber and , finding the door locked , had ordered the workmen from the yard below to force the chamber . |
| 5 | They had gone out to Jamaica to start a new life . ’ |
| 6 | Next day they had gone back with ropes and a book on rock-climbing from the library to teach themselves about knots . |
| 7 | The rebels in Makati calmly bargained for surrender terms which , they insisted , should include her own resignation — and the terms behind the government 's report that they had gone back to barracks were not immediately clear this morning . |
| 8 | Some got as far as Rhodesia and the high altitude was n't any good so then they had to go on to Cape Town . |
| 9 | However , Mary , Jack and Charlie did n't stop but made the excuse that they had to go back to work . |
| 10 | There 's been an increasing tendency for people to stay on at school because they really want to , where it was one of the great criticisms of the boom years that people simply stayed on the escalator regardless , did n't think whether they wanted to stay on to , into sixth form , did n't think whether they wanted to go on to university or higher education , erm just did it without thinking . |