Example sentences of "[indef pn] [modal v] go [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this would be fine for writers of science fiction , it would mean that no one 's life would ever be safe : someone might go into the past and kill your father or mother before you were conceived ! |
| 2 | On Martin , where I was , someone would go to the washroom which looks over the pathways to act as lookout , so hardly anyone did stay in bed once the screw had gone off . |
| 3 | Now at this st this stage usually the do-gooders who do n't know any better and put and insist that something should go in the mouth and it should n't , you never ever put anything in anybody 's mouth at all . |
| 4 | Perhaps every one should go to the ground and not go in . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's enough to make one feel one should go into the West End to a Heavy Metal disco or something . ’ |
| 6 | It is an elegant structure of the local grey sandstone , with a balustrade and cornice , and was one of the works of the canal 's engineer John Rennie , one of the great exponents of stone bridges , though much of the credit for this one must go to the architect , Alexander Stevens . |
| 7 | The first Carolingian king , Pippin I , in 754/5 had specified " concerning the mint , that of each pound of silver , not more than 22 solidi were to be minted , of which one must go to the moneyer and the rest to the lord [ king ] " : since the account pound used in normal business reckoning contained 20 solidi , Pippin was in effect decreeing a royal mint charge of 1 solidus , i.e. 5 per cent . |
| 8 | Well o well of course er one would go for the site which would erm , to follow your hypothetical question , not cause damage . |
| 9 | I 've only got old ones an' this one will go to the pawnshop . ’ |
| 10 | That tentative conclusion probably is as far as one can go on the basis of empirical evidence . |
| 11 | This is what masonry is about and as we have seen in Chapter 2 , starting with the simple wall one can go from the arch to the dome and to the most complicated cathedral , keeping everything in compression , or at least trying to do so . |
| 12 | ‘ No-one would go to the trouble to devise such an imposture , and kill at least once , probably twice , to maintain it , just for the possibility of a few snippets of military information . |
| 13 | ‘ I , too , find it incredible that anyone would go to the lengths he has just to discredit my work ! ’ she answered bitterly . |
| 14 | So that and nearly 500 other lots will go under the hammer at Sotherbys tomorrow . |