Example sentences of "go [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Josie glanced at the old folding travel alarm that she kept open on the makeup table , and said , ‘ I have to go somewhere for a minute .
2 It goes on for a minute .
3 The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill .
4 As soon as an assignment has been fully proofed it goes on to a list which is published every two months to all of the sales execs and you just look out for your number , all right ? and you 've got your own personal records of course , if you know you 've earned bonus then that 's where to claim it .
5 We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet .
6 Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students .
7 ‘ And , you know , I have n't the faintest idea of what actually goes on at a baby farm .
8 I think especially in the , in the hotel project it 's useful to have a little bar chart saying this is what goes on in a bathroom .
9 ’ We ca n't attend their committee meetings which is where all the real decisions are made , and we ca n't get information about what goes on in a committee meeting .
10 Further , a family member may find it difficult to " let go " of the primary sufferer while he or she is in treatment and may still want to find out everything that goes on in a treatment centre on a day-to-day basis and there by continue to " fix " by proxy .
11 Never know what goes on in a nutter 's mind .
12 Well that does n't show any er expertise in what goes on in a solicitor 's office at all .
13 The observer 's task is then to observe what goes on in a classroom and , every three seconds , to tick the category that best describes what has been happening during that period .
14 The local nicks at Penzance and St Ives must have some idea what goes on in a set-up like that on their doorsteps . ’
15 Some learn in this way for the first time about what goes on inside a university .
16 THE SPECTATOR , and even the onfield adversary , can little suspect what goes on inside a cricketer 's head .
17 Or , though the process or institution may be , so to speak , on the doorstep , its accessibility may be limited : what goes on inside a defence research establishment or a Masonic Lodge are obvious examples .
18 In the end this is a debate not about bolting versus traditional climbing , it 's a debate about morality — about what goes on inside a climber 's head when he look s at his ( or her ) environment .
19 I 've always thought babies have a pretty rotten life , completely under the control of people who do n't have any idea of what goes on inside a baby 's mind — ’
20 I 'd like you to go on to a university and do music , but I think you 'll do that anyway , and I 'd like you to stop playing other instruments .
21 ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide .
22 At Holy Trinity , Brompton , all four priests are Old Etonians , one of the churchwardens is a former private secretary of Margaret Thatcher 's , and it is not unknown for members of the congregation to go on to a wedding reception in St James 's Palace .
23 My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine .
24 And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth .
25 This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another .
26 If knowing how to go on in a discipline is largely a matter of rule-following , it remains the case that the rules are as much socially imposed by the disciplinary tribe as they are by epistemic considerations ( Becher 1989 ) .
27 That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’
28 I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation .
29 ‘ I — I just want to go below for a moment . ’
30 You know , the computer goes down for a hour , it 's three-quarters of the day to get everything back and validated , and that 's a major interruption .
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