Example sentences of "[noun] go [prep] a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The road to Haworth goes up a hill , and there was ice on the stones of the road . |
| 13 | In the Paris of the 19th century , it was a pleasure to go for a stroll and to be delighted by the public buildings . |
| 14 | PRIDE of place in Robert Maxwell 's study goes to a photo of him with President George Bush . |
| 15 | Was it safe for Her Majesty to go to a land which was virtually Communist controlled ? |
| 16 | How come the board have allowed Cuntona to go for a sing and a prayer ? |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | The test requires the child to select one of a pair of pictures to go with a stimulus sentence . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not a very good passenger , ’ he said , his eyes going into a deadlock . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 … |
| 25 | At Caen Musgrave went to a regatta , where seven thousand spectators lined the dockside . |
| 26 | And it was an old woman was sitting knitting in when her wool went through a hole in the floor . |
| 27 | The aircraft went into a dive and when it broke through the cloud base the pilot saw the ground less than 1000 feet below him . |
| 28 | One spring Conran went on a tour of sixty shops which sold his furniture . |
| 29 | — behind eyes gone into a stillness beyond dancing |
| 30 | Mrs Goodhaven went to a committee meeting , then home in time to be there when you telephoned . |