Example sentences of "go [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Charles Peace , a Victorian villain , once commented that the dangerous constable was the one who ‘ neglects his duty to go courting the servant , or nips up the entry to get a surreptitious drink .
2 You had to go a-shoeing the horse as best you could .
3 Well , th yes , well that 's it , they are going facing the station and it used to be so much prettier than it is now .
4 attracting nobody , she 's going scratching the eyes like you sounded .
5 I do n't think this is the moment to go slamming the door ’ .
6 and while Martin Dugard goes chasing the speedway title in Austria … over in Hungary …
7 Do n't go eating the yew tree , either . "
8 You went walking the dogs ?
9 Do n't go slanging the recruiter right .
10 Next day while the young lord went hunting the fox kept watch .
11 When the bell went sounding the end of the day we packed up and put our chairs on the desk .
12 Never having foreseen James would suddenly develop a sense of extra-office responsibility for me , I had rather let myself go describing the flat of a rich friend which allayed James 's earlier mild concern about where I was living .
13 Paul : I 'm on Planet Jacinta and the vibes have gone fishing the dog ate my copy sir
14 After all , Dickens had had the decency to keep it to himself , not go telling the world about it .
15 The boy searched around the area but the man , or whatever had been a human , had gone leaving the boy bewildered and confused .
16 Spencer was only caught after his victim went scouring the streets of the city looking for him and the other attackers .
17 Of Condition In If it rains today I sha n't go shopping the clause if it rains today qualifies sha n't go .
18 Make a list of what essential food you will need for the first day in your new home and go shopping the day before you move .
19 So let's catch up with all the action as we go spinning the globe .
20 maybe it was the battle of the Somme , I do n't remember , but I remember I had to go carrying the basket , and mother would go and call on these poor people who had lost their their families .
21 FRINGE BENEFITS Colin Ward expects open-air readers to go Beating the Bounds
22 I 'm not a churchgoer and I 've no call to go visiting the Rectory .
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