Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] to go [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The High Court in Glasgow heard that as the car started to go over the top of the steps , one of the youths pushing it shouted : ‘ There 's somebody down there . ’ |
| 2 | The planned destruction of so much of Romania 's rural heritage seemed to go against the tenor of Ceauşescu 's out-spoken nationalism . |
| 3 | The constable started to go round the car , examining it minutely occasionally glancing up at the WPC to confirm the impression he was making . |
| 4 | The kitten had to go to the vet three times in as many weeks and was more expensive than the baby . |
| 5 | A Volvo spokesman last night refused to go into the reasons behind the deal . |
| 6 | In fact , if every Briton decided to go to the seaside on the same day there would be only four inches of sand per person ! |
| 7 | The latest proposals coincided with yet another summer of delays as tourist traffic queued to go over the sea to Skye . |
| 8 | Part-way through entering the sale on a computer , the sales assistant had to go into the store room to check the identifying number of the machine selected . |
| 9 | Er taking off and sending telegrams , you see , erm then I was told that the Railway Company wer were taking girls on again , so I applied and I had to go to Ipswich to pass two more exams , you see , and er and started work and the in the Catering Manager 's office at Ipswich Station as , as a clerk doing typing and general office work as the Manager had to go on the district . |
| 10 | But the central and critical point is that the sexual gavotte tended to go with the theatre like pinstripes and a bowler ( then ) went with the City . |
| 11 | In his book Rest Days Hutton Webster has drawn attention to the passage in 2 Kings 4 : 23 , describing how , when the Shunammite woman wanted to go to the prophet Elijah to beg him for her son 's life to be restored , her husband objected , saying ‘ Wherefore wilt thou go to him today ? |
| 12 | The butler had to go to the housekeeper for articles of scullery , kitchen and downstairs linen . |
| 13 | He also felt that there was a case for district courts taking some civil work , such as small claims , which at present had to go to the sheriff courts . |
| 14 | To begin a case the petitioner needed to go to the curia to get a mandate to judges at home or he could send a proctor . |
| 15 | The school had to go to the park with stiff paper flags . |
| 16 | After a few weeks all our money was gone and everything was in pawn so Dad had to go to the relief office . |
| 17 | PostScript could n't be built into the Macintosh , it was too late for that , so the interpreter had to go into the printer , now called the LaserWriter . |
| 18 | I was thankful when the time came to go to the City Division H.Q. |
| 19 | The so this alleyway has been here since at least sixteen ninety , probably rather earlier when the house began to go down the drain as it were , down the plughole . |
| 20 | The tank had to go at the end of the little landing . |
| 21 | She said a policeman knocked on the door at 3am , the family had to go to the hospital to identify their son . |
| 22 | And there was an occasion when we were at a chapel anniversary service and Mother had to go on the platform to sing . |
| 23 | Half the class refused to go to the lessons , frightened of being set on fire or being thrown through a window , but Endill liked the suspense of waiting to see what each mixture did next . |
| 24 | In that hour I heard about life on a London newspaper , the great novel that was one day going to be written , the shock to the Francis family when the General 's eldest son refused to go into the Army . |
| 25 | The rest of the party wanted to go round the block and have another look . |