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Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	" Before everyone goes up to the top , " said Hazel , " we ought to find out what it 's like .
2	Everyone goes on about Cher 's dresses , showing her navel .
3	I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’
4	‘ She hates the way everyone goes on in England .
5	Everyone goes in for a little enhancement , one way or another .
6	Everyone goes out on longer boards with the biggest sails they can handle , either sailing around the windsurf bay till the winds become gusty , or sailing upwind for lunch at the long beach .
7	Everyone goes out on longer boards with the biggest sails they can handle .
8	Greenpeace have a meeting somewhere I 'm sure everyone goes there by car .
9	Often , even after insisting that everyone goes back to the launch point , there will be barely enough people to hold all the gliders down , turn them around and re-park them if the wind changes .
10	Everyone goes everywhere by car these days , and perhaps in a few hundred years from now our great-great-great grandchildren will be born with hardly any legs at all because they wo n't have any use for them .
11	Going to camp is like going on Pack holiday but everyone sleeps outside in tents .
12	Everyone sits quietly in the room and the leader draws an imaginary circle with a finger and says ‘ Here I have the wonderful magic circle and I sign it with a dot .
13	Of course , everyone signs up for nearly everything , but then it 's all part of university life .
14	‘ It 's just one of those dreams the urban yuppy like me goes in for , ’ he said .
15	Nothing goes on in St Jude 's that I do n't know about — should I choose to enquire . "
16	Nothing goes right for Walter ; his father dies early , soon followed by his mother , a rigid , religious woman , who treats the boy harshly but teaches him good conduct , to write and to hold down a job in a sweet factory where he is patronised by his superiors and ridiculed by his fellow workers .
17	Everyone lines up in ranks , all facing the instructor , who is the highest authority in the dojo and is recognized by his black belt .
18	The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality .
19	Did you not tell her that everyone dresses up for Willi 's party ?
20	The subjective impressions which RHA managers formed on their visit to the hospitals while they were deciding what to do about them has continually to be borne in mind .
21	If the organizer calls ‘ submarines ’ everyone lies down with a leg in the air .
22	‘ There are a lot of musicians in Seattle and every one of them looks up to Jimi Hendrix .
23	He is very wealthy and everyone looks up to him but as for me I could understand from my limited Italian he is very sad because one of his ships is very late in arriving in port and is feared lost .
24	‘ One can hardly appear wearing L-plates , but no-one stands up for their first performance of a great work saying : ‘ This is the definitive version . ’
25	Nothing looks more like a junkyard then a junkyard .
26	The tide is low and someone points excitedly into the clear water to where a couple of large sea-urchins are making their sedate way along the rock-face .
27	‘ And I goes in to this guy , and he goes like that , ‘ Hello , sit down . ’
28	Yeah , but if you remember I goes in to his right now .
29	I hate it when you walk past someone goes right in front of you and you sort of give it you do n't care if he 's ten feet tall you just look at him like this and you see this nasty greeny .
30	If someone goes away on holiday , you may well give the key to a neighbour , they probably know a relative of yours or somebody like that that if anything does happen they can contact you or your relative to come down and check the house over .