Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [conj] go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had barely finished congratulating ourselves and going round with the good news when Mrs Maddock 's little boy from the post office ran to tell us it had been torn down . |
| 2 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 3 | So he crossed himself and went away . |
| 4 | The boys burst out laughing at her remark , then Yanto controlled himself and went on . |
| 5 | Then he coughed a little as if he had embarrassed himself and went on , returning to his normal , slightly facetious manner , ‘ Though not one Mrs Hobbs cared for , I 'm afraid . |
| 6 | As he passed Jenny 's door he paused momentarily , but shook his head at himself and went on down the stairs . |
| 7 | Jehan uncoiled himself and went over . |
| 8 | After an hour of this , the pike left it alone and when it had done so for the fifth time , El-ahrairah swam across himself and went home . |
| 9 | Sullivan opened the door himself and went in alone . |
| 10 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 11 | She danced several dances with John , who then excused himself and went off to talk business with Rodet . |
| 12 | He tried to compose himself and go over in his mind the details of what had taken place almost a month before . |
| 13 | On every channel earnest-looking men with maps and pointers , looking like war-gamers in some fiendish Pentagon basement , demonstrate — predict , even — the inch-by-inch path that the storm is taking , noting that it usually passes off to the north , but may perhaps curve back upon itself and go in for a second strike . |
| 14 | Last week Daph kept up an argument with herself that went on for most of the day . |
| 15 | It was a neat line to end on and she used it to excuse herself and go upstream to wash , using the chilly water to freeze her blood and perhaps put a coat of ice about her heart . |
| 16 | After lunch , she hurriedly excused herself and went upstairs , feeling demented . |
| 17 | On October 16 , 1988 , after expiry of the 72-period , the patient discharged herself and went home . |
| 18 | At ten o'clock , overcome by weariness , she excused herself and went home . |
| 19 | But after an hour Leonora grew bored and irritable with herself and went off to have a bath . |
| 20 | Not wishing to find myself involved in contention , I ex-cused myself and went upstairs to bed before the coffee ritual was completed . |
| 21 | I stirred myself and went upstairs , and crawled under the duvet to wait for him . |
| 22 | Then I telephoned myself and went back to see her again . |
| 23 | I excused myself and went back to my room , not feeling very reassured . |
| 24 | ‘ Disloyal to letter boxes , ’ I said to myself and went down the passage where I could laugh without being heard . |
| 25 | I had to excuse myself and go out of the room , or I would have collapsed laughing at the doctor 's reaction . |
| 26 | I do n't want to ring the bell on myself and go back into the classroom just yet . ’ |
| 27 | If you 'd been with me , I might have stiffened myself and gone on with it . |
| 28 | How can it help me do my job ? point of view the reason is that it can help you do your job is very simply that to involve members of the public er local councils , local authorities , decision makers and allows the outcome to , to erm entertain them and to erm hope for and communicate what it is they 'll come erm in a non-threatening , non-selling , non-hard sell environment where they can come along , they can enjoy themselves and go away and form their own opinions without somebody over the head with what they 're try to sa trying to do erm |
| 29 | Could n't they reconstruct themselves and go back to being pigs ? |
| 30 | Could n't they unreconstruct themselves and go back to being pigs ? |