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 . |