Example sentences of "[prep] go [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Will ultimately go through the solution that you 're looking at , in terms of optical activity it comes out t' other end , cos light tends to do that , you know it 'll come t' other end and at this end , after going through a length system etcetera , will be a an eyeball . |
2 | For example , Skinner argues that , to the extent that the thirsty person receives a drink after going into a pub and requesting ‘ a pint of beer ’ , that behaviour , requesting a pint of beer , is reinforced . |
3 | The jury had been told how Emma and Becky Harper , 17 , agreed to a sex session in the barn after going for a drink at a pub in the village of Uckington , Glos . |
4 | He was found by a mountain rescue team near his home in Edmondstown , Rhondda , on Sunday , six days after going for a walk with his two terriers named Sweep and Red . |
5 | The adrenalin of going to a Court had kept it at bay so far but now I could feel the walls closing in again . |
6 | David was so upset about the prospect of going to a day centre that when the ambulance arrived he had uncharacteristic temper tantrums on the doorstep . |
7 | He thought , briefly , of going to a night-club later , picking up a girl . |
8 | His teachers at his Plymouth school threw scorn on the idea of going to a redbrick university when he could have chosen Oxford , but he felt a strong pull towards oil engineering and displayed the stubborn streak that was later to characterise his industrial career . |
9 | I was staying in the police house — they had several police station-houses for CID men staying , instead of going to a hotel . |
10 | ‘ Well , actually I thought of going to a cinema . |
11 | Another explained that the alternative cost of going to a library is very high . |
12 | In in terms of going to a business yeah . |
13 | I can actually imagine the feeling of going to a cot and then finding no no the child was dead , that 's awful . |
14 | SUEDE singing star Brett Anderson is terrified of going to a rave in case he gets beaten up . |
15 | We pulled into Coventry police station and instead of going to a cafe , as we had hoped , we got shut in one cell and left there for about two hours with the most revolting sandwiches you 've ever seen in your life . |
16 | Neither of them was young , and the thought of going to a place where everything including the language was different — apart from Slovene and German they spoke only Triestino — cast a deep gloom over them ; but they had no choice . |
17 | Perhaps you are fine when dealing with someone on a one-to-one basis but dread the thought of going to a party . |
18 | This consisted of going down a river , rapids and all , in a caving system , armed with only a wetsuit and a rubber ring . |
19 | They thought that we meant the insults and could n't initially figure out why the injured party would fall about laughing instead of going into a sulk . |
20 | She struck him as perilous and avid , and he had the sensation of going into a skid . |
21 | My earliest memories of being abused are of going into a neighbour 's house when I was five or six and getting money for what he made me do . |
22 | ‘ House Of Fun ’ became the first number one hit about the problems of going into a chemist for a packet of condoms and they had plenty of other insights left in them : ‘ Blue Skinned Beast ’ , unfortunately missing from this compilation , is one of the most scathing political tunes which British pop has ever produced , the kind of thing which has completely disappeared from the contented scene of today . |
23 | You would n't dream of going into a restaurant and just ordering ‘ a meal please ’ . |
24 | Fun as it might be to imagine what a ‘ top twenty ’ list might include , there would be little real purpose in discussing the practicalities , or otherwise , of going on a cruise , owning a race horse , buying a caravan , flying Concorde or whatever , since not only — even among married couples — would there be wide variations in choice but more particularly , since normal budget wisdom does not apply , any advice would risk being grossly misleading . |
25 | These days the idea of going on a diet , or trying to control what I eat , or even trying to eat ‘ healthily ’ , would never occur to me . |
26 | A jury has decided that a man accused of going on a shooting rampage at a seaside town in which 1 person died and 17 were injured , is mentally unfit to stand trial . |
27 | I thought of going for a coffee , but , |
28 | They want to try and get her home instead of going in a school . |
29 | This hybrid bike from Raleigh combines popular mountain and road bike features making it perfectly suited for people who like mountain bikes but have no intention of going near a mountain . |
30 | And that 's when I felt that I wished I had of went for a career in the trade union or I felt that had I done that , I would have been satisfying something that was there . |