Example sentences of "go [prep] a certain [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 2 | To be honest both are going to a certain type of market |
| 3 | You can also set up options to go via a certain station . |
| 4 | There are many different definitions of leadership , but they do seem to have certain features in common and a useful general definition is that given by Kossen : ‘ Leadership is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to go in a certain direction . ’ |
| 5 | If we return to the definition of leadership as the ability to influence others to go in a certain direction then this ability may be required at many different levels within the organisation . |
| 6 | We can expand , therefore , Kossen 's original definition so that our definition of leadership is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to go in a certain direction within a given context . |
| 7 | We have discussed the notion that leaders will influence others to go in a certain direction . |
| 8 | We used to go to a certain bar and sit at our favourite table , where we would be joined by a pair of bedizened harridans with dyed orange hair and chipped scarlet fingernails . |
| 9 | He was to go to a certain address on a certain day — the following day — at a certain hour . |
| 10 | Even my wife , enlightened , but energetically gregarious , upon my expressing my desire not to go to a certain gathering would say , ‘ Normal people like parties , they want to go . ’ |
| 11 | Erm , you 've got to go over a certain size to get a portion of the fee of paid |
| 12 | What influences them inside their heads to actually go for a certain destination . |
| 13 | ‘ We do go for a certain amount of fragility . |
| 14 | Well I thought you did n't wan na go below a certain amount . |
| 15 | It went with a certain complacency . |
| 16 | When I did a lot of my chord studying I used a Gibson 175 , and a cello guitar will obviously make your music go in a certain direction . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew she went to a certain museum but I did n't know where else she went , nor any of her sources , nor what she paid for things . |
| 18 | On the next afternoon , as Paul was free , they went to a certain arcade to buy the ring , with Ellen following as always . |
| 19 | The finance director of one of the companies says he believes that the productivity increases attributable to IT are coming to an end : ‘ Auditors are getting more productive — but it can only go to a certain level . ’ |
| 20 | To extend the use of numeric pagers , each number can indicate a pre-determined action , for example that the employee should go to a certain area or undertake a particular task . |
| 21 | He said that if the SS took them away , would I go to a certain street in Berlin , to a certain family and tell them . |
| 22 | You go to a certain pub ‘ for the vibe ’ ; you do n't go to another pub because you 're ‘ vibed out ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ If they want to go at a certain pace and not become a Top Five singles band you have to respect them for it . |
| 24 | It had been discovered in the eighteenth century that light does not travel instantaneously from source to observer ; rather , it goes at a certain speed , about 186,000 miles ( 300,000 kilometers ) a second . |