Example sentences of "[noun] go [prep] the [adj -est] " in BNC.

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1 I had both radiators removed and transferred to the lorry and told the driver to go to the nearest large town and to contact the best plumber to help me repair the radiators .
2 Moreover , blanket support by volume of output ensures that most of the support goes to the wealthiest 25 per cent of landowners , who produce 75 per cent of output .
3 Eighty per cent of our bilateral aid goes to the poorest countries .
4 It ca n't be a good idea to allow licences to go to the highest bidder .
5 Because the dower is always settled on the bride and her family either in kind or in cash or both , it has inevitably led to the stigma of ‘ selling and buying ’ , to stories of a girl going to the highest bidder .
6 Alan Bates stars as a middle-aged illustrator going through the worst mid-life crisis I have ever witnessed .
7 Price-rigging is chiefly what leads to four-fifths of EC farm support going to the richest one-fifth of its farmers .
8 Theatre tickets £115 including VAT , the best seats going to the earliest subscribers !
9 But most attention went to the largest elephant of all , a fifteen-foot-high inflatable which towered over MP Paddy Ashdown — only recently elected leader of the Social and Liberal Democrats — as he officially cut the green ribbon across the door of the Greenpeace-funded Stop Hinkley Centre .
10 There were inns and stalls , shops , swings , and merry-go-rounds ; all the money from these things went to the eldest brother .
11 Tools are expensive , but it is often a false economy to go for the cheapest .
12 ‘ And he did let the villagers go before the worst of the fighting started , ’ Carter said .
13 For centuries the traveller who wanted to cross a sea or an ocean went to the nearest port and hung about until he found a ship going in his direction .
14 The message went to the largest meeting yet held to discuss what the political parties have to offer research .
15 I wanted my children to go to the best school that I could find .
16 Lilting Orcadian voices chattered behind ; this line goes to the furthest northern railhead of Britain .
17 Europe 's airport slots should be bought and sold like any other asset , as slots are in America , with new slots going to the highest bidder .
18 The Profitboss goes for the best people , but never apes .
19 And in the nineteen thirties America went into the worst economic depression it 's ever seen and the state governments were literally overwhelmed by the economic hardship and the economic problems and the federal government came galloping to the rescue .
20 Sinatra went through the worst period of his career when Universal signed him to a contract , put him in a disaster — Meet Danny Wilson ( 1952 ) — and then dropped him .
21 None of the six jump-off riders could repeat their clears and the class went to the fastest four faulter , Yorkshire 's Joanna Dennis on Cottage .
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