Example sentences of "[noun] go [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face .
2 ‘ The decision to go for a greenfield site was taken in June , 1992 , and the countdown to Highbridge — a site within reach of all employees , with good motorway links — began soon afterwards , ’ he said .
3 Esquire Goes on a Date
4 Under the new system , we want an increasing proportion of the budget to go into a pot of cash , which local authorities will be able to give out .
5 STAN FLASHMAN 'S Barnet have been charged with misconduct by the FA — just 72 hours before the controversial Underhill chairman goes before a League commission .
6 Althea Greenan goes on a walkabout around central London galleries
7 My mum goes on a Sunday ?
8 The facts are : Lady Eleanor kept to herself , put on her cloak to go for a walk and , in the half-light , slipped on the staircase at Godstowe , fell and broke her neck . ’
9 Rory Underwood 's try put England ahead for the first time in the match with just seven minutes to go after a spell of relentless pressure on the home side .
10 She slipped the newspaper cutting into the top drawer of her bedside chest , then took the opportunity to go for a walk by herself , without Josh .
11 It is not surprising that many citizens ‘ banned and cursed her ’ , nor is it wholly surprising that there were some among them prepared to give her money to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St James of Compostella in Spain .
12 The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine .
13 As an early observer remarked , ‘ If a big muskrat goes after a mink with mayhem in mind and carving tools in front , the mink may not care to accept the sporting challenge . ’
14 The road to Haworth goes up a hill , and there was ice on the stones of the road .
15 Van Basten goes into a St Moritz clinic todaymon for surgery on an ankle injury .
16 In the Paris of the 19th century , it was a pleasure to go for a stroll and to be delighted by the public buildings .
17 PRIDE of place in Robert Maxwell 's study goes to a photo of him with President George Bush .
18 Was it safe for Her Majesty to go to a land which was virtually Communist controlled ?
19 How come the board have allowed Cuntona to go for a sing and a prayer ?
20 but er , under the nineteen forty four Act , Rentham Senior School then became Rentham Modern School and we thought we thought that the silly term to go to a school which in nineteen twenty six had been er
21 The test requires the child to select one of a pair of pictures to go with a stimulus sentence .
22 Would n't you agree that in normal day to day language if we see a line of cars going down a road and one of them happens to be a Rolls Royce we would say , that 's the quality car ?
23 She launched into a long mocking invention about patriotism and monarchists and the Army , inspiring herself with hatred and feeling pleasurably like a pianist going into a cadenza .
24 Buskers played in the streets ; hawkers shouted their wares ; women met and gossiped ; kids played , as I had done when younger ; and of course nothing could , or would stop Glaswegians going to a match on Saturdays , especially to a game between the ‘ old firms ’ — Rangers and Celtic — either at Hampden Park or Parkhead .
25 ‘ I 'm not a very good passenger , ’ he said , his eyes going into a deadlock .
26 What I did there was I had my Trio preamp going through a Boogie 295 power amp into a couple of Boogie Black Shadow speaker cabs and I was switching between that setup and the Fender Twin .
27 The particular focus which I find valuable is the concept of the ‘ life course ’ , which is different from the more orthodox conception of the ‘ life cycle ’ and ‘ family life cycle ’ , in that it allows for more variation and does not assume that family relationships go through a series of modifications which are totally predictable in advance .
28 Jackie Jackson , a girl shot putter whose parents were Jamaican , put it like this : ‘ No matter what they say , all black kids go through a phase when they want to be white …
29 At Caen Musgrave went to a regatta , where seven thousand spectators lined the dockside .
30 And it was an old woman was sitting knitting in when her wool went through a hole in the floor .
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