Example sentences of "[noun] and go [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic .
2 They climbed back into the jeep and went on along the rutted lane , lurching and splashing through deep puddles , the Brigadier worrying audibly all the way because ‘ things were n't as they should be . ’
3 Gordon sat quite still for a few seconds , then uncrossed his legs and went out of the room , a room in his own house , or rather his mother 's .
4 Turn left into Bleak Terrace and go back onto the Fell through the wicket gate to the village boundary wall .
5 Slowly he rose from his seat and went over to the headmaster who stood twisting the piece of white chalk between his fingers .
6 She put the scarf back round her neck and went through to the shop .
7 Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green .
8 ‘ Oh , I 'm well enough , ’ Mrs Clamp said , shaking her head and coming down off the stool , picking up some more frozen burgers and going back to the freezer .
9 Some might well be Balliol supporters and go along with the Earl for that reason .
10 Steve picked up his sandwich and went over to the television set where he sat eating it while he watched the news .
11 We dress up like bit-part players in an epic on Scott and go out into the night where the air bites clean and deep , and the snow crunches in that beautiful cold way .
12 Charles shuffled through his pockets for a two p piece and went down to the phone .
13 You hurriedly get out of your car and go round to the rear .
14 She grabbed her handbag and went through to the bathroom .
15 He again eased himself out of the narrow space of the breakfast nook and went over to the kitchen counter , looked at the parcel and looked at his wife , who was now almost hysterical : He decided that he must be courageous and investigate , so he unwound the paper towels , picked up the books one by one and read their titles .
16 Birkett shrugged his shoulders and went on with the fish cakes .
17 He waited another second , then shrugged his shoulders and went in through the double doors .
18 If there are no more loans to be entered , the user presses the RETURN key and goes back to the options list .
19 Okay press the er escape key and go back to the regression results , erm so return to the post regression menu and then display regression results , regressult results again .
20 Here , in an empty silence , he unpacked his bicycle panniers and went up to the pantry where the bulk of the xerox squatted amongst unsavoury tea-towels beside a tea-stained sink .
21 Look , take this sovereign and go down to the station .
22 ‘ Be our guest , ’ said Noolan and went back into the social room leaving the large figure , head wreathed in cigarette smoke , seated at the top of the big committee sized table .
23 At the well they left their books and went down to the shore .
24 His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ?
25 So the days were unhappy and the nights a bleak nothingness , and although I never actually put a rope around that pulley , nor loaded my shotgun and went out into the field and dug my own grave — as I had visualized so often — nor started my engine in the garage , yet I thought about all three , and on occasions I thought about one or other for days at a time .
26 They left the goose in the dairy and went back along the passage and through a swing door with baize on one side into a wide , dark hall where a grandfather clock ticked in one corner and a small oil lamp threw shadows .
27 He was unable to find work and went back to the North to be near his little boy .
28 Last weekend we booked a 55-seater coach and went down to the youth soccer international at Wembley between England and Italy and had a marvellous time . ’
29 She put him in the cubicle and went back to the nursing station to phone the physiotherapy department .
30 One of the university students said she had brushed past him in the corridor and gone out into the street .
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