Example sentences of "the [noun pl] go [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just sticking one of the mouse heads back on when the birds went up into the evening air , kaw-calling and screaming , wheeling over the path through the dunes where it went near their nests . |
| 2 | Then anti-climax , as they watched its tail-lights in the pitchy dark , lights that seemed to throb and waver in their seared sight before they blazed redly when the brakes went on for the corner by the sailing club slipway . |
| 3 | old said I do n't want any of the lads going in with the girls |
| 4 | So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end . |
| 5 | When the dun evening comes the kids go down to the irrigation channels for some bilharzia bathing . |
| 6 | The winners go on to the national finals in York , the winners of that may have a chance of selection for the Paralympics in Barcelona . |
| 7 | Tonight Middlesbrough stages the heats of the February Trainers ' Stakes , with the winners going through to the final on Saturday night . |
| 8 | The local heats take place at Acklam Sports Centre on Wednesday and Thursday , July 29 and 30 with the winners going on to the regional final on August 5 . |
| 9 | By and large , apart from one very important exception concerning the question whether the section 39 notice overrides the injunction , the defendants go along with the Bank of England 's arguments . |
| 10 | The CAB has become quite used to responding to emergencies , so when a bureau is alerted to an impending crisis and the clients are unlikely to be able to visit the bureau , the workers go out to the clients . |
| 11 | Ednyfed , the writs go out within the hour . |
| 12 | It 's the Saturdays going out to the hospital , the smell of floor-wax and urine in the corridors , the helplessness , the moments of despair … |
| 13 | Back in time for our encore at Wembley ( well , after six nights , you do tend to get a bit lax , and anyway , the tapes went on in the right order and the dry ice was great ) . |
| 14 | Erm and on a Friday all the beds went out onto the grass outside the wards for the wards to be cleaned |
| 15 | For instance , if a business sells ten pounds worth of goods for cash , the goods go out of the business as sales and the cash comes into the business . |
| 16 | Would you believe it — a false start and the man with the red flag is there to make sure all the eggs go back to the line . |
| 17 | Sitting in the back of the car I watched the suburbs going by under the street lights . |
| 18 | He had known she was old but she had been so full of vitality , and interested in all the things going on in the world , that her death was a shock . |
| 19 | This time , the lights went up on the slipper-fight . |
| 20 | For a moment , the sergeant had that same sense of disorientation when the lights went up at the end of an afternoon programme in the cinema and he felt he had just flown back from another world . |
| 21 | The lights went out during the two world wars and the austerity years which followed , so although this year is actually the 80th anniversary , it 's only the 60th display . |
| 22 | She had talked of a sex scene when she was on Wogan , but he assumed it would be something more romantic — a magnolia bud of a tit peeping from beneath bed linen as she held out her arms to her lover and the lights went down at the end of the play . |
| 23 | At the time I was mucking out the byre stalls , and piling the manure on top of my big heap when I saw the lights go on in the house . |
| 24 | And she sang a few bars into the mouthpiece , swaying a little , watching the lights go off in the theatre . |
| 25 | In the Mala Strana , the secretaries and the artists , the nurses and the busmen return to their apartments , the lights go on in the high windows , the courtyard below us is filling up with the smells of food and voices discussing — what ? |
| 26 | One of the most common mistakes is beginning foreplay after the lights go out for the night . |
| 27 | The Rokermen go through to the quarter-final for the first time since 1976 and a delighted caretaker manager Malcolm Crosby said : ‘ I am proud of the players . |
| 28 | I am as aware as anyone of the changes going on in the world . |
| 29 | And the bridge , with the strings going through to the back of the body ? |
| 30 | At Harwell laboratories , they 've been monitoring air pollution and found the levels went up during the recent hot spell . |