Example sentences of "[vb past] go [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was n't given too long a sentence providing he agreed to go into a clinic — you know — to be dried out and cured . |
| 2 | ‘ She was out of the oxygen tent earlier- and her temperature was coming down with the antibiotics but then when she came to … she opened her eyes and suddenly seemed to go into a panic . |
| 3 | The convulsions subsided and he seemed to go into a coma . |
| 4 | Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job . |
| 5 | she 'd gone for a couple of days when she was up but she says she has n't been up to see her for about eighteen months ! |
| 6 | Well he told me he 'd gone for a count |
| 7 | He said he 'd gone for a count for a job |
| 8 | Ash stopped so suddenly I wondered where she 'd gone for a moment . |
| 9 | I 'd gone for a walk . |
| 10 | Your nanny told me you 'd gone for a walk . |
| 11 | She 'd gone for a walk . |
| 12 | There they were , they , they 'd gone for a walk round London , and er come back . |
| 13 | His parents thought he 'd gone to a friend 's house in the next street . |
| 14 | His wife Margaret had n't been there ; she 'd gone to a meeting of her rock garden club . |
| 15 | But as of , as of nineteen forty eight forty nine , if you 'd said you 'd gone into a village , right you guys we 're going into socialism , we are gon na create collective farming the peasants would have said no . |
| 16 | Well we we 're going round Conways we sa , we 'd gone into a pub for erm we had sort of granary baps did n't we ? |
| 17 | Well , at about half-seven he 'd gone into a restaurant in St Giles ‘ , Browns ; had a nice steak , with a bottle of red wine ; left at about half-nine — and was strolling down to The Randolph when he 'd met Mrs Sheila Williams , just outside the Taylorian , as she was making for the taxi-rank . |
| 18 | For a while there I thought you 'd gone into a coma . |
| 19 | I mean luckily you , you know , you 'd gone on a car , with a car so it 's a matter of throwing everything in the back and just going |
| 20 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 21 | While he was wrestling with this problem , he happened to go to a lecture by Einstein , and was struck by Einstein 's remark that his theory of relativity would fall to the ground if any of several tests failed . |
| 22 | He found that he enjoyed going to a parish to confirm the children , or to institute a new incumbent , and stay afterwards for the sausage rolls or sandwiches at the bunfight and chat up the people with a mixture of silence and belly-bumping laughter and beams all round and leg-pulling but with care and affection . |
| 23 | Rosie gave him an affectionate kiss , and Shelley decided that she needed to go for a walk around the hospital , to leave the two together for a while . |
| 24 | We decided to go to a Hogmanay dance in the village hall , and they came along to watch . |
| 25 | ‘ She decided to go to a hotel — a grand one — and meet a man . |
| 26 | Warning that he would not be so lenient in the future , Mr Peter said it seemed to him that there was a warning for operators here generally , if they decided to go to a tachograph analysis agent . |
| 27 | He had , in fact , just left me on a bench in a nearby park where we had spent some time together before he decided to go for a stroll . |
| 28 | We considered various possibilities , but as neither of us could drive far and neither of us could face airport hassle , we decided to go for a week to Wales . |
| 29 | Bunny , Martin and the other two girls decided to go for a meal in a Swedish restaurant Bunny said he knew in Lisson Grove , the Dead Zone between the Edgware Road and Lord 's Cricket Ground . |
| 30 | I decided to go for a walk westward along the side of the fjord . |