Example sentences of "a [noun] go [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My proposal asks a great deal of many of you : time , energy , commitment , a willingness to go along with a plan which there is not time to discuss at length , and with ideas which I do n't imagine will win universal approval . |
| 2 | The Bible is quite clear that it is always a mistake for a Christian to go out with a non-Christian . |
| 3 | What do you think the difficulties could be if a Christian went out with a non-Christian ? |
| 4 | Well , seem funny a boxer going around with a tail wo n't it ? |
| 5 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 6 | A BOMB went off outside a north London tube station yesterday . |
| 7 | A waiter went by with a tray of drinks . |
| 8 | A joke went around about a passer-by who saw a man drowning in a canal . |
| 9 | And er a gent used to have er a gentleman going round with a great long stick . |
| 10 | I 've got a chance to go in with a women 's group up Manchester way . |
| 11 | Any member of my profession ( the second oldest ) will tell you that not a Sunday goes by without a request for you to present your battered old body at a similarly battered venue for the benefit of Dyslexic Seals , Anorexic Pastry Chefs or Friends of the Ozone Layer . |
| 12 | When the Titanic was finally located on the sea-bed a crew went down in a tiny submarine to explore the wreckage . |
| 13 | At the 13th , Woosnam was heckled and a cheer went up from a few spectators as he put his drive into the creek . |
| 14 | A great roar of a cheer went up from a crowd that was pressing all around . |
| 15 | It seemed hardly a week went by without a new ‘ breakthrough ’ in the technological aspects of the sport ; costs were inflating ; teams could n't be run without proper ( i.e. large ) budgets . |
| 16 | Hardly a week goes by without a report in the press of some find of archaeological importance . |
| 17 | Not long after that , witnesses near the St Claude Avenue Bridge , eight miles away , reported seeing a man and a woman go by on a motorcycle . |
| 18 | Over the years the OCU became a truly cosmopolitan empire and hardly a month went by without a new uniform or flying suit making an appearance . |
| 19 | You ca n't wear gloves — there is no grip … there is so much dust around the grinding machines — one of them caught fire five times during the past three months … then there is a fellow going around with a bottle of water . |
| 20 | There 's a garden going down to a stream . |
| 21 | There 's a lot going on at a very fast speed . |
| 22 | Lieutenant Gerry Mackenzie reported by telephone — the civilian network remained open long after the Japanese invasion — that he could see lights in the estuary of the Comoro river and a patrol went out for a quick recce . |
| 23 | Not too often that a company goes back to a previous vendor after switching , but Hydro Mississauga Ltd of the eponymous Ontario town , is returning to the Hewlett-Packard Co HP 3000 with Mitchell Humphrey & Co financials , after three years of using an IBM Corp 4381 : the change is being made in an effort to save $2m in operating costs and gain performance improvements , dumping the 4381 for an HP 3000 Series 957 running HP MPE/iX ; it says the power of the new machine has enabled it to reduce its operations shifts from three to two and to cut overnight batch processing from 11 to four hours , and one table-loading job was shortened from 14 hours to 20 minutes — and on-line response time is ‘ significantly improved ’ ; it switched from an HP 3000 Series 70 that lacked the capacity needed in 1989 , moving to the 4381 with Dun & Bradstreet Corp software . |
| 24 | We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet . |
| 25 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
| 26 | Sometimes , she would stare at them as they were talking and they would grow smaller and smaller , like a genie going back into a lamp . |