Example sentences of "[verb] go [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We do n't want to go up the ass of that flour lorry in front . ’
2 If I get home at 12.30 I probably wo n't want to go down a club , but I 'll pull a beer out of the fridge , sit down and have a laugh at everybody else making pillocks of themselves , including the prat who calls him self the Hitman .
3 I do n't want to go down the village , I want to go down the shops .
4 We 'd want to go back a bit before that .
5 Thus , it may be desirable to draw a patient 's attention to any inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour ( e.g. a therapist pointed out to a patient that the latter insisted that he wished to tackle some problem in his home yet arranged to go out every evening with his friends ) .
6 Queenie , come up to my office right away will you , I want to go over a mistake in the takings .
7 I want to go back the year , nineteen hundred , and let's hear the causes of death , because when many infectives caused by viruses and the bacteria , the life expectancy for a male was fifty , and for a women was fifty four .
8 Yeah right it ca n't get out it has to go down the pipe .
9 Well if you rung you could always say oh I 'll have to go cos somebody at the door if she starts going on a bit long .
10 Before I left the Lock and I was on nights the sirens went one night and this was before they stopped going down the shelter we went down the air raid shelter that is , now , is the cellar to the club at Bloxwich Lock 's club !
11 Somebody said , well the Harbourmaster 's not coming , I said , right go back to work and that 's the time I , that 's the time when we had the first baby and erm , that 's the first one we lost and anyhow they put me off for a fortnight and erm I went down to , I say go up the Board of Guardians , that was like the D H S S but a little bit lower and I just start to buy this house soon as I said to this bloke , he live in the council house over here this bloke , what was interviewing me
12 By now Jem had almost succeeded in prising Poll free from Sally-Anne , with the result that Poll 's wailing went up an octave .
13 ( It has gone up a bit since then , but not back to the post-1945 level . )
14 The size of the speaker has gone up a notch here to 10″ , with the dimension of the ports increased accordingly .
15 Things have really taken off , our whole output has gone up a notch .
16 ‘ He has gone down a treat with the members , who have a lot of affection for him , ’ he said .
17 ‘ Biochemistry , I see Mrs Hayman 's cholesterol has gone down a bit — Lizzie 's chest X-ray — haematology , Betty 's haemoglobin 's not too good — oh , the Hazell family 's tissue-typing results — ’ She gazed at them shaking her head sadly .
18 I 'm quite happy to see if we can what we can do , I ca n't guarantee that my Right Honourable Friend will take a different view , but I 'm content to see what we can do and report if your Lordships think that that is suitable , but if we were to do that My Lord , I think it would mean erm er it would mean that all these amendments which are grouped together should not in fact be , be put t to the vote , I mean that means ever er er all your Lordships because I do n't think it would be very fair if I were to say that I would move mine and the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh were c to come along and move his amendment and mine meanwhile has gone down the drainpipe and I do n't think that that would be particularly funny , but the Noble Lord , Lord MacIntosh I 'm sure would n't do such a dastardly thing like that !
19 Hughie said : ‘ You can say that shipbuilding in Whitby has gone down the sewer .
20 His best friend did not go to the funeral because he had already decided to go on a day trip to France !
21 ‘ If you 're not seen to go out a lot , you 're a failure , ’ he said .
22 I 've even missed going out a couple of nights . ’
23 Well this man something wrong and he er had an appointment with a Girran man who was Professor of medicine in Glasgow , he 'd gone up the ladder you know and finished .
24 ‘ Until this evening , ’ he said huskily , and turned to go back the way they had come .
25 But since we 've won in Barcelona , we 've had to go around a lot to dinners and appearing on television shows like A Question of Sport and Blue Peter .
26 What I 'm going to do is to examine now I 'm going to go up the collar bone first over the shoulder pad , T-shirt with a shoulder pad .
27 Unless the bank see new management , Virginia , the company your grandparents established is rapidly going to go down the pan — ’
28 Yes I am the outcome of it all is that she 's waiting on the wall , getting piles and I 'm going to go down the shop with her .
29 we happened to go up the stair and er , the door was answered
30 If someone could wave a magic wand , and I could change something , I think I 'd like to go down a couple of cup sizes .
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