Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] go [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very much in demand , with so many credit card thefts going on at the moment . " |
| 2 | She stared at the car lights going by on the ceiling and thought about her Diary and wondered how much they would pay her for it . |
| 3 | ‘ A lot of people would never deny the Shangri-Las , a great band produced by Shadow Morton , were fake girl singers going along with the producer 's ideas . ’ |
| 4 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 5 | On his left — but for the bungaloid eruption — ; there would have been sand dunes going down to the deep blue sea of the Channel ; the stretch of golden sand — had it not been for the litter — making a gentle curve for five miles . |
| 6 | Others , being anciently established , also have manuscript materials going back to the days of their foundation in the Middle Ages or the Tudor period . |
| 7 | When he goes abroad , he always buys a return ticket to the airport a ) because he thinks this will save three milliseconds in a fortnight 's time ; b ) because he knows he 's coming back ; and c ) in case fares go up in the interval . |
| 8 | In South Africa , only mad dogs and security guards go out in the last white summer |
| 9 | But once record companies went back on the sales offensive the new pop was easily coopted . |
| 10 | , whose science policy roots go back to the presidency of , retorts : ‘ Paternity is always to prove ’ . |
| 11 | She called them girls but many were women whose working days went back to the Utility dresses and khaki battle-dress . |
| 12 | Application forms went out with the February newsletter but if you did not receive one please contact Keith Barlow on 0602 856672 . |
| 13 | At this point the straw bolsters go back into the windows and the outer door is shut and locked . |
| 14 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 15 | It has , of course , been a problem with star conductors going back to the time of Nikisch that the conductor can come to seem more charismatic than the music he is conducting . |
| 16 | Back at Templecombe , now over his shock , Mandeville paced around like an angry cat , hurling abuse at Santerre , telling Lady Beatrice to stop screaming and order servants to go down to the village and bring wise women to attend to Southgate . |
| 17 | The retirement of Sergeant Merrey marked the end of another era — not only the departure of a friend and character , but the last of a long line of School Sergeants going back to the appointment of Sgt. Sash in 1888 . |
| 18 | Like other major echinoderm groups the geological record of the sea urchins goes back to the Ordovician . |
| 19 | In such an optimistic climate it was easier for national governments and interest groups to go along with the economic ambitions of the EEC ; it was not seen as a great threat to their own concerns . |
| 20 | He was a great favourite with the London playgoers , and there were a lot of Falstaff jokes going round at the time . |
| 21 | As dark fell , street lights went on in the square and many demonstrators lit paper torches . ’ |
| 22 | Talk is of household refuse trains going back to the moth-balled Gobowen to Nanbrynmawr line — from Manchester . |