Example sentences of "[conj] go [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes .
2 She paused a moment , uncertain whether to follow the other two or go back the way they had come .
3 This conventional harness has a fairly high hook position with straps that go over the shoulder .
4 He made his press speech this morning saying that she could n't even cos he thought that go down the hospital .
5 He was a nice young man bemused by the ‘ city folks that go down the canal then back up again .
6 Start at the bottom and go up the top .
7 He said cos I used to keep the house tidy he said I 've been the in the army June an he said I can I can run a household he said but we and then working the shifts I do he said and go up the horses and that he said I just do n't get time to do it !
8 And when you could n't reach no higher , you 'd get hold of the truss and chuck it on your head , and go up the ladder like the deuce with it .
9 They will then start all over again and go round the cockpit a second or even a third time .
10 If the film was , say , Old Mother Riley Goes to Paris , you 'd have three of your doormen dressed up as Old Mother Riley , which was a very cheap costume to hire , and you 'd build an Eiffel Tower , put it on a barrow and go round the town during the busy shopping time .
11 ‘ Juries are sympathetic towards people who have been provoked and who are defending their property and go over the top , ’ he says .
12 A group of youngsters can often come down to the river and go over the top
13 If you are shopping , stop outside the shop and go over the rules and consequences .
14 Turn right and follow the road for a third of a mile to the roundabout , continue for 200yds and go over the stile on the right .
15 Go back to the lift and go up , carry the weight to the button and drop it on the button to start the swing , stand on the swing and fly up-right , collect the weight above you and throw it onto the button next to the swing , go back to where you grabbed the weight , go left , collect the weight , go right to the wall and fall down , throw the weight on the button , go up , left , up the pipe , collect the flower and go down the pipe .
16 No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that .
17 While fibre-rich foods are chewed slowly , calorific drinks require no chewing at all and go down the throat in a split second .
18 He loved to come here take a slog and go down the meadows .
19 I used to come home , I used to go down there about , I used to start out away from the shop about er ten o'clock , half past ten , you see , in the morning and go down the Fen , call at then comes well I used to call on the first houses on the right the way down the Fen there I used to go down farm they used to call it , come back to and then on to you see .
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