Example sentences of "they [vb past] go [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By the 16th century they had gone to the other extreme and were namby-pamby , play-acting affairs without genuine combat . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One day later the Ringaskiddy residents announced that they intended going to the High Court to seek an order enforcing the asbestos dumping regulations . |