Example sentences of "[verb] go the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Basic computer keyboard skills have to be there — we would n't want to go the lengths of having to train them on that — but training on our specialist software means bringing them in for a week and we 'll probably bring them in every three months to keep updating them . ’ |
| 2 | Ali failed to go the route for the first time in his career . |
| 3 | He still felt the movement of the van and the racing motion of the imagined mowing as , in his turbulent mind 's eye that would not release its trapped images , he let go the clutch on the handle and the motor mower leapt and jolted into movement . |
| 4 | Once a golden brown staple , crisp on the outside and creamy within , it has gone the way of all flesh . |
| 5 | Once famed as ‘ Baghdad by the Bay ’ in the days when such an appellation was a compliment , San Francisco has gone the way of many major U.S. cities and is burdened by a high number of homeless and beggars , and rising crime . |
| 6 | Now , it would appear , he has gone the way of all satirists , tempted beyond all self-control by the hope of a TV adaptation starring David Jason , if he is lucky , or Keith Barron , if he is not . |
| 7 | In a letter to Horsley nine days later he wrote : ‘ I believe that if the decision is made to go the way of the Sun , the tragedy will be of historic proportions . |
| 8 | Or is the idea merely a piece of folklore belief , sustained over the centuries by an inexact understanding of the quality of lunacy and destined to go the way of other popular myths , such as phrenology , astrology , and Mesmerism ? |
| 9 | and digging stuff out of there then after he 'd gone the whole with all the dairy round it it was sprouting with er . |
| 10 | He winched in hard and let go the lashings round the rolled bedsheets . |
| 11 | ‘ To gain access to the question of Being-on-drugs we have had to go the way of literature , ’ Avital Ronell proclaims . |
| 12 | But we do keep going the wages for the crews are paid , the ships go for their refits , and in the Ingard group 's annual report the ships are shown as making quite a lot of money — more than we used to make in the old days . |
| 13 | ‘ Certainly not Chrissie Rogers let's face it , if she was going to leave she would have gone the day AFTER the ceremony . |
| 14 | Dingle , in the wild West , could have gone the way of Killarney , but this tourist town has n't sold its soul . |
| 15 | Even Johnny Carey , the club captain and reckoned to be the most versatile player of all time ( he had played in ten positions for United including goalkeeper ) , finished his working life modestly in the treasurer 's office of Trafford Borough Council after having gone the way of all managers in the grip of impatient and often ignorant directors . |
| 16 | Even in Kyrgyzstan , one of two republics trying to go the way of democracy and keep the fundamentalists at bay , the Slavs are packing their bags . |
| 17 | He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that . |
| 18 | She was left to bring up a family she had to go the banks for money the banks were all and they refused her money to keep the farm going . |
| 19 | Warning that workers at the mine could suffer from silicosis and that dust from the mine could have a devastating effect on the local soil chemistry , Mr Wilson said it was cheaper to manufacture andalusite artificially , and wondered why Navan Resources wished to go the expense of mining it : ‘ To make it in any way economically feasible to mine this , it would have to represent over 30 per cent of the total of the rock formation of the mountain and this means that almost one third of your mountain would disappear ’ . |
| 20 | We 've got the we 've go the choice to either to become or or not to become . |
| 21 | Round and round in her head had gone the memory of the evening , undoubtedly the most magical evening of her life , but tarnished now by the memory of how it had ended , with Guido 's crude brush-off and her belated realisation that he was in love with someone else . |
| 22 | In fact the 3000 MkIII had gone the way of many a sports car in its dotage and started to take on a softer aspect . |
| 23 | Even Harvey — who had a dark complexion — had gone the colour of a boiled lobster . |
| 24 | Since most Christian teachers are kind persons who prefer to avoid controversy when they can , and doodle anxiously during fierce argument at meetings , things tended to go the way of Bethune-Baker ; partly because he was devastating , and partly because often he was devastatingly right . |
| 25 | She felt as she always did , not fear , but a kind of cold , dead calm , the way you might feel in a car in which the brakes have gone the moment before the crash . |