Example sentences of "[conj] they go [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He says that they went into the deal with their eyes open , there is no way the council treated them unfairly .
2 It used to be a popular theory that death-feigning animals were somehow self-hypnotised , or that they were thrown into such an acute state of shock by their tormentors that they went into an unconscious , cataleptic state , as though from a fit or seizure .
3 In that same year Welford Beaton argued that it was people like clerks who made up the bulk of the great movie audience and that they went to the cinema for inspiration .
4 Although the Chinese transformed rhinoceros horn into forms of customary refinement , it seems unlikely that they went to the trouble of removing agglutinated masses of hair from rhinoceros snouts and lavishing such skill on them for purely aesthetic reasons .
5 Fewer of those mergers , designed to build diversified conglomerates , were ‘ hostile ’ in the sense that they went over the heads of incumbent managers .
6 And the Christians defended themselves right well , and every time that they went upon the walls , they sounded trumpets and tambours ; and made great rejoicings , as the Cid had commanded .
7 And the result of that , according to the Forum of Private Business , can be that they go to the wall , taking hundreds of jobs with them .
8 The good new s is that they go to the Ranfurly Library .
9 And so they went to the cinema .
10 There were no guards in front of the prison , so they went to the gate and waited there .
11 So she could n't go out to work cos she 'd got young girls to bring up so they went to the social and the social turned round and said to them before we give you any money you 've got ta spend all this bloody redundancy you 've got ta have used all your savings , including the kids savings , and you 've got ta have nothing !
12 Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared .
13 He was carrying a huge bundle of papers and did n't want to walk far , so they went into the Arab cafe beside the Post Office .
14 Ranulf was about to reply when Dame Agatha suddenly emerged , carrying a small wooden box of altar breads , so they went across the green to reclaim their horses .
15 ‘ Well , Falconer had no heirs so they go to the king . ’
16 So we always this has always been the case for the four five hundred years that people have been doing etching , so they go by a rule of thumb .
17 She kept away from the rue de Rivoli and they went into a café near the port .
18 Later-several whiskies later — Hamilton did emerge , and they went into a private office to talk .
19 She slipped her arm through her sister 's , and they went into the dining-room , where a small fire was burning .
20 They went to the hotel , where Filmer and the other owners from the train are staying , and they went into the bar for a drink .
21 Mr Hill : Yes , now , during the war most men between 19 and 38 got called up and they went into the army , navy , airforce and fire-brigade or they had been drafted into factories to make tanks , aeroplanes and munitions so some things , areas , like farming were very short of labour .
22 However , Albert got over that , and so did Jim , and they went into the sitting-room , where Bella was sitting in mini-gear frighteningly too young for her , with office folders on her lap .
23 He said , ‘ Deal , ’ and they went into the library .
24 The door in the high wall was open and they went into the garden .
25 ‘ You can tell me all about this while you pour me a drink , ’ he said quietly and they went into the kitchen .
26 Corbett gave a child a penny to hold the horses and they went into the priest 's house .
27 He wanted to speak , to say anything so as not to seem sullen or graceless , but there was nothing ; and they went into the restaurant stiffly , not looking at each other .
28 Léonie collected Thérèse and they went across the white gravel in the sunshine .
29 During his visit , he and Sadat prayed together in the Nasr ( Victory ) mosque and they went on a cruise around the islands of the Nile .
30 Branson flew back from Europe and they went to a house near Inverness , where Richard 's sister Lindi was staying , for Joan to convalesce .
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