Example sentences of "go [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through Clennam , Cavaletto goes to lodge at the Plornishes , enabling Mrs Plornish ( Sally , except in chap . |
| 2 | Meanwhile a carefree Madonna goes jogging on the beach with her personal trainer . |
| 3 | Hey mummy you know when you used to go to toilet in the middle of a conversation . |
| 4 | We 've just had a golf course defined as a strategic issue and I think that in a way goes goes goes to the heart of what this is what this is all about . |
| 5 | The Artificer commonly goes clad like the Yeoman : the Yeoman like the Gentleman : the Gentleman as the Nobleman : the Nobleman as the Prince : which bringeth great confusion , and utterly overturneth the order which God hath set in the states and conditions of men . |
| 6 | The metal ball swung in a ponderous arc to go crashing into the front of The Haven . |
| 7 | I was always worried when he went to work , but y you do n't think your husband 's going to go to work in the morning at five o'clock and never come home again . |
| 8 | You 've got a limited number of slots to sell so you do n't need to go thrashing around the country |
| 9 | just about to go in his room erm Will 's study you know he said , you know , bit late to go knocking on the window , this is the boys ' area er er you know , you should n't be here at this time of night , this is the boys ' area . |
| 10 | You want a Sierra estate mate if you want to go knocking about the Lake District with the dogs . |
| 11 | ‘ Then you 'll doubtless be delighted to learn that I have n't cried since the day I decided to go boating on the duck pond at home , only to find when I was halfway across that my rowing-boat was holed . |
| 12 | I planned to travel with him , but I told him that I wanted to go walking in the mountains alone . |
| 13 | After all , what better way is there to get to know the countryside and to become aware of the natural world than to go walking in the countryside ? |
| 14 | Mr Gorbachev reportedly offered to resign at Saturday 's meeting after Kemerevo party chief Alexander Melnikov ‘ really let himself get carried away and said something like this : ‘ Is it proper to go bowing to the capitalists ? to go asking a blessing from the Pope ? ’ ' according to a conservative Central Committee member . |
| 15 | ‘ Tonight he goes swimming with the PT teacher in charge . |
| 16 | Mr Hartley 's mother Isabel said : ‘ He often has barbecues and goes swimming at the river when it 's hot . ’ |
| 17 | One slightly frustrating aspect of this book is the lack of a bibliography , meaning that one has to go hunting in the footnotes for first references . |
| 18 | Every morning we woke to find ourselves surrounded by fresh tracks made by capybaras ( the world 's largest species of rodent , looking something like a giant guinea pig ) ; on our last evening , the boatman killed an alligator as it crawled past our camp-fire to go hunting in the reeds beyond . |
| 19 | If he goes hunting through the texts for a quick recipe for gold or earthly power he 'll soon get lost , give up . |
| 20 | I wondered how long it would take him , and whether Diggs would now have to go shouting through the town , warning that the mad boy who set fire to dogs was on the loose again ; lock up your hounds ! |
| 21 | The Dean was about to go fund-raising in the States . |
| 22 | We all used to go swimming from the beach here but Sabine was never a swimmer . |
| 23 | It was the summer when I was there so they were then starting to go swimming in the school pool . |
| 24 | The dogs ' descendants were still with him , though rheumatism made it difficult for him to go scrambling over the fields at night with the powerful torch to blind the rabbits . |
| 25 | All it needed was someone to go looking for the jack , find their hands curling round them and start asking why … |
| 26 | It goes wandering through the files unchecked , pulling open the drawers and scattering the papers , writing wild minutes of its own . |
| 27 | And we si and we sing it upstairs and she goes wandering up the stairs and we hide in the airing cupboard ! |
| 28 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 29 | I would have had another one on the third day as well , but I gave it up for the opportunity to go rabbiting with the lad who worked for Brian . |
| 30 | The old Labrador and the two Jack Russell terriers loved to go rabbiting along the bank . |