Example sentences of "to go [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This offence also carries a maximum of life imprisonment and since lack of consent need not be proved , the girl will not be required to go through the ordeal of giving evidence on the matter . |
| 2 | Nor do you have to go through the formality of claiming relief on it . |
| 3 | It means that , depending on the context , I can communicate something subtly different from what I intended before without us first having to go through the rigmarole of defining new terminology to extend the language . |
| 4 | Apparently they have had people calling in saying , ‘ please could I speak to Sue ’ , and that could be anybody , and then the switchboard has to go through the rigmarole of saying , ‘ what 's it all about , do you know where the person works , can you give me a bit more information ’ , and it takes up a lot more of their time , so please , if you 're leaving a message for somebody to call you back , leave your full name and your extension number . |
| 5 | Peter had only just begun to go through the night without demanding a feed . |
| 6 | He 'd had another sleepless night and ahead lay customs , who could n't be expected to be exactly pro-British , and because of post and telephone strikes in Argentina , he had n't been able to confirm the flight with Alejandro , so they 'd have to go through the hassle of hiring a car to drive the 330 kilometres out to his estancia . |
| 7 | GCCS made particularly good progress breaking the Japanese naval attaché cipher traffic , both in London and elsewhere in Europe , since many foreign cable companies routed their signals through repeater stations in places like Malta where GCCS could acquire all interesting traffic without having to go through the charade of obtaining a warrant . |
| 8 | If you are close , you can appreciate the other 's character without having to go through the anxiety of behaving that way yourself . |
| 9 | ‘ If you 'd done your legal duty , my lad , we would n't have had to go through the bother of pulling you off the street , ’ said Malpass with a sickly smile . |
| 10 | As Balfour himself said the following year , ‘ in Palestine we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country . ’ |
| 11 | Similarly , parents of children who have been victims of sexual offences may not want their child to be interrogated and to go through the trauma of reliving the experience in court . |
| 12 | We used to go through the ritual of taking people off beta blockers , performing exercise tests , returning them to beta blockade and repeating the test . |
| 13 | She had to go through the ritual of pleading for information while he pretended reluctance , but then he told her what appeared to be everything . |
| 14 | By and large , the war passed us by in Baldersdale , although we had to go through the business of putting black-out curtains at all the windows , even though all the light we had was from oil lamps . |
| 15 | As soon as the redundancies were announced , just over half of those who retired before the pension age decided that they did not want to go through the process of trying to find work . |
| 16 | Thus a hard-worked journalist could receive a press release by fax , use FAXgrabber to convert the faxed release to text , and then place it into his story without having to go through the process of re-typing much of the information . |
| 17 | He accepts that every Special Constable has to go through the process of gaining the confidence of his regular colleagues . |
| 18 | They urged that if the loyalist political parties were to go into the convention without having in reserve the weapon of the general strike , they would be as naked and helpless as Aneurin Bevan , the post-war foreign secretary , had said Britain would be in international councils if she were unilaterally to discard her nuclear weapons . |
| 19 | Now we either are going in the direction this morning , or rather I think you 're being pressed to go in the direction of seeking to identify in due course , what is the preferred general location , and this undoubtedly is something you can hang your hat on . |
| 20 | It would be a waste of time actually to go to the trouble of filling the space itself with blanks . |
| 21 | The high standards aimed at in such a sifting process are important if we want teachers to go to the trouble of organizing the use of our materials in their teaching . |
| 22 | From this point onwards it was entirely unnecessary for a testator to go to the trouble of writing a general damnatio in his will . |
| 23 | Interesting that Bill 's going to go to the trouble of taking out windows putting in |
| 24 | My own guess is that there was no significant demand for free condoms ; nobody is going to go to the trouble of collecting free condoms who would not be prepared to buy them for himself . |
| 25 | Since he wanted to delay the ceremony , but did n't want to go to the trouble of desecrating any graves , he only had one option . |
| 26 | It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly . |
| 27 | We did n't have many chips , but that was because my mother did n't want to go to the bother of making them , nor did she like the mess that boiling , spluttering fat can make . |
| 28 | I had been planning to go to the Nurburgring for testing the day after the race , but I was told to return to the factory and stop the new car I was building . |
| 29 | If you do n't want to go to the expense of buying them , check out the travel section at your local library . |
| 30 | The two councils must now decide whether to go to the expense of appealling through the courts . |