Example sentences of "go [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story goes that trains from distant towns had special coaches attached ( or there were even dedicated special trains ) to bring those sentenced to imprisonment for serious offences to Huntsville . |
| 2 | The doctor trekked through the driving snow behind the girl , and then left her downstairs to go and tend to the mother . |
| 3 | Hands down , hands down because erm we 've got to go and change to another class now |
| 4 | ‘ Now , I 'm going to go and apologise to her . |
| 5 | It will only be small at the outset for example one might get the opportunity to go in and on or might get the opportunity to go and advise on P R P or something and it 's not suddenly going to result in an invitation er to . |
| 6 | The winner of stage eight was the Australian , Patrick Jonker , who escaped from the leading break of 13 riders with a mile to go and came in 12 seconds ahead in a time of 4 hours 40 minutes 45 seconds for the 125 miles . |
| 7 | You have to go and knock on her door , cos she ca n't hear you shouting . |
| 8 | Shortly after the end of the strike , Dobre left the valley to go and study at the Communist Party 's university in Bucharest , the Academy Stefan Gheorghe . |
| 9 | They asked me to go and stay with them , away from the place where the burglary had taken place . |
| 10 | I used to go and stay with them in their homes — in London , in Sussex , in Devonshire … ’ |
| 11 | He 's asked me to go and stay with him . |
| 12 | When Diana was a little older she used to go and stay with her . |
| 13 | He used to go and stay with her when he was a little boy . ’ |
| 14 | I mean do we want to go and stay with the children at camp or shall we stay home ? |
| 15 | When contracts had been exchanged on the house Lee arranged to go and stay in Wales for a while with friends , a couple with a two-year-old boy , who lived self-sufficiently , an ‘ alternative lifestyle ’ . |
| 16 | The green grasshoppers fittingly tended to go and settle on the green backgrounds , and the yellow grasshoppers on the yellow . |
| 17 | After getting the flying bag and doing all the planning and paying Operations , we were so hungry that we had to go and eat at what turned out to be an excellent restaurant where all the airport employees go as well as the passengers . |
| 18 | I felt awful as other children were upset and their mums looked horrified so I had to go and explain to each mum individually why I thought she did it and say that they were to feel free to stop her themselves and explain . |
| 19 | You 'll have to go and sit with Mrs Black 's class , ’ and she pointed to the little ones seated on the floor . |
| 20 | She thought now , she might be better to go and sit with Nan-Nan who had been Mama 's nurse but who in spite of that was not so very old . |
| 21 | In half an hour Rachaela would be able to go and sit with her . |
| 22 | He wondered whether he should ask Crumwallis to go and sit with the boarders in the dormitory , while he had a word with this young Freely . |
| 23 | He told her to go and sit on it . |
| 24 | I was going to go and sit by the river with Dorothy Wordsworth . |
| 25 | He had to go and sit in the woodshed and smoke it . |
| 26 | ‘ We used to go and sit in the park , on the river bank , and she 'd have a book and I 'd have a book … |
| 27 | They had arranged a tenant but been let down , and Signor Fixit had promised to go and sit in their villa , having let his own house . |
| 28 | Only if it 's nice , you know , it 's summer , I used to go and sit in garden with dog . |
| 29 | Do you want to go and sit in the lounge , Joanna ? |
| 30 | The well-tested welfare organisation swung into gear , as the Welfare Officer once again climbed into her car to go and speak to the wife and assure her that temporary accommodation had been arranged for her and the family , and that the move from one house to another would be made as smooth as possible . |