Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] go [adv prt] to " in BNC.

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1 The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic .
2 ‘ Oh , I 'm well enough , ’ Mrs Clamp said , shaking her head and coming down off the stool , picking up some more frozen burgers and going back to the freezer .
3 Corbett nodded , smiled his thanks and went over to where Alexander now slouched in a half-drunken stupor .
4 Unless she cut her losses and went back to England .
5 The small voice inside her , urging her to cut her losses and go back to England , leaving the residents at the Château La Tour Monchauzet to stew in their own rancour , was being overwhelmed by a furious determination to vindicate her mother 's memory at all costs .
6 Earlier this year , in May , they voted for change , but when Noriega disavowed the election result the mass of the people shrugged their shoulders and went back to work .
7 Here , in an empty silence , he unpacked his bicycle panniers and went up to the pantry where the bulk of the xerox squatted amongst unsavoury tea-towels beside a tea-stained sink .
8 At the well they left their books and went down to the shore .
9 Taskopruzade and Mecdi assign this event to the reign of Bayezid I ( 1389–1402 ) , saying that as a result of a quarrel between Molla Fenari and that sultan , the former abandoned his posts and went off to Karaman where the emir gave him a salary of 1,000 akce a day and each of his pupils 500 akce a day .
10 To her surprise he jerked to his feet and went over to the video machine and yanked the cassette out without rewinding it .
11 I get to my feet and go over to the window , easing back the soft material , looking at the houses opposite in the half-light .
12 Sometimes I braved the elements and went out to the garage and thought about a hosepipe on the exhaust of the car , but I was never brave enough to face real oblivion , although when I went to bed at night , I used to refer to it as slipping into oblivion .
13 Fluffing her hair in a fine halo around her head with brisk brush strokes , and sketching in warm-toned eyeshadow , mascara and lipstick , Belinda was soon ready to slip into matt black court shoes and go out to the veranda .
14 She dressed and put on her shoes and went down to Emma 's flat .
15 He supervised several Rhodes scholars , who obtained their doctorates and went on to successful careers .
16 Ranulf humoured him and , once they were through the Galilee Gate , handed over the promised coins and went back to the guest house .
17 During the war he sold his interest in his galleries and went off to war ; following this six-year closure he reopened the Hans Road gallery but decided not to reopen the American galleries ; it was hard enough to get the good material for one shop .
18 But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears .
19 King agreed with me as to Mr Gould being an entirely uneducated man — he sd when he came here [ to Sydney ] he brought verbal introductions from Sir J. to difft. individuals & went up to them & sd .
20 She picked up the first box of jars and went back to the room .
21 We visited many places and went out to dinner and went to London during that time to watch the theatre production of ‘ Cats ’ by Andrew Lloyd Web which I think is the most memorable event of that holiday ; as well as going to Canterbury Cathedral .
22 Yet the schools they attend are , on the whole , not as good in terms of status , teacher input and , sometimes , physical surroundings ; they make less use of the educational system beyond the compulsory school stage ; they are less likely to pass government examinations and go on to university ; and they are far more likely to end up in manual occupations , just like their fathers and mothers .
23 She picked her way over the scattered things and went on to the balcony .
24 Some people would like to stop these changes and go back to what they see as a purer and simpler age .
25 The depth gauge tells you how deep you are an essential piece of equipment prices start at 20 pounds and lastly the backpack this hold the tank on your back prices start at 20 pounds and go up to 310 pounds the expensive one include an integrated life jacket which is adjustable .
26 Every evening I watched Eliza and Georgiana putting on their new dresses and going out to parties .
27 In 1927 he joined the Portland Cement Company , who denied him car-racing rights but went on to be a sponsor for Golden Arrow .
28 The editors revelled in the honour , ate their lunches and went back to their offices to continue publishing every last tit-bit they could find .
29 Laughing at this last jibe , she swept some papers into her arms and went over to the far side of the nurses ' station , where files were stored , leaving Belinda relieved to be alone .
30 He was stationed in an old chapel in Chuckery because the Americans once they 'd started they were putting them everywhere or anywhere they could just get to be with them before V Day they were even in little chapels , churches , outhouses anywhere they could possibly and there were guns and bits of trucks on every spot of land where they could get them the er , I 'm getting out of context I was just thinking about a tank , a First World War tank that they used to have those as well in the field gun in the er arboretum which were disappeared soon after the war they went for scrap and they came and they used , people used to have a lot of wrought iron railings as well they took those as well they came along with burners and went off to the war effort , but er like I say the Americans and of course as kids they were very generous with kids and we absolutely loved them .
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