Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [pron] go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time that he had been inside the Citadel he went home as soon as his day 's work was finished and scrubbed his body from toe to scalp . |
| 2 | When they heard the car they went carefully downstairs , and her mother settled her in while her father held the door and Alan put her bag in the boot . |
| 3 | Within a foot of the Wheel he went momentarily ahead , then knocked the motor out . |
| 4 | All my bloody furniture 's gone from the living I went upstairs the lot 's gone ! |
| 5 | Sometimes the Constitution limits the executive or subordinate local bodies ; sometimes it limits the legislature also , but only so far as amendment of the Constitution itself is concerned ; and sometimes it imposes restrictions upon the legislature which go far beyond this point and forbid it to make laws upon certain subjects or in a certain way or with certain effects . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , it 's not the Angel who went away ! ’ |
| 7 | After the dissolution he went overseas to serve as a volunteer in the Dutch army . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the Nazgûl himself goes even more than usual beyond the boundaries of even ‘ romantic ’ humanity : he looks like a man , and carries a sword , but it is a ‘ pale ’ or insubstantial one ; he bursts the Gate not only by Grond but by a projection of fear and dread , ‘ words of power and terror to rend both heart and stone ’ , which work like ‘ searing lightning ’ . |
| 9 | In 1915 at Gallipoli Doughty-Wylie won a posthumous VC : at a critical moment in the landing he went ashore from the River Clyde , rallied the remnants of a battalion of the Hampshires , captured the heights above the beach , and there he was killed . |
| 10 | Early in the evening she went home to get her brown envelope . |
| 11 | The door of the apartment was ajar and , when nobody answered the buzzer I went inside . |
| 12 | All over the place we went really , not just in , all round and er farther afield as well if they were short of private nurses . |
| 13 | as if that were an omen , the race itself went just as badly and after nine laps Jackie had to come in to change a deflating tyre . |
| 14 | They granted the second subsidy only on condition that the king himself went abroad to try to bring an end to the war . |
| 15 | Now some of these Asian ladies , I feel sorry for them , they are strangers , they do n't know much about industrial life , they have led a very sheltered life , you know , and when they go to the toilet they go together . |
| 16 | The person who goes there and basically they want to take their home with them . |
| 17 | When the Friar left the children beneath the tree he went hurriedly but surprisingly lightly for a man of his bulk through the bushes until he came out on a narrow path that twisted this way and that into a deep ravine both sides of which were dark with yews . |
| 18 | Er on the day of the event you went either your mother or somebody else 's mother Usually the custom was that the the boy who was to be the horse would be decorated either by his own mother , say , or or perhaps the person who he was s s he Who he was partnering as as as ploughman , you know , horseman . |
| 19 | But the minute I went away reviewers started putting down films I loved and vice versa . |
| 20 | The first batch arrived the day they went home . |
| 21 | so their days are full so they 'll be , and the day she goes there I 'm going to City Hall to see Joe Cocker that night |
| 22 | the day I went there and turned round and just screamed ! |
| 23 | Basically these problems attend many surgical operations , and the question resolves itself into whether the transsexual should be allowed to consent ; whether , in other words , the state has an interest in striking out such consent , and thereby rendering the surgeon who goes ahead liable in tort , on the ground that he can not rely on such consent . |
| 24 | In the morning we went together to the bank . |
| 25 | At three in the morning she went forlornly to bed , promising herself to get at least one room painted tomorrow . |
| 26 | In the morning I went ashore with the captain in a bumboat , passing a variety of small craft that plied to and fro across the straits . |
| 27 | Apted 's definitions do not seem to take into account the student who goes directly to the shelves and looks for a book for an essay topic . |
| 28 | He had several pets : a grey cat Maria , Shep the sheepdog who went everywhere with him over the fields , several birds including a lame pigeon that he loved to tease Maria with ; and one spring he reared a wild duck from the egg of an abandoned nest and was upset for weeks after the October day it finally flew away . |
| 29 | And then across the road she went afterwards , to that there , She had a lovely time there . |
| 30 | The two mosaic sections from the church which went safely home to Cyprus in the early 1980s have , however , avoided the limelight . |