Example sentences of "go [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sang the same song for three-quarters of an hour , he 'd go sit on the drum riser , and come back to the mic and sing a verse , and then sit and stare into space and then come back again and again . |
| 2 | ‘ There is no port at Kinghorn but there are a number of fishing villages and coves along the coast where Queen Yolande would go to wait for the ship . |
| 3 | The case would go to appeal on the issue of whether West German law could apply to events which occurred in the former East German state . |
| 4 | no one would go singing to the soldiers . |
| 5 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 6 | ‘ You must n't go wandering around the house , you know . |
| 7 | ‘ People with ladylike reserve generally do n't go swimming in the buff in public places , but — ’ |
| 8 | If it was a warm , sunny day we would pack all our belongings into the caravan and then we would head to the beach or we would go swimming in the pool on the park . |
| 9 | You can also go rafting on the River Inn . |
| 10 | I can not understand why , after arriving at Kinghorn , he refused to wait up for his royal master and did not go looking for the King . |
| 11 | ‘ I am sure Marx did not recognize the existence of ghosts , ’ said Bernard , ‘ but please do n't go looking for the reference ; not now ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You did n't go clambering over the cliffs , did you ? ’ |
| 13 | But in Darlington there is a paucity of green space within the town centre where cooped-up employees can go to bask in the sun , or where shoppers can rest a few minutes . |
| 14 | ‘ Now do n't go flying off the handle . ’ |
| 15 | He 'll go drifting off the edge into another universe and will never be able to get back . ’ |
| 16 | He lost his job and did not go begging to the DSS and when he earned a massive salary he paid massive taxes , he reasons . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't go begging to the DSS , ’ said Mr Deaves , 39 . |
| 18 | As he passed through the doorway , he heard his bus go grinding by the church and away up the hill . |
| 19 | Ca n't exactly go running to the Führer . ’ |
| 20 | He certainly wo n't go running to the Führer . ’ |
| 21 | While some infants may go uncomplaining through the night without feeding by the age of two months they will not have spent the whole time asleep . |
| 22 | I revived as I felt myself go hurtling through the air and crashed down on to the wooden planks of the scaffold . |
| 23 | But he came ra racing out the office after her when he heard car go roaring past the office . |
| 24 | He had nagged her about why they did not go to live at the School , instead of letting all those other people live there , and at last she told him why . |
| 25 | I think I might go to live in the country , in the 1980s . |
| 26 | the other one 's gon na go rolling down the stairs |
| 27 | For one thing , she had never worn a strapless dress before , and although the bodice was tight-fitting and well supported she could n't rid herself of the fear that the dress would go slithering to the floor at some critical moment , leaving her almost naked , like in a bad dream . |
| 28 | After that , Emmie tried hard to keep the big kitchen clean ; Marjorie could hardly go poking round the rest of the house to see what it looked like . |
| 29 | But Tom and she would go skiing at the end of the month . |
| 30 | ‘ But I 'll never go roaming in the gloaming again , ’ he said . |