Example sentences of "we go [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Where did we go on a Sunday and we passed there ? |
2 | And whilst in the membership classes , we go through an explanation and a discussion , after that we tend to just repeat them . |
3 | We go to a chemist and say : get out your textbooks and your calculating machine ; sharpen your pencil and your wits ; fill your head with formulae , and your flasks with methane and ammonia and hydrogen and carbon dioxide and all the other gases that a primeval nonliving planet can be expected to have ; cook them all up together ; pass strokes of lightning through your simulated atmospheres , and strokes of inspiration through your brain ; bring all your clever chemist 's methods to bear , and give us your best chemist 's estimate of the probability that a typical planet will spontaneously generate a self-replicating molecule . |
4 | With a bucket and spade and a hand grenade hi ho hi ho hi ho hi ho hi ho it 's off to Rumbold 's we go with a bucket and spade hi ho hi ho . |
5 | ‘ Oh , aye ; we go into a cubicle and Frank goes in the bowl while I do it into the cistern . ’ |
6 | We went for a coffee and Odd-Knut explained his ideas for the trip . |
7 | I gathered up all my courage and went home and we went for a walk and I just told him . |
8 | and you go and stand at those castle round parts and we went for a walk and there was a football match going on was n't there ? |
9 | And he bou he bought me this top and he bought me a , a polo neck and bought me a C D and then we went out to supper and then we went to a pub and everything and erm , you know , had a really decent conversation with him and just talking to him makes me think , you know , and it dawns on me that he 's just a big he 's just a big child and he 's not , he 's never grown , he 's not , you 're not gon na grow up . |
10 | Afterwards we went to a bar and had some cognac . |
11 | When someone says ‘ We went to a bar and ordered a drink ’ , plain men and parsing specialists all agree that the sense of ‘ bar ’ in question is a drinking place and not a rod of iron . |
12 | We went to a place that was called ‘ Judges ’ . |
13 | We went to a café and I told him to get what he wanted . |
14 | Tom Tom Tom knows what it 's like cos last time I was up there yesterday Tom was and Chris Turner was up there and we went past an heap and it and we said is that a lorry-load and Dennis said , well it was at this morning . |
15 | We went about a mile before they tired of the effort involved , and I did n't mean to go much further in any case because according to the map I had in my pocket we were by then in about the centre of the western spur of the Quillersedge woods . |
16 | We went into a room and the doctor asked some questions and looked at Sigarup 's leg and felt it . |
17 | I mean that 's why we went on a Thursday and they 'd changed their as a chap that seems very strange to me ! |