Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] go [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DHSS were playing me up over the removal grant , so one of my sons went up to the house to see if there were any letters — everything had been smashed , crocks were smashed and the beds were slashed . |
| 2 | Then one of my sons went down into the village to see if the army had left , He came back to tell us that they had destroyed everything , that they had taken all the maize , all the cows and had burnt every house in sight . |
| 3 | we had our red and white rosettes and when our , I was sitting watching the match and when they scored the goal my slippers went up in the air . |
| 4 | I invariably receive responses such as ‘ anger ’ , ‘ fear ’ , ‘ frustration ’ , ‘ inadequacy ’ , ‘ failure ’ , ‘ my ideals went out of the window ’ , ‘ I wanted to throttle him/her ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't let Dad hear for God 's sake , ’ she moaned quietly , as all her inhibitions went out of the window . |
| 6 | Its origins go back to the rediscovery of perspective in the Renaissance , and then to the architect 's drawings of the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | The ponies walked slowly because their feet went down into the snow . |
| 8 | The ILP certainly broke up , but most of its members went back into the Labour Party . |
| 9 | Erm and er that it 's maybe very important at a time like this when children are potentially going and and knocking on stranger 's doors to be particularly careful so what we 've done is is is put together a simple guide for parents and carers erm which suggests that er they should n't just let their children go off for the evening . |
| 10 | Sometimes I 'd watch their kites going down into the fields overhead , down until they dwindled away out of sight , long before they reached the tops of the trees You ca n't do that often , though , because of all the smog . |
| 11 | Even more drastic intervention was to take place in China ; its roots went back to the control of the Chinese government 's revenue by foreign supervision of the Customs from 1858 onwards . |
| 12 | Booth 's survey also had an influence on a similar movement in the United States , though its roots go back to the middle of the nineteenth century when a number of small surveys on the " dangerous classes " were undertaken . |
| 13 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 14 | As his eyes went back to the old lady , she saw the smile turn on again , and quick suspicion kindled in her breast . |
| 15 | He shuddered and looked away , his eyes going off to the horizon . |
| 16 | Immediately after the Last Supper , Jesus and his disciples went out to the Mount of Olives . |
| 17 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
| 18 | He bared her breasts ; put his tongue to them as his hands went down to the belt of her skirt , to find that she 'd changed for the trip , and was wearing jeans . |
| 19 | The former Kent and England spinner Derek Underwood , director of cricket at Club Surfaces , had this to say : ‘ Of course I enjoy seeing our pitches go in at the Etons and Tonbridges , but it is at grass-roots level within the state-schools sector that the wealth of untapped talent must not be lost to the game . ’ |
| 20 | When our teenagers go out for the evening , most of them use something , if only occasionally , as a social prop . |
| 21 | ‘ Our hearts go out to the other victims of this atrocity . ’ |
| 22 | Our hosts go back along the jetty , |
| 23 | I mean a lot of our conversations go on with the television on in the background . |