Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] go [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Ken , as technically-minded as ever , did n't notice was that all the clocks had been set to go off in the middle of the night — which , needless to say , they all did . |
| 2 | So , for example , someone met initially at work may be brought home to a meal , or arrangements may be made to go out to the theatre , perhaps . |
| 3 | WE spend thousands of pounds on road safety , yet the DoE are allowed to go out on the roads and lay a spraying of tar then scatter shovels full of loose stones on top of it . |
| 4 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 5 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 6 | So long as there is a need for collective decision-making and for policies which give direction to a whole community or society , and so long as or whenever unanimity can not be achieved , it is hard to see what alternative there can be to the minority being compelled to go along with the decision of the majority . |
| 7 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 8 | Now parents are being advised to go back to the classroom and sit alongside their youngsters in video-based spelling lessons . |
| 9 | Girls were chosen to go along to the Sophisticut salon in Paignton , Devon where they spent the day being pampered and totally transformed by Christopher and his artistic team . |
| 10 | Erm I think that 's had gone out of the coal merchanting business erm probably by nineteen twenty or earlier , I think . |
| 11 | It 's called going down to the pub . |
| 12 | Notice is set to go up in the local regsistrar 's office on Thursday , just 48 hours before they walk down the aisle . |
| 13 | He is encouraged to go on with the process of living ( line 60 ) and perhaps hints at compensation for suffering in an after-life . |
| 14 | She says she 's determined to go along with the system , so no one can say she bucked it . |
| 15 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 16 | The USA had previously been opposed to such involuntary repatriation , as had the Vietnamese government , but the latter was expected to go along with the initiative , given its current desire to restore diplomatic relations with the USA . |
| 17 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 18 | The nearest I 've come to being arrested in the line of duty was when I was told to go out onto the streets , microphone in hand , and smile at people . |
| 19 | Or as a laboratory supervisor , who was asked to go along with the manufacture of ‘ doctored ’ data so as to secure a contract deadline put it ( Vandivier 1972:22 ) : |
| 20 | The crimson rope-lights still held him , so that he was forced to go on down the slope until they stood before the terrible dwelling place of the necromancer . |