Example sentences of "[verb] he go [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I urge him to go to the railway stations each weekend and to get the newspapers that are handed out free of charge .
2 It wants him to go beyond the landscaping of degraded industrial sites as a means of attracting new investment , to embrace the concept of ‘ sustainable development ’ which was backed by the UK government at the recent Earth Summit .
3 Mrs Thatcher stopped him going into the ERM , and Treasury forecasters failed to spot the recession .
4 Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it .
5 ‘ If you got as far as Spargo 's you must have seen him go under the scaffolding . ’
6 and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks
7 ‘ I figure he went over the fence here , ’ said Prentice when we were outside in the rain once more .
8 This allowed him to go on the offensive , including on issues that Dr Cunningham devoutly wished would evaporate , like that cause célèbre .
9 You watch him going down the street to the harbour .
10 He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) .
11 I waited till I heard him go into the bathroom , grabbed all my gear and tiptoed out of the house .
12 ‘ I remember him going about the village , collecting the details , the birth certificates and things .
13 Of course , we 'll have to let him go in the morning . ’
14 Everybody watched the other two , I ask him you know he went into the bus ?
15 That way if one of the midfield does do themselves a mischief Rocky will have had some games at least ( I 'd rest Strachan personally to keep him going for the League campaign — which IMO is our best chnace of a European place [ we 're too unlucky in the cups ] ) .
16 It only added to the team Renault-Williams ' total embarrassment at carelessly letting him go at the peak of his box office appeal and pulling power .
17 He watched him go to the bar and get a glass of wine , looked away , aware that he was approaching .
18 ‘ Aye , where else ? ’ she said as she , too , rose from the settle and returned to the couch , from where she watched him go to the box that was standing on the end of the sideboard , and from it take a piece of silver , then button his coat across his broad chest , take his cap from his pocket and , having put it on at an angle , salute her , saying , ‘ Your servant , madam . ’
19 The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) .
20 No employer will willingly train a craftsman only to see him go down the road to work for another employer who has invested nothing in training .
21 They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) .
22 ‘ You do n't want him to go into the theatre with you ?
23 I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell .
24 Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me
25 They kept him going through the night but his editorial judgment was rarely at fault .
26 She saw him go to the bar and order a tray of Cokes and crisps for the children , and by the time he came back to her table carrying two mugs of coffee she had composed herself a little .
27 I saw him go through the gate into the woods … ’
28 I saw him go into the room where the telephone is . ’
29 Fernie saw him going into the house .
30 So where do you think he went for the winter ?
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