Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] go [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that if I did n't do it he 'd stop me having baths or going out in the cellar . |
| 2 | In one of them he found a collection of cheque stubs and account books that went back to the 1940s . |
| 3 | such a vertical representation tells us nothing about the relationships that go on between the centre and field offices . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Some might well be Balliol supporters and go along with the Earl for that reason . |
| 8 | Birkett shrugged his shoulders and went on with the fish cakes . |
| 9 | He waited another second , then shrugged his shoulders and went in through the double doors . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the well they left their books and went down to the shore . |
| 12 | Four pieces , four airs in four different keys ; each air , moreover , is strewn with notes that go out of the key , and the so-called key of the work , the one in which it begins and ends , is the one that prevails least ; the work goes directly from an air in E♭ major to another in E [ minor ] , which is unheard of … |
| 13 | Is not that comment on security even more staggering than the bombs that go off in the city , although all such bombings are to be condemned and deplored ? |
| 14 | Australia 's captain Phil Kearns is a confirmed fan , revealing : ‘ We talked about no shoving in the front row before the kick-off , but after five minutes that went out of the window . |
| 15 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 16 | The context-specificity of latent inhibition is not be explained ( or at least , not entirely ) in terms of interference effects that go on during the conditioning phase of the procedure . |
| 17 | To her surprise he jerked to his feet and went over to the video machine and yanked the cassette out without rewinding it . |
| 18 | I drained my mess-tin , got to my feet and went out across the cobbled farmyard , under the arch , and out along the road leading to Brigade H.Q hoping that I would not be requiring the special services offered by the medics . |
| 19 | I get to my feet and go over to the window , easing back the soft material , looking at the houses opposite in the half-light . |
| 20 | Sometimes I braved the elements and went out to the garage and thought about a hosepipe on the exhaust of the car , but I was never brave enough to face real oblivion , although when I went to bed at night , I used to refer to it as slipping into oblivion . |
| 21 | Fluffing her hair in a fine halo around her head with brisk brush strokes , and sketching in warm-toned eyeshadow , mascara and lipstick , Belinda was soon ready to slip into matt black court shoes and go out to the veranda . |
| 22 | Ellen was polishing the furniture with beeswax , but collected her cloths and went out of the room wordlessly when Paul entered , shutting the door after her . |
| 23 | Ranulf humoured him and , once they were through the Galilee Gate , handed over the promised coins and went back to the guest house . |
| 24 | They left the woods and went around by the neighbouring fields — ‘ blind ’ country where the ditches and drains were all concealed in coarse , overgrown grass . |
| 25 | I stopped taking my testosterone tablets and went back on the dole again . |
| 26 | But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears . |
| 27 | She gathered her pages of notes and went out into the sunlit streets . |
| 28 | Michael had long eyelashes and freckles that went down inside the neck of his uniform . |
| 29 | it 's all these odd ideas that go around in the barbaric south that 's the trouble ! |
| 30 | ‘ The floorboards that went down to the water with Harry , they stayed under . |