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

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1 ‘ But after what went on in the first leg , I hope we get a referee who will be strong enough to stamp out any foul play .
2 For a moment Trent thought of letting the whole damn lot of them go up on the reef .
3 None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain .
4 Well anyway , it reaches night and the three of them go down into the attic .
5 And the Relief Committee and the Board of Works inspector upstairs — four of them go out on the balcony , and there was a silence would have lifted off your hat .
6 Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon .
7 No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was .
8 When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’
9 Well does it follow then that both of you went over to the bed , that 's what I 'm getting at .
10 Huge sums of money were generated by the World Cup and it is of the greatest importance that most of it goes back into the game and its development .
11 There was a lorr of it going on at the time , y'know .
12 thought it should be in there cos it 's normally Okay now all that happens here if you if you think of it going back to the picture with the the magnets or the electrostatic charges or or bonds whatever you like to think of it .
13 United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on .
14 Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side .
15 But Steven had a b-i-g problem , because he had spent his whole life in Never Never , a land not best known for its grasp of real life , and his idea of what went on in the world outside was limited to the hazy notions he had picked up … from the movies .
16 My hon. Friend draws attention to the fact that there is considerable maladministration among Labour councils , as witness the discovery of what went on in the council of Brent when it was under Labour control .
17 The glass was a deep blue colour , opaque , so the outside world could see nothing of what went on inside the heavily guarded building .
18 One view is that insider research calls for the free-ranging exploration of what goes on in the classroom without the constraint of any preconceived theory .
19 At any one time , therefore , most of the many beliefs that constitute our knowledge of what goes on in the world are beliefs that we do n't know we have .
20 But in the end , higher education is a matter of what goes on in the mind of the individual ; it is essentially a personal affair .
21 If we say that such-and-such a group of words are the " subject " or that some other group of words are the " predicate " in a copular verb phrase , we are , by such observations , recognizing the speaker 's intention to construct expressions which will identify certain properties and entities , and to assign some of the former to one of the latter , so as to let an audience know what entities are under attention and which properties are claimed to hold for which entities ; we take this to be the essence of what goes on in the use and understanding of linguistic expression ( whatever the purpose to which individual acts of communication are directed ) .
22 The law is too rigid and recognises too little of what goes on in the housing estates and back alleys of industrial towns .
23 Going to the committee meetings once a month and then keeping the new mums informed of anything going on within the Central Branch .
24 Going to the committee meetings once a month and then keeping the groups informed of anything going on within the Central Branch .
25 Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women .
26 That land is extremely valuable , and what 's more I would suggest that the three people here at the table with me go back to the Property Committee , to which they belong .
27 With everything going on about the Poll tax , it 's extremely easy for us to understand how they felt .
28 I rang the owner Gary Harris , and arranged with him to go out to the USA and view the aircraft , after which we came to an agreement and I purchased the Corsair .
29 Ted , 51 — now trained in law and first aid — said : ‘ As a cleaner I 've had an insight into what goes on in the cells . ’
30 The first is his idea that language is not a thing apart from the rest of life , and related to it only via what goes on in the mind of the language-user .
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