Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] go [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 2 | Eventually the dinner broke up and Claud , Roger Hollis and I went off for a pub-crawl which after sundry indecorous adventures ended up at the Hypocrites where another blind was going on . |
| 3 | Mm , I thought I 'd get it , I really did think I 'd get it and I went down with a bump when I did n't |
| 4 | Having agreed that this was a good idea , David and I went down to a pub called The Three Tuns , which is in Beckenham High Street . |
| 5 | Something hit me on the back of the head , here , and I went out like a light . |
| 6 | ‘ I had a cartilage operation three and a half years ago , and I went in for a tackle just before Christmas and damaged it again . |
| 7 | ‘ Shift the cattle , work the horses , stick and ball , come back for lunch , an hour 's siesta , and you go out like a light I can tell you , then we play chukkas in the afternoon . |
| 8 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 9 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |
| 10 | hi er he 's got to go , he 's got his annual medical , it 's a very high-powered erm thing in Dundee on Tuesday , so Anne said that she would like to come up with him , potter about Dundee while he 's having his medical then they will come here on Tuesday evening , or late Tuesday afternoon , and we go out for a meal , and then of course , she 'll be with me all day on Thursday because he goes back up to Dundee to his managers ' meeting , you see . |
| 11 | I pulled up in a gateway , Sam jumped out and we went through into a field ; and as the beagle scampered over the glittering turf I stood in the warm sunshine amid the melting frost and looked back at the dark damp blanket which blotted out the low country but left this jewelled world above it . |
| 12 | I met a friend at the college library and we went out for a coffee . |
| 13 | Cos Rita swears she 's been , I mean I was out with her once and we went in for a coffee and we finished , right , and we 're ready to go and I nearly said to her I hate it after you 've finished and Jackie lights up and then I have to sit there while she has a fag |
| 14 | ‘ We were staying in a hotel in Maidstone and we went back for a meal , then later , about tennish , we sneaked back to see if there was anything going down . |
| 15 | He collided with the Guardsmen , and they went down in a tangle . |
| 16 | And they go down at a bit at a time or it 'll go all the way down . |
| 17 | Originally my son had it and he went over to a printer . |
| 18 | Adam paid the man and he went off on a bicycle , still wearing the knotted handkerchief on his head . |
| 19 | I got my first into the sea close off Sliema and the second was on the way out some miles further out and he went in without a top wing . |
| 20 | I hit the gunman right between the windows of his soul and he went down with a lot of sparks and technoflash that I for one was n't expecting . |
| 21 | His condition is fine and he went out for a breath of fresh air . |
| 22 | It was about ninety pounds and he went out on a limb for it , too . |
| 23 | We put a match to ours and it goes up with a rocket-like roar , heating the yurt in a flash . |
| 24 | And it goes out in a blaze of colour — a spectacular firework display which starts at 6.45pm and goes on into the night . |
| 25 | The last I saw of it was the bow sticking out of the water as the ship broke its back , and it went up in a V-shape , a Victory sign if you like , but we knew there were two men on board , one of whom I knew as a mess-mate . ’ |
| 26 | I took the hot , spicy drink and it went down like a stream of molten lava . |
| 27 | But someone discovered in China that you could put them together and it went off with a bang . |
| 28 | But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it . |
| 29 | Either it was the brandy or it was the heat , but she went out like a light . |
| 30 | But she went down like a sack of spuds and cracked her head open . |