Example sentences of "go [prep] a [noun] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 2 | Sometimes she even manages to go for a drink or meal with friends . |
| 3 | That 's why it 's best to go through an agency or er something like White and Eddies because they have people that collect them and they have people who have to take up references and |
| 4 | Thanks to what Breeze had earned , they were able to rake up the fares — and now here they were , on their way to a remote Devonshire village with just enough money to keep them going for a fortnight or so . |
| 5 | really worked for families if you 're going for a day or maybe two days . |
| 6 | Now you 've worked through these 12 exercises , lightly jog for a few seconds and remember to jog where you can , whether it 's going for a bus or running up the stairs . |
| 7 | We thought we were going for a month or so , until the fighting died down . |
| 8 | I joined them and the going for a week or two was very hard . |
| 9 | Yes because y if you 've used all your hot water you ca n't have that boiler going for an hour or two can you ? |
| 10 | Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work . |
| 11 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 12 | I 'm going in a week or two . |
| 13 | Anyone who has tried to alter their own habits , like going on a diet or giving up smoking , will realise the degree of ill-ease and anxiety it causes . |
| 14 | Perhaps you are going on an outing or meeting a friend . |
| 15 | This may include avoiding facing up to the boss at work , avoiding going to a party or social occasion , and man- ; other situations . |
| 16 | Their handbags are shopping bags , their holidays are day trips , and occasionally going to a son or daughter . |
| 17 | Nutritional counselling aims not to prescribe yet another rigid diet but to guide the patient back to eating in a normal and relaxed way , with sufficient flexibility to adapt to various social settings such as going to a restaurant or eating with friends . |
| 18 | Or , at least , not with work in the sense of going to an office or a factory . |
| 19 | Gives her income and it 's balanced by her allowances and if you move not sufficient to , for the income to exceed that then at the same time it goes into a bank or building society you apply for them not to deduct income . |
| 20 | Section 3 covers the situation where the accused goes into a restaurant or petrol station intending to pay but leaves without doing do . |
| 21 | Well she go Hilda got a baby boy about eighteen month old when I knew her like you know , and er she lived by I think it was I think it was you know and er what happened to her I be I think she had to go in a home or er you see and er baby boy was adopted like , the baby boy that 's about all I know about her that 's about all . |
| 22 | Tomatoes need to go in a bag or else they 'll roll about all the over the place see if you can spot , the small-ish ones , but not like that , see cos that 's got a mark on it , we do n't want that one . |
| 23 | ‘ I will , of course , be happy to go in a week or two 's time , but if it 's at all possible , I very much want to be in London in July . |
| 24 | Oh yes , you would n't be supposed to go to a dance or corn or anything like that . |
| 25 | No longer do you have to go to a bank or stockbroker to deal in shares . |
| 26 | Make it a habit always to go to a lecture or a meeting with a pen and paper and take notes . |
| 27 | I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant . |
| 28 | I it it 's oh no , we do n't want war , we 're all against war , but nobody is prepared to bother actually to go to a meeting or , or pay a small subscription and , and then you w you could of had a very strong United Nations now the same as after the first world war , but it 's the people that did n't do it . |
| 29 | So I chose general farming , and then you chose whether you wanted to go to a farm or and in a hostel , communal . |
| 30 | They point out : ‘ During the first year or so , you will have to work long and unsociable hours and may have to go without a holiday or make other sacrifices . ’ |