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

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1 Tony and I reckon that when Matt goes to heaven he 'll have his nose in an Ordnance Survey Map and he 'll be saying , " If I remember rightly there should be an old bloke around here with long grey hair and a grey beard and a long white nightie on .
2 Fat chance of that , or of persuading Jessica to go with her to Aunt Jane 's in Port Erin .
3 When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face .
4 But parliament is far away , and the border of Wales is very near , and is there a soul in these parts who does not know that smuggling goes on day by day , and that life here would be impossible if it did not ?
5 Much of a research chemist 's ingenuity goes into devising pathways of feasible intermediates between starting chemicals and desired end-products .
6 So we use cardboard boxes and even if you 're moving crockery , you put half or a third of what you 'd put in a tea chest goes into er a a a cardboard box .
7 The story goes like this .
8 THE STORY GOES LIKE this : a young man of 31 called Gary Humphreys from came down to London on June 1 , last year .
9 If you have n't then the story goes like this … .
10 So now you want a bulb to go in there now .
11 Paging from Vodapage gives busy people like you the freedom to go about your business and get the message .
12 to transfer the lump sum so that that income goes to the one with the .
13 In a part of Chile where half the region 's income goes to 10 per cent of the population and a quarter of all the people regularly do n't have enough to eat , the day to day problems of scraping together an income are common .
14 It will automatically calculate , for example , what proportion of your income goes on things like the car and household items .
15 Much of my paltry income goes on rent boys — one of my few weekend leisure activities .
16 He has proposed that the civil list be abolished and that the Royal family live off the proceeds of the crown estate , whose income goes at present direct to the Exchequer .
17 The intense involvement which can soon develop makes programming one of those rather rare activities in which time can cease to exist and the passage of hours goes by unnoticed .
18 Now , the talent of musicians like Extreme 's Nuno Bettencourt goes without saying .
19 ‘ My son has just passed his exams to go to St Francis Xavier .
20 What they all have in common is that they are all attempts to go beyond appearances .
21 Somehow though , The Fall of Yugoslavia comes across as a series of fragments that do n't quite make a whole , and any attempts to go beyond the yawn-capacity of school history books are sadly flawed .
22 There have , however , been some attempts to go beyond this and to develop conceptions of TNCs not as representatives of the power of the state , as tends to happen within state-centrist analyses , but as independent of and even , on occasion , opponents of the state .
23 I do n't want a bit to go to America now .
24 I erm am obviously feeling guilty cos I 'm not feeling guilty but it makes me cough a bit to go to the post office every week and get vastly more disabl disability er invalidity benefit than he gets , vastly more .
25 Erm There 's quite a bit to go into with that but that 's hopefully given you some idea of how electricity works .
26 However , we still have to do the other bit to go in the , yes .
27 I think that may have been construed as impolite , so I smiled and replied that , yes indeed it was still a bit to go before the top , and wow , certainly it was proving mighty tough .
28 My sister goes for them
29 Virtually all of V A T goes to , you know .
30 Botswana goes to the polls on Saturday , when seven parties will contest 34 seats in the country 's single chamber .
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