Example sentences of "[pers pn] go [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We arrived quite late on our first night and , when I went downstairs the next morning the waitress showed us to our table and said : ‘ Good morning , I think you were arriving at eleven o'clock last night . ’ |
| 2 | anorexic , I thought my mum was anorexic when I went home the other day . |
| 3 | It 's the smaller things that get you down — like when I went out the other day to buy a dress for my god daughter 's birthday . |
| 4 | I went upstairs to see the bloke in my bed and I thought this is lucky it was three bloody dogs in your garden when I went out the other night . |
| 5 | David and I went out the other Wednesday , he said . |
| 6 | and she goes why , I goes well every time I got , when I went out the other night and when I come in the other night there was Helena with her arms round Andrew , so it 's not that I , I 'm worried about it but I just think it 's a bit tarty of her cos she 's fancies the pants off Pete and as soon as my back 's turned and Pete is n't there she 's all over Andrew . |
| 7 | Er , I went out the next day to go to er th yeah that was a Sunday I lost it . |
| 8 | There was a lot of undergrowth to be cleared so Stephen and I went down the following Saturday ( 17/10/92 ) to cut down and burn the weeds . |
| 9 | I got up , washed , dressed , and Benjamin and I went down the great sweeping wooden staircase . |
| 10 | I went down the wrong route with the referrals and |
| 11 | So er I went down the Red Lion in Willenhall and fixed him up for a night 's dosh , did n't I , and the driver and then er I worked on , worked on and on and was able to get these er done for him to take back to fit this ship . |
| 12 | I sang down the Bottom Club , so when I went down the next week the manager said I 've just been waiting for you , I 've been waiting for you to come in he said so he said , look the group ca n't come he said , will you sing ? |
| 13 | She said well it 's too late now , the the clear one 's full so we just anyway , went I went down the next day there 's a new one or , next time , there 's a new one down there so they , they must obviously think , well put them all in together . |
| 14 | I , I , I was lucky in the three ground I went too the worst that ever happened to me was I was put head first into a dustbin , but luckily it had been emptied it was still well mucky , but I just fucking went and had a shower , and I come out of the shower and I 'd got pounced upon again and I was there , it must of been a funny site , there 's me right in just a pair of fucking deck chairs that we used to wear for the , the shower block right , fucking shaving , er like the wash kit bag in my right hand and I was holding me fucking towel round , round me waist with me left , I was streaking across the play ground , going as fast as I could |
| 15 | Oh I , when I , when I went there the next morning I had to tell all in front of the class and tell all the kids . |
| 16 | ‘ But when I went back the next day , I was told the two shops were no longer connected . |
| 17 | Here is a test : if you were in Warsaw , faced with an hour to fill before catching a train , would you go up the tallest building in the city to experience a panoramic view , or rush to the bookstore/poster shop in order to buy a massive Telly Savalas poster ? |
| 18 | ‘ You went up the next morning . |
| 19 | But Boxing Day , you go out the next day , so , ordinary exercise . |
| 20 | that 's what I 'm saying , if you go then the following day we 'll bring Philip and then by which time you most probably got news about the old codger here |
| 21 | But it , it just goes to show you that , you know if you , if if you go down the structured way , it does work . |
| 22 | If , if you buy a p a new pair of shoes and realize they 're faulty and you go back the next day and say I bought these shoes from you yesterday , I 've still got my receipt , I believe the shoes are faulty , can I have my money back ? |
| 23 | And on this particular occasion this feller ( if you go along the Low Road and up Fishpond Lane , there 's a farm up there : this feller came from that farm ) and after a setting in at The Case is Altered he died going up Fishpond Lane . |
| 24 | Her heart was hammering as she went up the narrow , cheerless stairs she 'd last climbed before her interview . |
| 25 | Later , in the chapel adjoining the castle , Father Jerome said Benediction and prayed for Sara and the life that lay before her ; and then she went up the narrow staircase to her bed and , when Candida had helped her to undress , stood a while longer at her window , looking through the narrow slit at the lights in the harbour and the dark , massive mountains behind . |
| 26 | She went up the narrow stone stairs with infinite care , reflecting that the last thing she needed was to slip and sprain something , and peered cautiously around her . |
| 27 | She went back the next day . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's none of my business , ’ she replied , gripping the solid wood grab-rails as she went down the five steps with their non-slip treads . |
| 29 | are we going out the front door ? |
| 30 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |