Example sentences of "go [adv] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 and goes right to that wall does n't it ?
2 " Did you know the canal goes right under this house ? " she said .
3 But for the vast majority in Northern Ireland life goes on with little inconvenience from the depredations of the IRA .
4 The main point is to raise money for Christian Aid , and although preparatory work goes on for many months , the 3 weeks during which the Church is used for sorting , and them selling , seem to bring out all the best feelings .
5 The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars .
6 The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory .
7 Um I know er at the in the clinic and all that kind of thing , I mean goes on about these people quite a bit .
8 As I have already noted , some kind of political change goes on at all times , produced by the succession of generations , the rise and fall of dynasties , competition among various social groups , economic and cultural developments , changing external circumstances , and more idiosyncratic factors , which can only be understood fully through detailed historical studies .
9 He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof .
10 It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it .
11 ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq .
12 The associative learning that goes on during such pre-exposure will be dependent upon the context in which training occurs , and to this extent latent inhibition will be attenuated by a change of context .
13 The media through which the sharers of a culture refine their insight into what goes on in each other 's heads are the arts in general , through which the most aware evoke in their audience the look and feel of things from their own viewpoints ( in the case of the drama and novel , of multiple interacting viewpoints ) , in fixed forms available to be explored at our leisure .
14 Latent inhibition goes on in all experiments aimed at revealing the nature of stimulus representations and often acts to mask the effects under investigation .
15 Some of this will almost certainly be in contravention of the 1988 Copyright Act , but a lot will be legitimate copying similar to that which goes on in all universities and public libraries .
16 ‘ I 'd like to know exactly what goes on in that head of yours . ’
17 ‘ It 's knowing what goes on in that place that 's the thing , General .
18 Something goes on in that room on a Monday and a Wednesday .
19 ‘ I do n't want to know , ’ Sophie interrupted sharply , then , seeing that Helen looked rather ruffled , she added in a more conciliatory tone , ‘ It 's just that , although I 'm very interested in what goes on in that practice on the veterinary side , I do n't really think we ought to interest ourselves in the personal ups and downs of the people working there . ’
20 We 're supposed to know what goes on in this country , and the PM 's health is a national asset , so …
21 ‘ I ought to have found this out before , especially as I usually know everything that goes on in this village , but they 've managed to keep it secret .
22 Also , the local MP has taken it upon himself to look personally into what goes on in this prison . ’
23 This centre looks like a huge barracks in the hills and no one knows what goes on in this place .
24 I know he talks to you about what goes on in this office , but I get a feedback about you . ’
25 Above them on a rocky promontory of convenient geology , Jesus kneels in prayer , an exercise that still goes on in some places , though with less agony and less certainty of address . ’
26 And er , they are actually a good description of what goes on in those departments and those that relate to these procedures .
27 Nobody knows what goes on in these places .
28 It goes on in more detail but that is the basis of it .
29 ‘ The men wo n't come in 'ere if they 're on strike , ‘ specially if it goes on fer any length of time .
30 This evaluation highlighted one of the points made in Chapter 2 : what goes on between components is as important as what goes on within any component .
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