Example sentences of "go [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
| 2 | This started the defendant to go off the rails . ’ |
| 3 | Before starting the long retreat we waited till dark for the sun to go off the slopes , for the stones and avalanche slopes to re-freeze , and possibly because the sight was too horrible to contemplate . |
| 4 | What 's , how , how 're you going to go about the problems , sort of talk through the stages . |
| 5 | ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ? |
| 6 | Equally , there 's no need to go for a savings scheme which gives you a cheque book if you 'll never use it . |
| 7 | Not only had we increased our self-awareness , but we felt content , happy with ourselves and we 'd also received the encouragement to go for the things we want — to seize the day . |
| 8 | The soundtrack is industrial dance , the punters the kind of alternative/college crowd who presumably are about to go for The Shamen in a big way . |
| 9 | Mortimer was also tempted to go for the sentries , but also recognized the folly of such a move . |
| 10 | It is very tempting , as has been pointed out in the discussion on choosing an agency , to go for the ideas and ignore the reasons for them . |
| 11 | And how did you know to go for the dolls ' bed ? ’ |
| 12 | If the racket came right I felt it gave him the confidence to go for the shots . |
| 13 | I decided to go for the pills first , but after three months I was still in agony so I went for the laser operation . |
| 14 | On a slow day , Quigley just goes through the newspapers and rambles on about whatever comes into his brain . |
| 15 | Without it there could be a free for all and if abolition goes through the employers may well find themselves having to resort to some form of cooperative or wages club in its place . |
| 16 | Oxygen from the air goes through the LUNGS into the blood . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The cloud is like a magnet so the water goes through the cracks and goes up . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So nothing goes through the docks , the income 's still there and it 's getting bigger . |
| 21 | He belongs to a paper society which goes through the motions of life , in the air , notionally . |
| 22 | In the novel he stays polarized , but without bulk and in a tragic sense without force ; he goes through the motions ( ‘ the habits of a decent man ’ and so forth ) while his great-sinner infamies are unloaded upon a past which he can not even renounce . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I wondered whether it was because neither of them had stirred herself to go through the contortions attendant upon attracting men , but it was n't that . |
| 26 | Well I I shall leave you to go through the questions for a few minutes . |
| 27 | Q Will their separation have to go through the courts ? |
| 28 | Erm , and you know , let's face it , I did n't have to go through the circumstances that they went through in the war , and there therefore , who who am I to judge |
| 29 | ‘ Look , Micky , ’ said Peter Hickton , ‘ would it help if we were to go through the lines again this evening , just the two of us ? ’ |
| 30 | It occurred to her that it might be wise to go through the pockets ; her father 's garment yielded an old penny and a broken pipe . |