Example sentences of "could go [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 2 | And I think that could be the area , or the the type of development which could go on the flats . |
| 3 | I asked Mum if I could go on the Pill . |
| 4 | You see what you could do , is you could go on the Friday and I could pick you up Saturday evening . |
| 5 | You could go with the travel club , I suppose , but then you do n't get the chance to come down the Three Goats Heads pub in the city centre before and after the match and meet everyone else from the list — hopefully . |
| 6 | This could go across the mud and it easily . |
| 7 | John Durno , governor of Saughton prison , said yesterday that up to 200 prisoners could go through the programme in the year . |
| 8 | In a rough-house , there were some constables who , even their colleagues recognized , could go over the top . |
| 9 | It was all right for men , they could go over the side . |
| 10 | Another friend of mine , a man who spent most of his adult life looking after his elderly parents until they both died within a year of each other , came home from work one evening and suddenly realised that he could go to the cinema and have a meal out without worrying about anyone else . |
| 11 | Do you think I could go to the powder room and take off my girdle ? ’ she said . |
| 12 | And then but it was seen as okay that the men could go to the pub after a funeral ? |
| 13 | You could go to the drapery , the hardware , the grocery , anywhere Gents clothing or anything like that . |
| 14 | If you went to Sunday school every week you could go to the seaside free . |
| 15 | At the end of the hut a boy waited , sitting hunched on an upper bunk , for darkness to come to the living quarters because then he could go to the mattress of the man who loved him … |
| 16 | the dinosaurs exhibition at the Hancock and the other things there , cos it 's a good museum , then we could have er lunch at MacDonalds and a look round the we could go to the museum as well , that 's free |
| 17 | Something with which we could go to the customer and say , ‘ This is the sort of thing it is now possible to do . |
| 18 | Mr Clerides , who beat incumbent George Vassiliou with a narrow majority of 1,998 votes in Sunday 's election , said that before he could go to the peace talks in New York he needed to consult with the Cypriot and Greek political leadership . |
| 19 | He also showed his inexperience by asking Gerry Gomez , his captain , if he could be substituted so that he could go to the airport to meet his sister . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , with you gone I could go to the DHSS , could n't I ? |
| 21 | My right hon. Friend the Minister for Overseas Development is trying to arrange a donors conference to bring further help , but , as my hon. Friend would agree , the best relief of human rights would be if the Iraqis accepted resolutions 706 and 712 and began to sell oil , the proceeds of which could go to the relief of poverty as well as the compensation of those whom they have victimised . |
| 22 | AN AZERI who hijacked a Russian plane so he could go to the United States to work was held on charges of air piracy by a Swedish court yesterday after giving himself up . |
| 23 | Do you think we could go to the villa now ? ’ |
| 24 | All went well until 1985 , when museum purchase grants were frozen at the level at which they have remained , the reasoning being that for anything really important , they could go to the NHMF . |
| 25 | Think , we could go to the Louvre , and I could practise my French — Miranda 's French is smashing — you heard her talk to that old stick-in-the-mud at lunch , and we could visit Versailles … |
| 26 | ‘ I — uh — thought we could go to the beach or something , ’ he offered . |
| 27 | They almost certainly could go to the services of any Free Church and not be insulted . |
| 28 | ‘ We could go to the theatre or out to a restaurant or something . ’ |
| 29 | Shelley went outside to the jeep , parked close by in the blazing sun , but turned as Miguel followed her and suggested , ‘ Maybe I could go to the village alone ? |
| 30 | oh , I used to say when , if we were living in England now , we could go Scotland for the weekend , we could go to the Lake District , we could go to the Cheddar Gorges , we do nowt . |