Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] to go [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of his death Campbell was unsuccessfully seeking backers for a jet-driven car to go through the sound barrier . |
| 2 | The painting of July 1890 , executed just days before van Gogh killed himself , and France 's first historic monument to go on the block , was sold on 6 December by Jean-Claude Binoche to French banker and businessman Jean-Marc Vernes . |
| 3 | A painting of a garden at Auvers-sur-Oise by Van Gogh , finished only days before he killed himself , will become the first historical monument to go under the hammer in France when it is sold at Drouot salerooms on 6 December by Paris auctioneer Maître Jean-Claude Binoche of the firm Binoche et Godeau . |
| 4 | The reminiscing had begun and , although she paused briefly to hand round the plates and a bowl of crisp salad to go with the pie , there was no way Harry could stop her . |
| 5 | With Tracey apparently intent on limiting his own involvement , she longed to talk things over with someone who might offer more active help ; at the same time , she felt an almost superstitious reluctance to go through the story again in the kind of detail a confidante would need . |
| 6 | It 's also a personal ambition to go around the circuit . |
| 7 | When Dr Maxwell came along a little later , I asked him about it , and although he pooh-poohed it a bit and said it was all a lot of nonsense , I did get him to admit it could n't do me any actual harm to go to the classes and do exercises . |
| 8 | it was their duty as a cooperative organisation to go to the aid of the N.U.R . |
| 9 | Cuddly lambskin to go in the carrycot |
| 10 | You should learn from this that it does not matter what side you choose for the base as long as you choose the correct Perpendicular height to go with the base . |
| 11 | Witnesses , including an off-duty police inspector , would describe how a silver Renault twice crossed the central reservation to go past the scene of the broken-down car . |
| 12 | My little stand to go with the microphone , I had it here probably fallen in my handbag . |
| 13 | All but about 300 of the East Germans had flatly refused an offer of guaranteed permission to go to the West providing they returned to East Germany first . |
| 14 | Now he had a sudden ambition to go to the ball . |
| 15 | They tend to conclude their account with the formation of the National Government , giving ensuing events — in particular , the decision of the National Government to go to the country as a National Government — fairly perfunctory treatment ; and this despite the fact that , as Ball rightly claims , ‘ The radical restructuring of British politics after 1931 lies not in the events of 13–28 August , but in the changing attitudes within the National Government during September and October 1931 . ' |
| 16 | Jim asked , like a schoolboy wanting permission to go to the bog . |
| 17 | I 've a good mind to go to the Bodega Bar with ye … they sell alcoholic beverages . ’ |
| 18 | As the uterus enlarges and presses on the neck of the bladder , you 'll feel an increased desire to go to the loo . |
| 19 | All you need is a well-fed body to go through the motions of life . |
| 20 | I mean her her s her dad he he come down Green not so long back to go onto the market , what 's that you know just outside the flats . |
| 21 | Is great adventure to go round the world , yes ? ’ |
| 22 | Nicandra thought it might be a good idea to go to the lavatory , next door to the bathroom , rather an adventure as this lavatory was sacred to Dada . |
| 23 | So this is er a milestone if you like or a watershed in the development of human gene mapping , but we have got er a very long way to go in the future . |
| 24 | Which is where Wales would love to be now — though , not withstanding the obvious improvement , there is a long way to go before the benefit of a more productive line-out provided by Anthony Copsey and Gareth Llewellyn and more solid scrummage based on Mike Griffiths , Garin Jenkins and Laurance Delaney is complemented by corresponding forward mobility and the consequent winning of clean , quick loose ball . |
| 25 | But Scotland has a long way to go before the symbiosis of locals and visitors becomes a reality . |
| 26 | These will be handy when they need to put on the pink tie to go to the youth club disco . |
| 27 | Yes , I think it 's totally clear that what we need is a short message , and it 's a white paper , and therefore it 's inviting a message , so what we really need is a short message to go with the A B C and the government act on the two S P's and I would give an undertaking at this point that it will go under the chief environmental health officers ' name . |
| 28 | Especially the Royal Academy , he wrote , with its Presidents and its private views and its Signed Goblets and its Concerts of Spanish music to go with the Murillo exhibition and its Concerts of Russian music to go with its Tatlin exhibition and its Concerts of Dutch music to go with its de Hooch exhibition , and its Silk-screened Scarves and its Special Offers and its Jigsaws of the Raft of Medusa and La Grande Jatte and its Good Taste and its Tondo and its Education Department and its Restaurant with its Tasty Snacks and its Cold Buffet and its Glass of Wine and its Napkins Designed by a Living Artist , and its Proximity to Cork Street , with its Galleries and their Private Views and their Favoured Clients and their Phone Calls to New York and their Summer Shows and their Autumn Shows and their Winter Shows and their Embossed Invitations and their Highly Polished Floors . |
| 29 | The previous week , Virgin had requested immediate permission to go over the facility by some £200,000 , to meet short-term outgoings for the airline ( to pay , in fact , for the engine which had expired on the air-operator 's test flight ) . |
| 30 | But Armstrong was found Guilty and became the only solicitor to go to the gallows for murder . |