Example sentences of "[pron] goes [adv prt] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them goes round putting the chimneys on and the other checks the flue . |
| 2 | This is from one of the letters written by Shelley in Italy , which goes on to describe the painting of St Cecilia by Raphael : |
| 3 | She goes on to represent the province at the world final of the Smirnoff International Fashion Awards in Rio in October , with the chance to win 10,000 US dollars to help develop her career . |
| 4 | Get rid of Norman for a start ; you ca n't have a chancellor who goes round telling the voters ‘ Je ne regrette rien ’ , when lots of them have lost their jobs and their homes because of what he does n't regret . |
| 5 | Erm and our marketing executive who goes round signing the surgery up leaves a certain amount of information er and particularly these erm a sheet si similar to this with er we ask the practice to sit down and compile a list of businesses . |
| 6 | It goes on to define the objective of this policy as safeguarding ‘ the common values , fundamental interests and independence of the Union ’ . |
| 7 | A body may be acting within the scope of its authority at the outset but may , by the way it goes about taking the decision , go outside the four corners of the Act . |
| 8 | He goes on to explain the nature of a specifically Christian order — a society which would construct a framework for the political acts of the state , which would realize the importance of a Christian education and in which a " Community of Christians " , an elite of both laity and clerisy , would influence the values of the ordinary citizens of the country . |
| 9 | In Act One he first of all introduces himself and his job and what this entails and then he goes on to set the scene by describing the general vicinity and its history . |
| 10 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
| 11 | He thinks that when he goes on to test the device in human patients , it should prove successful over long periods . |
| 12 | He goes on to deplore the abandonment of ‘ subjects that really matter ’ , and the exchange of ‘ solid fact ’ for ‘ airy speculation ’ . |
| 13 | He goes on to report the gentleman 's recollections of his servant , perhaps revealing inadvertently something about Leapor 's difficulties in the house : |
| 14 | He goes on to consider the work of writers who have explored the nature of the relationship between professions , clients , and the state . |
| 15 | He goes on to make the point that the Scots possessed advanced tastes and understanding in literature , with a Latin poetry that ‘ would have done honour to any nation ’ , but then ponders aloud — no wonder he offended them so — why ‘ men thus ingenious and inquisitive were content to live in total ignorance of the trades by which human wants are supplied , and to supply them by the grossest means . |
| 16 | He goes on to expound the precision with which the cogs and springs of a watch are fashioned , and the intricacy with which they are put together . |
| 17 | ‘ One of the couples is dividing the babysitting so that she stays at home and he goes out to do the babysitting . |