Example sentences of "[vb past] go [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kyffin Williams never intended to be a painter , he planned to go into the army but was rejected on medical grounds . |
| 2 | He was given a scan at the hospital 's radiology department and once his treatment was finished he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 3 | ‘ First he asked to go to the toilet . |
| 4 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 5 | It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed . |
| 6 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 7 | I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs . |
| 8 | Srnicek , in for injured Tommy Wright , asked to go on the list last season because his family were desperately unhappy in England . |
| 9 | Yes , I , I was in er , I 'm not sure , I , I think I was in the top class in the junior school and er , without boasting , I was a good scholar and I eventually passed to go to the Q M and me dad could n't afford to let me go . |
| 10 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 11 | Ca n't do the ship cos it wi , got to go on the bench in the garage . |
| 12 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 13 | Oh aye he applied to go to the Gulf . |
| 14 | Dexter agreed to go to the hospital and find out what he could . |
| 15 | Despite intensive pressure to resign in the aftermath of the serious rioting of late April and early May — itself a product of the acquittal of those officers accused of assaulting King — and police failings which the unrest revealed [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , King continued to prevaricate until June 8 when he finally agreed to go at the end of the month . |
| 16 | But in the end she agreed to go with the Pitts to the local police station to express concern about the absentees . |
| 17 | Ajdabiyans expected to go to the polls in the winter of 1978–9 , and in anticipation their political activists had drawn up two lists of candidates for each of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 18 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 19 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 20 | And I , foolish man , felt so rebuffed that I hardly ever tried to go through the barriers . |
| 21 | Well tried to go across the road and get get a bit of shopping . |
| 22 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 23 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 24 | ‘ A couple of blokes tried to go over the wall about a year ago . |
| 25 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 26 | he tried to go out the door but she reached him back , but she has n't |
| 27 | Bemused by what was happening he moved to go to the bathroom , and was immediately grabbed by two police officers . |
| 28 | Railwaymen who worked in the area had been so overcome by a feeling of evil that pervaded a particular location that they refused to work the night-shift that involved going near the place in question . |
| 29 | I tried going through the undergrowth and looping round — my sense of direction had far improved from peacetime — but the saw-toothed grasses left me bleeding like a scored steak . |
| 30 | Th the problem with suggestion therapy whether it be hypnosis or group therapy is it does n't tend to last in the longer run after the person stopped going to the group or they have n't seen the the er hypnotist for reinforcement . |