Example sentences of "[vb past] go [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 4 | And I , foolish man , felt so rebuffed that I hardly ever tried to go through the barriers . |
| 5 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 6 | The children and Mother walked behind the cart along a dark , dirty road , which seemed to go across the fields . |
| 7 | He 'd gone through the drawers once , looking for something — he could n't remember what , but there was nothing personal in that desk . |
| 8 | And er one of the men that was helping the old man to do something , to repair the the these tools you know , and he he 'd gone to the stores to get something and leaning over the counter to get something er er to sort of talk as one goes on a on a counter lean he was leaning a on the counter , and he erm the the the storeman he was a tough little beggar , and he said , I 've got a I 've got a I 've got a toothache . |
| 9 | They were in the corridor and the Substitute was coming towards them , but the Captain had caught a glimpse of the figure that turned to go down the stairs beyond him . |
| 10 | Very slowly , she began to go down the stairs , step by step , wincing every time one creaked and glancing over her shoulder every ten seconds or so . |
| 11 | The police are very unwilling to interfere in family matters and apparently when she threatened to go to the police whatever he told her he would say to them if she did report her daughter missing convinced her it would be useless for her to take such action . |
| 12 | ‘ Surprisingly I enjoyed going to the ladies ’ sewing circle , with Matey , ’ wrote Sally-Anne in her journal . |
| 13 | and again rose , the pastor taking the cup and speaking the chosen words , whilst those who served went with the cups among the congregation … |
| 14 | When they escaped with these younger , more eligible men , they loved to go to the bistros and discover French food . |
| 15 | After media publicity , Laing decided to go to the police on a damage limitation exercise , it was alleged . |
| 16 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 17 | If 70,000 dared to go on the streets feeling they might be beaten up or worse , how many might demonstrate if that fear is removed ? |
| 18 | When I dared to go to the scales I discovered that I had lost a further ten pounds in five days . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , ’ drawled Odell unexpectedly , ‘ he did go to the kidnappers alone and unarmed — except for some goddam marzipan . |
| 20 | But Charles had a nagging fear that it was n't that , that Michael Banks really was trying , that he did go through the lines time after time in the evenings , but that his mind could no longer retain them . |
| 21 | You did go round the houses on that that was n't to get the point |
| 22 | He was in charge because Toby had to go with the swimmers to Sturford . |
| 23 | That morning , when the doctor saw I had to go with the pirates to find the treasure , he had left the squire to look after the captain , then took Gray and Ben Gunn with him to be ready to help us . |
| 24 | and the Stationmaster 's office faced the platform but there is another door that to get into as soon as you got in the main door to the left , you see and with a flap and that 's the door that we used to take in the parcels , you see and very often we used to go in that door or sometimes we would go through o on to the platform and go in the Stationmaster 's door , you see and then there again , if I took messages to the Stationmaster on the single telegraph er I had to go down the steps because th more often than not that they were in the basement . |
| 25 | I had to go to the doctors , carrying on , outside everything |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't see , ’ said Paul , ‘ why Erlend had to go to the houses . |
| 27 | Con had to go to the Magistrates Court this morning . ’ |
| 28 | Then we had to go to the banks and change our covenants , which were based on TI 's net tangible assets , which in turn were damaged by the write-off . |
| 29 | Dad was under his car working on it one Sunday morning when the police drove by and handed him a ‘ producer ’ , which meant that he had to go to the police station with all his driving documents . |
| 30 | Second thing was that having covered absolutely everything she was n't any estate , or at least did n't appear to be any so the surviving spouse was n't very interested in taking out a grant anyway cos it was n't going to get him any funds , so we then have the job of doing what 's called debarring him and basically he renounced his right to be of the administrator and we then had to go under the rules to find the next person which was one of the specific beneficiaries I E the sons . |