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

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1 Agnes stood directly in front of her mother now as she said , ‘ Would it do you any harm either to go down into the shop or to go over to the house and change the linen ?
2 There is no transport on the island , and to walk in perfect quiet along the little narrow roads , discovering wayside temples and little shrines ; meet a crowd of smiling , noisy children coming out of school ; or to go back to the quayside where fish , vegetables , cheap jewellery , sunglasses , cooked food , hot snacks were all being sold in the open air ; all this was a blissful change from the hectic atmosphere of the city .
3 It may be possible , while accepting the underlying general principle , to argue against its applicability to nuclear weapons : for instance , by saying that a nuclear bomb is not a chemical weapon as such , the poison gas being a mere incidental by-product ; or to go back to the fundamental prohibition of ‘ weapons that cause unnecessary suffering ’ and argue that the suffering caused by a nuclear weapon is not disproportionate to its military effectiveness .
4 However , the employee 's option may not be the simple one of staying with the transferor or going over to the transferee .
5 The advantage is that there is no line , visible to the fish , coming from the bait , either on the surface or going down to the bottom .
6 I expect you remember the lovely lake at the end of our road , and the rides in the sampan , or going out with the Moothams when Maria used to say , at the end of an excursion , ‘ Rachel never stops talking ! ’
7 He said that if I did n't do it he 'd stop me having baths or going out in the cellar .
8 He repeated that it was the right of the pope to inspect and crown , absolved all from their oaths to Philip and again exhorted all the princes to adhere or go over to the support of Otto .
9 ‘ Are you going to stay here or go back to the Villa Fiesole ? ’
10 It is possible to take a difficult route back to the line almost immediately , or go on to the next farm and follow a track there .
11 If you go to the racecourse you can bet at the course 's own betting shop or go out into the ‘ betting ring ’ where bookmakers have odds chalked up on boards .
12 If you tend to throw things , put objects away or go out into the garden .
13 Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer .
14 Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police .
15 Stay out here or go back into the classroom , she did n't want to be found out there if by any chance Miss Graining the Head came by .
16 ‘ I would hope if sufficient parents support me they will either postpone the tests until Easter , by which time the children will have some idea of what it is like , or go back to the previous system .
17 He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc .
18 It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation .
19 And there 's a pro forma that goes through to the quantity surveyor 's section .
20 The inhabitants inside certainly know everything that goes on on the outside of their windowpanes , however .
21 This sort of economic and social domination that goes on across the whole family .
22 I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches .
23 That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched .
24 Murderous and anguished work — the thinking that goes on between the rehearsal and the deed itself .
25 ‘ We will obviously monitor everything that goes on over the next 12 months ’ , he says ‘ We can only hope that when we do our assessments of need we can support that need with the finances we 've been given .
26 Even with all the other general fund-raising that goes on over the year , it is pleasing that you still run or participate in events that are specifically for the Society ; we have again benefited from Raffles , Cake Sales , Bring and Buys , Good as New , Cheese-and-Wines , Coffee Mornings — AND — Sponsored Slims !
27 Now , erm on the subject of of the family , it 's worth mentioning another erm sort of debate that goes on within the subject of child sex abuse , the business of I suppose you might call it the business of responsibility .
28 The difficulty with such a conclusion is that one can claim authenticity for anything that goes on in the classroom , including mechanistic pattern practice and the recital of verb paradigms , on the grounds that it may be conducive to learning ( type 3 ) and a feature of the conventional classroom situation ( type 4 ) .
29 Splitting ‘ But then Alison never discusses anything that goes on in the household .
30 Because of the risk of rejection by the ITVA , the vast majority of commercials are first shown to them at script stage , and the discussion and negotiation that goes on in the majority of cases takes place on scripts alone .
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