Example sentences of "go [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ MPs do n't seem to go for the very expensive end of the Indian restaurant market , ’ says Peter Grove . |
| 2 | Mr Makepeace , who dreaded public places where he might meet the boys of Burleigh , sat longer than any , pretending to go through the disgracefully scrappy mathematics homework that his classes saw fit to throw his way . |
| 3 | Erm , my Lord I do n't think it 's necessary to go through the rather complicated headland potentially gives you though I can see it from the er . |
| 4 | Why is it everyone goes for the most difficult car parking spot ? |
| 5 | and after a time you know you say ha and you just because the lawyer for the other side always goes for the very worst scenario |
| 6 | Her final wish goes against the most fundamental principle of Conservative policy for more than a decade and one which she once fervently supported — taxes must rise . |
| 7 | Now the tobacco industry is going for the slightly more subtle form of advertising which is sponsorship . |
| 8 | Furthermore , any bias in regard to fossil collectors going for the more interesting and rare predators would actually slant the bias in favour of ectothermy , rather than endothermy . |
| 9 | Though ‘ LSI ’ bombed with them , the college crowd already seem to be going for the more obviously British routines of ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’ . |
| 10 | Orton wrote him letters , both serious and humorous , going into the most intimate details of his sexual encounters . |
| 11 | He 's going into the actually . |
| 12 | Going from the ridiculously sublime to the sublimely ridiculous , another visionary — this time very much of our present day and very well known indeed — shows up this month on Greene St. He is , of course , Saul Steinberg , Horace of the high-heeled , poet of the pot-holed urban scene , cicerone to the foibles of the national consciousness . |
| 13 | However , just as at a certain place on the earth 's surface we can still call ‘ down' ’ the direction towards the centre of the earth , so a living organism that finds itself in such a world at a certain period of time can define the ‘ direction ’ of time as going from the less probable state to the more probable ( the former will be the ‘ Past' ’ and the latter the ‘ Future' ’ ) and by virtue of the definition he will find that his own small region , isolated from the rest of the universe , is ‘ initially' ’ always in an improbable state . |
| 14 | Well it 's going to the not me . |
| 15 | A little idiosyncratic , I think , my appearance — but without going to the slightly absurd lengths of ginger hair and freckles . |
| 16 | Are you going to the tonight ? |
| 17 | But there will be three trains a week instead of 14 , all going by the less attractive and evocative northern route and not over the historic line of the Canadian Pacific Railway . |
| 18 | It 's a good sport for women to play in and there 's lots of developments going on in the sport and we would like to go into the under sixteens and the under twelves . |
| 19 | Or it goes into the very cheap coffees here and erm and no er what do you call it , Kwik Save sell some coffee and chicory mixture , which is forty four pence for a jar . |
| 20 | And the seven days at the low dose and then I 'd like you to go onto the slightly higher dose , which is still a low dose , |
| 21 | Lord May cast a different slant on the word early in the new century when he called for a ‘ Hooligan Conference ’ , later to go under the more dignified title of the Twentieth Century League . |
| 22 | And in the big cities — to go from the relatively sensitive and ‘ socially conscious ’ reports of the District Leader of Augsburg-Stadt — the old attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries gained new strength in wartime conditions ; the extravagance of Party buildings was set alongside the slums in which it was said the great mass of the population still had to live ; and ‘ especially unfavourable note is taken of the feudal life and dwelling of leaders of Party and State ’ . |
| 23 | In the absence of both the ‘ political will ’ and the social forces which would have been required to go beyond the merely ‘ indicative ’ and technocratic attempt to alleviate the balance of payments constraint , the Wilson government used the only effective levers at its disposal to maintain the external balance : the old standby of fiscal deflation ; incomes policy , to hold down both labour costs of British firms and consumer spending on imports ; and then eventually devaluation of the currency which , although it did not abolish the trade constraint , at least temporarily pre-empted speculative pressure on the pound and brought a period of increased price competitiveness . |
| 24 | But if we are to understand it , and , particularly , if we are to distinguish within it between cynical accommodation and genuine playfulness , we are going to have to go beyond the embarrassingly inappropriate assumption that it has something to do with ‘ Brechtian ’ distanciation or ‘ modernist ’ self-reflexiveness . |
| 25 | He asked to go to the most demanding area and ended up in Smallhealth and Sparkbrook with a case load of up to 60 children . |
| 26 | She finally agreed to go to the most expensive Chinese restaurant in town with him . |
| 27 | For the proper ‘ return ’ it seemed essential to go to the earliest known sources . |
| 28 | You 'll be pleased to know dad , that I am going to go to the tomorrow night . |
| 29 | Oh it was glorious I made a note to myself actually , that I 'm only going to go out once a week for a proper shop , from a list , in the solar and the rest of the time I 'm going to go to the quite expensive little Robber 's Roe , round the corner from me . |
| 30 | NME ca n't claim to be the first off the blocks with coverage of this splenetic musical bastard — that honour has to go to the now sadly defunct Sounds . |