Example sentences of "he go [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would n't say that ; he 's a man with unusual views on a lot of things but he 's no fool ; he goes round lecturing to Old Cornwall Societies , Women 's Institutes and that sort of thing . ’ |
| 2 | He goes round saying wicked , it 's his favourite word . |
| 3 | He goes round banging on the barrels . ) |
| 4 | An enchanting picture book by Ian Beck , The Teddy Robber , £6.95 is a wonderfully funny story of a giant who 's lost his teddy bear so he goes around stealing other teddies from wherever he can . |
| 5 | I suppose he goes around measuring skulls and that kind of thing . ’ |
| 6 | And he goes on gazing out of the window . |
| 7 | Then , as he goes on listening for a few weeks , looking carefully at ever-new pictures of different cases , a tentative understanding will dawn on him ; he will gradually forget about the ribs and begin to see the lungs . |
| 8 | So he goes on pushing deadlines , working all-nighters , rewriting , calling back , quite apart from the copious travelling and general fretting that is a Sunday writer 's regular burden . |
| 9 | Jean-Paul thinks the French brought prosperity to a poor country , and he goes on believing it because he takes care never to set foot outside the European quarter . |
| 10 | Everybody that comes in — you can imagine the reaction — and you ask him not to do it and his language is appalling , and he goes on doing it . |
| 11 | Notts ' new cricket manager Mike Hendrick thrust the 22-year-old seamer into the senior squad while Andy Pick nursed a shoulder injury , and claimed : ‘ The lad has got a chance of making it if he goes on working and improving . |
| 12 | The man himself is more than happy to spill the beans about how he goes about capturing a memorable guitar sound on tape … |
| 13 | Travel Trade Manager Bill Cameron tells Welcome how he goes about promoting Historic Scotland 's heritage sites at home and aboard . |
| 14 | The social and political implications of Gandhi 's quest for Truth will also be dealt with in later chapters and for the moment we shall confine ourselves to such questions as how he goes about acquiring glimpses of absolute Truth and how he knows that it is absolute Truth he has actually caught a glimpse of . |
| 15 | Adonis , cold and puritanical , rejects the lustful invitations of Venus , the supreme goddess , He goes off hunting , and as a punishment for his presumptuous chastity , is killed by a boar . |
| 16 | He goes there talking about paper sovereignty , when the country 's real sovereignty is increasingly dependent on the actions of our European Community partners . |
| 17 | See horse 's feet 's picked out properly before he goes out exercising and when he comes in exercise . |
| 18 | He 's the one who gets the wages for it while I have n't a lira to myself not even to buy a pair of stockings , stuck here in this gloomy hole day after day — and he goes out working , he goes out to work when according to the contract he 's not allowed , I should be allowed but not him . |
| 19 | he comes home at , at nine o'clock and he , he does n't have a thing to eat and he goes out playing squash , then he 's not eating his main meal till eleven o'clock at night . |
| 20 | He 's a labourer , but then he goes out sweeping chimneys . |
| 21 | A God for Jesus of Nazareth , with the Holy Spirit and how he went around doing deed and healing all around him power of the devil , because God was with him . |
| 22 | He was delivered of an ultimatum and he accepted it with a smile and good grace , although he went away cursing the interference and audacity of Fred 's young wife . |
| 23 | I sat actually sitting talking and drinking and the er in the house , that 's where her wedding dress was and the chauffeur sitting beside and I think he went away laughing . |
| 24 | apparently he went , he went round telling everybody erm he was doing a live exercise and he got singed or something but this , this erm , its Browndown on the South Coast and it was , it was a Christ it was a Christmas piss up , regiment Christmas piss up and anything goes , as long as you do n't physically hurt somebody , although that has been known to happen and its not criminal anything goes right , but honestly the worse you do to somebody the worse they do back to you , and people are getting tied bollock naked up the flag poles , dumped in bins , erm , tied in their beds , put out in the middle of the parade ground , fucking all sorts of things you know , like what we can do , the most common thing is nicking , you know the old walking pay slips they 've got |
| 25 | Showing my ignorance , and then apparently my grandfather 's so into him , that he went round trying to find this book of his , his work , |
| 26 | Knowing the others were depending on him , Luke kept his nerves to himself as he went round checking girths and bandages . |
| 27 | He went round carrying out the usual checks , asking the usual questions . |
| 28 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 29 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 30 | He went round chivvying . |