Example sentences of "he go [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 'E went into the bathroom , and I went .
2 It finished 'is boxin'. 'E was goin' ter fight fer a title before 'e went in the army . ’
3 Gambling on the dying man being able to comprehend , he had ordered him to go for the destruct button , while he himself had kept Grant occupied by an exchange of fire .
4 Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing .
5 He must be able to stamp his authority not only on his team but on the peloton as a whole , directing the whole tenor of the race before it is time for him to go to the front and win .
6 It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education .
7 Hence the perception that , however hard he tries — and it was brave of him to go to the wall at all — Mr Clinton will always carry this particular cross , and that his relations with the armed services will always be shaped by it .
8 The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) .
9 Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it .
10 Over at The Wine Cellar , Keith Meerza , the joint owner , has sat a customer down in the corner and is trying to persuade him to go to the police .
11 Also , unlike others who had been brought up in more cultured surroundings , it was a rarity for him to go to the theatre and even more of a rarity to go to other forms of public entertainments , including the cinema .
12 I even tried to get him to go to the studio .
13 He urged him to go to the local hotel , only twelve miles in the wrong direction .
14 She was too full of misery to finish and she brushed past him to go to the stairs , not able to face this at all .
15 I urge him to go to the railway stations each weekend and to get the newspapers that are handed out free of charge .
16 I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell .
17 They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) .
18 He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) .
19 Trust him to go to the other extreme .
20 Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me
21 Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things .
22 This allowed him to go on the offensive , including on issues that Dr Cunningham devoutly wished would evaporate , like that cause célèbre .
23 His creator had fashioned him from clockwork and set him to go through the motions of living without giving him the actual breath of life .
24 Eventually , though , I could no longer manage him at home — he was so weak ; so I arranged for him to go into the residential home , where Miss Prescott and Mrs Whitaker did everything they possibly could to make him happy and comfortable — and succeeded .
25 A nurse taking him for a more experienced dresser had given him a gown and told him to go into the Burns Room .
26 ‘ You do n't want him to go into the theatre with you ?
27 The repetitive purr of the telephone broke into the fragile atmosphere , and Shelley walked past Miguel without looking at him to go into the villa .
28 It wants him to go beyond the landscaping of degraded industrial sites as a means of attracting new investment , to embrace the concept of ‘ sustainable development ’ which was backed by the UK government at the recent Earth Summit .
29 The most muttered-against official is the director of campaigning , John Lacy , though no one in the organisation expects him to go before the election .
30 Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him
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