Example sentences of "go [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Heinzer , the Mister Nice of the Swiss Team , exploiting an avowed intent to turn Mister Ugly — ‘ I want to go for the big wins ’ — won the first race .
2 This is perfectly normal when the body goes through the physiological changes which are often brought about by the Technique .
3 A Man Utd fan dies and goes to heaven but before he goes through the pearly gates he has to pass a test .
4 They would even have to go through the new routines in between shows .
5 But of course it would be possible to go through the behavioural motions of requesting without having any of the requisite beliefs and intentions .
6 Well could I have comments on the principle or principles of er by using criteria and then I 'd like to go through the individual criteria or individual criterion one by one .
7 In other words , while the court would not have imposed liability in respect of the decision itself ( except if it had been perverse ) failure to go through the preliminary steps of obtaining essential information could have grounded liability .
8 Fortunately , the researcher does not have to go through the bound volumes one by one to see what they contain .
9 I see no reason for us actually to go through the whole pros and cons .
10 I thanked him for his help , assured him that we would begin to go through the proper channels tomorrow , and said good-night .
11 Even with the best economic policy it will take two years from this point to go through the unavoidable stages of deflation and recession to reach the start of recovery .
12 he 's he 's er , she 's goes for the rich guys you see .
13 That goes for the well-meaning GPs , health visitors and breastfeeding counsellors as well as the woman down the road who fed four babies herself until they were two years old !
14 Stripes always look good when they are vertical and the same goes for the soft edges of these stripes .
15 Barkley suggests that children have the opportunity to save a third of the tokens each day to go towards the special rewards on the ‘ menu ’ .
16 MAKING TRACKS This month 's Making Tracks goes behind the closed doors of the record industry for an intriguing glimpse inside the minds of the A&R men and women of the business , those people on whose whim your musical career could stand or fall …
17 The plane 's path goes behind the big trees — now you can see why I needed the white areas of the trees actor to be transparent , so you can see through them .
18 Whether or not there is a God , none of the great religious traditions can be saddled with intentionally fostering such anthropomorphism , for it goes against the fundamental tenets of their faith .
19 In this way , Hammer became a victim of its own phenomenal success , always going for the big thrills and unable to get away with offering anything less than what was expected from a ‘ Hammer ’ film .
20 It was almost certainly going through the final stages of the digestive process .
21 Not only were we going through the timid rituals of conventional courtship after a six-month diet of take-away sex , but I was the one who insisted that it stay that way until we were legally united .
22 I am back in the little room at the top of the spiral staircase on Wednesday morning and I am sitting on the Squeez-Ee box , with the minute in front of me , going through the remaining contents of the Quaker Oats archive , page by dusty page .
23 I was going through the death-registry books in the cartrio civil of Bom Jesus da Mata , a market town in the sugar-plantation region of Pernambuco in the Brazilian North-East .
24 Would not the courts therefore be able to take into account the facts of offences without going through the restrictive provisions in this ill-considered new Bill ?
25 As Martin Walker says : ‘ The Oxford of the late Sixties was going through the heady delights of the sexual revolution .
26 The other system is known as record-playback and involves the skilled craft operator going through the physical motions of machining the first piece of the batch with the machine in record mode .
27 They keep wanting to supply goods without going through the proper procedures .
28 I had no intention of going through the proper channels ; it could take weeks .
29 This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 .
30 Henry 's been going through the old ledgers but can not find any sign of a fiddle .
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