Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] go [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is not point arranging to play squash if you dislike the game , or vowing to go for a jog each day , if you hate running . |
| 2 | It would have made no difference if the ironmonger 's door had been shut instead of open , and the ox had pushed its way through , or had gone through a plateglass window . |
| 3 | This is it you see , I mean a , a company like or have gone to a lot of trouble to get that length right , er and to tune the box and all this that and the other and get the right , I do n't know maybe er just think oh you know you just build this , put this massive speaker in and call it a sub based woofer |
| 4 | Now supposing a local authority that wants to go into a open countryside in its local plan , E two would stand in the way of that . |
| 5 | And maybe at the end of the day , the County Council will have to come to a conclusion , after you 've made your general recommendations , with or without a location maybe th they will decide that having gone through a consultation exercise , they 're only course is to modify the proposals which would then have to be the subject of another E I P . |
| 6 | It was the last thing in the world I wanted to do , but I could n't refuse , not after the work that had gone into a production like this . |
| 7 | In the few weeks that have gone by a boy from the village has been killed by an elephant . |
| 8 | The imager was selected from six finalists of the 1991 competition and has gone through a two-year production stage to prove its commercial viability . |
| 9 | Call me suspicious , but this implies that the crampon , far from adhering steadily to the spot upon which its owner has chosen to commit his or her weight , has decided it prefers an altogether different rock and has gone for a bit of a slide . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're saying that if someone goes up from the North Pole , and keeps going in a dead straight line a really truly dead straight line — they will eventually come to the Earth — ahead of them ? |
| 11 | Financial software house Quality Software Products Holdings Plc has taken the plunge and decided to go for a full listing on the UK stock exchange ‘ to exploit the business opportunities ’ presented by its newly-launched Universal OLAS product ( CI No 2,116 ) . |
| 12 | Perhaps she might stay in Southwark and agree to go for a walk , or at least sit and share a goblet of wine with him and gossip about the past . |
| 13 | John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California . |
| 14 | Mr. Lennis sent for me and said that Mr. Andrew was feeling run down , and had gone for a cruise in one of the ships , the Emily T. I kept expecting a letter or a postcard from him , but nothing came . |
| 15 | ( 18 ) About four months before the time I am writing of , my Lady had been in London , and had gone over a Reformatory … |
| 16 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 17 | And , and even if you were on night duty you 'd be on night duty for twelve hours , you 'd come off at eight in the morning and have to go to a lecture at nine . |
| 18 | There I snored and whinnied and gnashed for nearly three hours , awaking refreshed and raring to go at a little after one . |
| 19 | One of the group took it lightly and suggested going by a slightly different route . |
| 20 | In one he 's in a lift that does n't stop at the top but keeps going into a world of claustrophobia and vertigo . |
| 21 | Quite restrictive , but having gone through a phase of ambivalence about what population they could accommodate , one view was that there was no real problem , another view in the fifties it should be cut back . |
| 22 | At Bicester it hit a roundabout but kept going with a flat tyre heading for Milton Keynes . |
| 23 | His most famous champion , Jasper , would even turn and , by his demeanour and stance , ‘ tell ’ my father that he was not right , when directed to go in a wrong direction in pursuit of some unfortunate , injured but running , bird . |