Example sentences of "[vb past] go [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | Srnicek , in for injured Tommy Wright , asked to go on the list last season because his family were desperately unhappy in England . |
| 8 | Ca n't do the ship cos it wi , got to go on the bench in the garage . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Dexter agreed to go to the hospital and find out what he could . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 14 | Well tried to go across the road and get get a bit of shopping . |
| 15 | A friend who tried to go to the man 's aid had to be held back . |
| 16 | ‘ A couple of blokes tried to go over the wall about a year ago . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | he tried to go out the door but she reached him back , but she has n't |
| 19 | Bemused by what was happening he moved to go to the bathroom , and was immediately grabbed by two police officers . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But there 's quite a few stopped going to the club with women not being well and their legs bad and |
| 24 | Jane thought she 'd better not offer to shake hands in case he let go of the stick and fell over . |
| 25 | He let go of the doorknob and thrust his hands back into his pockets . |
| 26 | The gods smiled on them and she let go of the past . |
| 27 | She let go of the rail and stepped across the landing . |
| 28 | He let go of the door he was clutching for support and tested the muscles in his legs . |
| 29 | She let go of the glass ( whether deliberately or not is unknown ) and the victim was cut by broken glass . |
| 30 | He let go of the handle , and put his large hands round hers , to hold the shears . |