Example sentences of "his [noun] go [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the rabbi was a very kind man and his heart went out to the poor man . |
| 2 | ‘ You will not lose by this , Yin Tsu , ’ he said softly , his heart going out to the old man . |
| 3 | Then he pulled down the oven door , smelt the sweet , fatty smell of the meat and knew that it was probably this very fact that accounted for his decision to go through with the business . |
| 4 | ‘ Whoever 's that ? ’ said his Mum going through to the front door . |
| 5 | Gazza 's former Spurs team-mate Gary Lineker turned his talents to cricket yesterday and made 103 for Cross Arrows at Lord 's , but his side went down to the Stock Exchange by five wickets |
| 6 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 7 | As his eyes went back to the old lady , she saw the smile turn on again , and quick suspicion kindled in her breast . |
| 8 | He shuddered and looked away , his eyes going off to the horizon . |
| 9 | His mind went back to the familiar and unanswerable question : who killed Newley ? |
| 10 | Once Ranulf had gone , Athelstan sat on the altar steps , his mind going back to the corpses he had seen : Vechey 's lying cold amongst those dreadful heads on the tower gate of London Bridge ; Brampton 's sheathed in dirty canvas in the death house of St Mary Le Bow ; Springall 's lying alone under its leather covering in the great four poster bed in his mansion . |
| 11 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 12 | Could that be when Wetherby left his room to go down to the kitchen ? ’ |
| 13 | He stressed that he had relinquished his deferment after only two months , thereby allowing his name to go back into the draft pool at a time when he could not have known that the draft would be shortly replaced by a lottery system . |
| 14 | His wife went over to a casket and took out a small roll of parchment . |
| 15 | Now , when the farmer had left the house , his wife went out to the stable and saddled the pony. then she put on her husband 's best clothes , tied the turban high so as to look as tall as possible , jumped astride the pony , and set off to the field where the tiger was waiting . |
| 16 | ‘ He stayed in his room when his wife went off for a jaunt round Oxford , remember ? |
| 17 | Adam stared round , and his head went up like a frightened horse 's . |
| 18 | Andy takes the man 's calves under his armpits and lifts ; I get underneath and force the man 's shoulders up ; his head goes over onto the stone rim of the vent , beneath the grating . |
| 19 | His inspiration goes back to the early idea of Charles Frank , plus the fact that muon catalysed fusion was observed in 1956 by accident and the interest has grown in fits and starts ever since . |
| 20 | ‘ Looks like his mate went off with the car . |
| 21 | Immediately after the Last Supper , Jesus and his disciples went out to the Mount of Olives . |
| 22 | But whenever Angus and his daughter went out in the boat fishing for their lives to keep themselves fed , it seemed that a seal swam in front of the boat and lead them towards the places where the fishes were thickest in the sea in that part of the coast . |
| 23 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
| 24 | He bared her breasts ; put his tongue to them as his hands went down to the belt of her skirt , to find that she 'd changed for the trip , and was wearing jeans . |
| 25 | His hand went out to the stone wall to brace himself . |
| 26 | Automatically , his hand went out for a chocolate biscuit . |
| 27 | When we signed him his ability to go out on the wing , but then at sheffield they had someone in the middle for the cross . |
| 28 | His speech goes back into a relaxed drawl , eyebrows half-cocked this time , and a mischievous glint makes the instigator of this flash of temper wonder whether he meant it in the first place . |
| 29 | His hands are tight across my back , then he lets go and as I walk out of the room his face goes back to the letters . |
| 30 | Moxon snipped off the padlock , his partner went in on the roll , coming to his feet on the dusty floor inside the barn with his handgun drawn . |