Example sentences of "his [noun] go [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could feel the tremors of his heart go from a steady pounding to something more erratic . |
| 2 | Joseph Berkas , an Austrian philatelist who got into a spot of bother with the police following a misunderstanding at his digs , was given an absolute discharge when his case went before a court in Vienna . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not a very good passenger , ’ he said , his eyes going into a deadlock . |
| 4 | The scene-of-crimes man stumbled as one of his feet went into a rabbit hole . |
| 5 | GRAHAM TAYLOR has ordered his team to go on a Turkey shoot at Wembley on Wednesday night . |
| 6 | Mr Tweddle said the driver parked while his wife went into a shop and when he saw her returning he started the car and reversed . |
| 7 | Looking in at the observation ward , with its partly screened beds , she hoped that Mike Quinn — poor man — would n't take it into his head to go in a hurry . |
| 8 | Justin has n't had this much ink for a decade , not since his million-pound transfer from Norwich to Nottingham Forest , where , from being the highest scorer in the First Division , his career went into a premature tailspin . |
| 9 | It was his habit to go for a run round his island every day before breakfast , and that morning , because rain was forecast for the rest of the day , he 'd taken advantage of the brief spell of fine weather early on to gather up driftwood from the beach after his run . |
| 10 | As a break in pre-season training in August 192 1 , Chapman and his players went on a charabanc trip to Harrogate , where they enjoyed an afternoon game of bowls . |
| 11 | His food goes in a corner manger and a brick goes in with it ; the weight of the brick means he ca n't throw the manger about and we can only assume that its bulk gives him something to think about . |
| 12 | Somebody lost his way going to a lunch party at the Metcalfes ' , but I did n't let him in . |
| 13 | The offender and his accomplice went to a sub-post office at nine o'clock in the morning just as the safe was being opened . |
| 14 | We might argue , for example , that promoting a father from the most menial labouring job to a semi-skilled factory job is still unlikely to lead to his son going to a selective school , since so few working class children go . |