Example sentences of "go [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Mr Gould 's followers , health spokesman David Blunkett , urges Labour not to go for the unity of the graveyard . |
| 2 | According to Electronic News , Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG is in final discussions with Apple Computer Inc and the AT&T Co-Eo Inc-Matsushita Electric Industrial Co before deciding whether to go for the architecture of the Advanced RISC Machines Ltd ARM-based Newton , or the AT&T Co Hobbit-based device . |
| 3 | The spa at Evian has been famous since the 18th century as the place to go for the treatment of kidney stones and urinary infections . |
| 4 | ‘ We do n't want to go for the sort of so called innovation that can alienate an audience , ’ he exclaims when we talk about the sometimes clichéd dynamics of their music . |
| 5 | He decided to go for the label of being a careful writer . |
| 6 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 7 | It is more difficult to know whether an animal goes through the experience of at one moment not being able to see a food item , but then being able to see it at the next . |
| 8 | It 's great to go slow where you 've got houses , children and all the other things , but I , Avenue , which is on er plan five , is one of the radial roads that goes through the centre of erm out in the direction and to put a thirty mile an hour speed limit on this I think is totally unrealistic . |
| 9 | The Oxfordshire Way , which stretches 30 miles through the county , now goes through the centre of the new club house for the Oxfordshire Golf club . |
| 10 | Coran Brothers FC have their ground on the outskirts of Watley and as the train goes through the middle of the town you may think it impossible to see any of Linekar Avenue but this is not so . |
| 11 | — Next , Moses goes through the law of God , the pattern of obedience which God requires from his blood-bought people ( verse 7 ) . |
| 12 | er I 've got several favourites , er the one at Thrupp , Hampton Gay which I mentioned , where the train disaster was , that 's a particularly nice one because it 's along very nice stretches of canal and river , I like the one er up at er the Rollright Stones , and , and I like the ones in the Chilterns as well , there 's a couple in the Chilterns , one at er Watlington Hill , just outside the town of Watlington , and er one which goes through the grounds of Stonor Park , but er superb scenery up there obviously with the beech woods and so on . |
| 13 | Nearing the head of the loch , the road goes through the woodlands of the Beinn Eighe Nature Reserve and trails are available for the public up the mountainside . |
| 14 | I agree with the hon. Member for Normanton ( Mr. O'Brien ) that if the fast link goes through the east of Kent it should not finish at Stratford ; it must come to King 's Cross . |
| 15 | He belongs to a paper society which goes through the motions of life , in the air , notionally . |
| 16 | The person who sits on the dais in Ottawa or Canberra and goes through the motions of opening a Parliament is not and can not be the same being at all as the person who does these things and has done them from time immemorial at Westminster . |
| 17 | To illustrate this point , Piaget uses the following examples : the creation or imagined characters to provide a sympathetic audience for a child 's actions or speech ; catharsis , as when a doll is allowed to ride a machine which a child fears ; and compensatory combinations , as when a child goes through the motions of pretend washing up when forbidden access to the real thing by its parent . |
| 18 | This offence also carries a maximum of life imprisonment and since lack of consent need not be proved , the girl will not be required to go through the ordeal of giving evidence on the matter . |
| 19 | Nor do you have to go through the formality of claiming relief on it . |
| 20 | I can understand that they do n't want to get , to go through the rigmarole of court . |
| 21 | It means that , depending on the context , I can communicate something subtly different from what I intended before without us first having to go through the rigmarole of defining new terminology to extend the language . |
| 22 | Apparently they have had people calling in saying , ‘ please could I speak to Sue ’ , and that could be anybody , and then the switchboard has to go through the rigmarole of saying , ‘ what 's it all about , do you know where the person works , can you give me a bit more information ’ , and it takes up a lot more of their time , so please , if you 're leaving a message for somebody to call you back , leave your full name and your extension number . |
| 23 | Tony Gordon 's Kiwis , who will now find it difficult to go through the remainder of their tour undefeated , are not as tight and efficient a force as Graham Lowe 's team of four years ago , but with a virtual Test side out , should have been far too strong for Murphy 's collection of reserves . |
| 24 | Before considering how we might do the job mathematically , let us just draw in a line by eye , to go through the centre of the data points . |
| 25 | He 'd had another sleepless night and ahead lay customs , who could n't be expected to be exactly pro-British , and because of post and telephone strikes in Argentina , he had n't been able to confirm the flight with Alejandro , so they 'd have to go through the hassle of hiring a car to drive the 330 kilometres out to his estancia . |
| 26 | On the other hand , the old Chancery practice which compelled B to go through the whole of A's story and give an answer upon oath to everything said in it has disappeared ; the evidence in the ordinary course is given viva voce in court when the trial comes on . |
| 27 | As soon as she started to go through the bundle of letters , all Moran 's attention was fixed on the sorting . |
| 28 | GCCS made particularly good progress breaking the Japanese naval attaché cipher traffic , both in London and elsewhere in Europe , since many foreign cable companies routed their signals through repeater stations in places like Malta where GCCS could acquire all interesting traffic without having to go through the charade of obtaining a warrant . |
| 29 | If you are close , you can appreciate the other 's character without having to go through the anxiety of behaving that way yourself . |
| 30 | In this case the only way to be sure is to go through the procedure of HIV testing . |