Example sentences of "[pers pn] go [adv prt] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 That 's far below our eyrie — I go down there to scavenge .
2 That 's all that Christian offered me when I went up there to lay out that poor young wife of his .
3 I do not know for certain why I went up there to watch them doing it .
4 When I went round there to take the saw back she was er you know her little tail
5 I just caught a glimpse of you both through one of the windows , but Lewis had already started to come back inside when I went out there to fetch you back . ’
6 A competent woman officer told me first , then I went down alone to see Barbara .
7 Yes , she said but er when I went down there to check after you 'd gone , she said erm yours was erm the driest of them sort of thing .
8 but usually when I went back up to do it , she 'd be sleeping .
9 When I 'd had a bite and patrolled the area , I went back home to sit on the garage roof and have a leisurely wash .
10 Erm the way I understand the situation is Tony 's happy with er his arrangement and that the clubs have agreed and I think it 's just a matter of them going back now to report back to their President the Italian people and then the way I see it he 'll he 'll go after the er game for a medical and you know there should n't be any problems there .
11 They insisted on me going up there to see this chap who was supposed to have proof of a fiddle being carried out by a bunch of telephone operators at one particular exchange .
12 only there wo n't be a bed , but I said if she does , then she 'll have to remember when she goes back home to put it back , cos I 'm not lugging beds about
13 Even if you do claim you went up there to do him in !
14 Their house , Carceri , is a complex world of ancient stone galleries and courtyards , with weird ( and scheduled ) spiral staircases that you go up only to find yourself on the floor below the one you started on — an old dungeon perched among the treetops on a hillside overlooking the city , which they found by a miracle , and had converted .
15 She went on excitedly to explain how her canoe would be arriving in a week or two and she would then telephone the harbour master at Sharpness to find out when the next big bore was due .
16 Lady Eleanor took me into her confidence and told me how every day , late in the evening , she went down there to see if another letter had been left . ’
17 We go on now to look at the importance of the dialogue , and the problems which can occur when communication breaks down .
18 We go up there to get cheap cigarettes , petrol and groceries . ’
19 As the mum of a 12-year-old son , we are both learning as we go along how to use the Amstrad 5086 , my son concentrating more or less on games and school related programs , myself for the odd game , but mainly word-processing ( I have just written my first book ) , genealogy and cheating on addressing the Christmas cards .
20 Supposed to start at six , but we go in earlier to get stuff ready .
21 We went back upstairs to find that all the contents of our lockers had been thrown out over the floors , mixed up , trampled on , and that the lockers themselves had been hurled around the room , across the beds , which had been stripped , and out of the doors .
22 One night along came Doctor Strangelove , so we went out early to eat before the film started , in a taverna near the cinema .
23 We went out there to do a job and we achieved a lot .
24 Well erm you know we 've had a lot of people come to us and say we 've qualified sales by telephone , I do n't present that a problem with that , but we have discovered people have not listened to what we 've been saying , even on the training course , when they go out there to sell the space they keep making appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising .
25 And they went on then to consider lack of understanding of consumers about G M technology as a whole , and made recommendations for erm , er , better labelling , and for a erm , information campaign to be launched as well .
26 Andrew Bergman told me later that when they went out there to make the deal , they felt like the expedition that goes into the jungle to bag King Kong . ’
27 said they went in just to see how she was
28 When he goes out there to wait for her in the evening , I sometimes think : It is n't Rosa .
29 All seemed to be in order , but next morning , after having trouble with one of the receivers , he went up again to make sure he had not inadvertently disturbed anything .
30 He supported himself by painting the portraits of the distinguished people he met on the way , and in Japan he went off alone to live among the aboriginal Ainu .
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