Example sentences of "[noun prp] go [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the story Melric goes off on a quest to various fellow magicians to seek help . |
| 2 | FOLLOWING THE FIRST day of The Subject Was Roses rehearsals , Dustin went over to a girlfriend 's apartment for dinner brimming with enthusiasm and confidence . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw Liza Carrow , ’ Eleanor went on in a matter-of-fact way . |
| 4 | Oh , I can read the signs as well as anyone , ’ Dora went on in a sudden surge of indignation as Melissa 's eyebrows lifted . |
| 5 | John King makes a late shuffle after Neil McNab goes down with a stomach upset . |
| 6 | In order to challenge this complex of interlocking polarities , Amalgamemnon goes back to a time when the two domains , though distinct , were not yet differentiated by separate modes of narrative , back to Herodotus , the first prose artist and ‘ the father of fibstory ’ ( 22,113 ) . |
| 7 | Then , in Madras , England went in with a more balanced attack of three seamers and three spinners , including Graeme Hick . |
| 8 | Rovers were forced into a pre-match reshuffle as Neil McNab went down with a stomach bug . |
| 9 | Kim Barnes went along for a preview . |
| 10 | ‘ About 2 o'clock , when within about 4 miles of Green Island , for which we were tacking , Mr. Gould went off in a boat with the hope of reaching it before us , and of finding some penguin 's eggs which he is much in want off [ sic ] . |
| 11 | M. Dupont went on in a calm , deliberate voice : ‘ My only question concerning Mr Lewis is this . |
| 12 | " Stephen went off with a carrier-bag , dear . " |
| 13 | His father , however , preferred that Farrar went in for a professional career , and Farrar was articled to a firm of architects and surveyors in Northampton , becoming a Fellow of the Geographical Society . |
| 14 | The Boozebuster went off without a hitch . |
| 15 | Swindon 's right-back Hockaday went off with a fractured cheekbone just before half-time . |
| 16 | David Kennedy , prosecuting , said Kevin Fripp went out with a relative of the spinster , from whom he learned of the cash . |
| 17 | The following morning , Connor went out for a stroll before breakfast . |
| 18 | Morrell went on for a comfortable victory over three seconds clear of the defending champion , Mark Kirk , of Ballymena . |
| 19 | No summer Sunday goes by without a game . |
| 20 | Any member of my profession ( the second oldest ) will tell you that not a Sunday goes by without a request for you to present your battered old body at a similarly battered venue for the benefit of Dyslexic Seals , Anorexic Pastry Chefs or Friends of the Ozone Layer . |
| 21 | Tor goes off to a cottage up the hill from the bay and comes back disconsolate , having been told to ‘ piss off ’ by the occupants who were robbed last week and are not in any mood to offer the traditional Norwegian hospitality to a motley collection of bedraggled canoeists . |
| 22 | Sunday went by in a haze , long and grey and unreal . |
| 23 | When Jinny went over with a bowl of water to wash her udder , she stirred restlessly , flicking her tail . |
| 24 | Owen went off in a huff and read the papers . |
| 25 | The wind caught it and it bounced awkwardly for the St Aloysius defence and Roy Montgomery went in for a try under the posts which was converted by Ross Houghton . |
| 26 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 27 | After his sexual initiation by a barmaid in an outback pub , while his father was drinking downstairs ( at an age which would seem to be about twelve and a half — but Greg felt the incident had been brought forward significantly , from a feeling that the narrative pace of the opening pages was already flagging ) , Gerald Seymour-Strachey went on to a variety of girls ( occasionally called ‘ girlies ’ ) and later women . |
| 28 | Nevil Sanderson going out with a female Tory , ye Gods and little fishes ! ’ |
| 29 | Histon keeper David Norman went off with a back injury but Newmarket did not give his replacement , ex-Newmarket defender Dick Hall , too many problems after the break . |
| 30 | Latus has some experience in the No 9 shirt , including the match at Stockton in December , when he made the switch after Kenyon went off with a dislocated shoulder . |