Example sentences of "go [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He was willing to go to confirm in an emergency at very short notice and this earned him some long-lasting gratitude . |
2 | Through Clennam , Cavaletto goes to lodge at the Plornishes , enabling Mrs Plornish ( Sally , except in chap . |
3 | Meanwhile a carefree Madonna goes jogging on the beach with her personal trainer . |
4 | Hey mummy you know when you used to go to toilet in the middle of a conversation . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The metal ball swung in a ponderous arc to go crashing into the front of The Haven . |
8 | We have got to go to work with a lot of of of er tension and pressure on us . |
9 | Charles Brown , for example , was born in Northamptonshire in 1855 and had to go to work as a boy when his father , an agricultural labourer earning 12s. a week , was taken ill . |
10 | ‘ Leo actually had to go to work in a pair of my knickers , ’ Emma said . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | You 've got a limited number of slots to sell so you do n't need to go thrashing around the country |
13 | 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 . |
14 | You want a Sierra estate mate if you want to go knocking about the Lake District with the dogs . |
15 | ‘ 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 . |
16 | I planned to travel with him , but I told him that I wanted to go walking in the mountains alone . |
17 | 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 ? |
18 | 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 . |
19 | ‘ Tonight he goes swimming with the PT teacher in charge . |
20 | Mr Hartley 's mother Isabel said : ‘ He often has barbecues and goes swimming at the river when it 's hot . ’ |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | If he goes hunting through the texts for a quick recipe for gold or earthly power he 'll soon get lost , give up . |
24 | 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 ! |
25 | The Dean was about to go fund-raising in the States . |
26 | We all used to go swimming from the beach here but Sabine was never a swimmer . |
27 | It was the summer when I was there so they were then starting to go swimming in the school pool . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place . |
30 | All it needed was someone to go looking for the jack , find their hands curling round them and start asking why … |