Example sentences of "was [verb] to go [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that last sally was intended to go below the belt , it failed ; the ‘ better men than you ’ line was worked out long ago . |
| 2 | ‘ From what she told me , Mellor was tipped to go to the top . ’ |
| 3 | The Spaniards had put about a cover story that the fleet assembled at Cadiz was being made ready to sail to Sicily and Ormonde was forbidden to go near the port ; he was to be picked up from Corunna . |
| 4 | Bren was dying to go to the pub . |
| 5 | I even went , I was dying to go to the toilet so I thought oh I 'll go down to the big er and I had no toilet paper so I 'll go down to the big toilets and shower rooms . |
| 6 | ‘ And how did she know he was dying to go to the match ? ’ |
| 7 | The bill , which was expected to go before the Chamber of Deputies after the municipal and regional elections in May 1990 , prohibited ownership of a daily newspaper to anyone owning three or more television stations . |
| 8 | A vote on the bill to divide Czechoslovakia was expected to go before the Assembly on Oct. 1 . |
| 9 | I do n't know why I think maybe the , the tablets helped , but erm I was saying I was kind of having second thoughts whether I was wanting to go on the H R T or |
| 10 | Despite this one Macchi of the 79 a Squadriglia was seen to go into the sea between Gozo and Cap Scalambria possibly due to oxygen starvation of the pilot , Serg.Magg . |
| 11 | When Rajiv was persuaded to go into the family business by his mother in 1980 , Sonia was against it . |
| 12 | I was told to go to the telephone . |
| 13 | So I was told to go to the dermatologist . |
| 14 | I have looked around the faces before games in the past wondering who was going to go to the wire with a home crowd after your blood , never mind the opposition . |
| 15 | And there were two more people in front of me that was waiting to go on the course . |
| 16 | In 1981 Vitalis Okoth from St Paul 's Parish , Mbaga , was invited to go on the course . |
| 17 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
| 18 | He was set to go in the autumn , but he did not run away from that one — he got the editors of five friendly newspapers to run away for him . |
| 19 | ‘ After that , totally by chance , I was asked to go on the road with Mike and the Mechanics and it fitted around the 1989 work I was doing with the Floyd . |
| 20 | She said she was asked to go to the bank to sign away the house . |
| 21 | There was a little food left over from yesterday , so she managed to achieve a meagre lunch ; but in the afternoon she was forced to go to the village again to buy some provisions . |
| 22 | His task was made easier when Marcel Albers , the second-placed Dutchman , after setting the fastest lap , was forced to go into the pit with electrical problems . |
| 23 | She 'd had her first transfusions and was preparing to go to the hospital for her next one when world events took over . |
| 24 | The vessel sank as the Aberdeen lifeboat was preparing to go to the aid of the stricken boat . |
| 25 | Er , costing for parallel , repeat jobs , that 's been dealt with by Simon erm , Client contact record I think that 's now been assimilated into new procedures yes we have just talked about that er sub- contracting you have probably dealt with that , although we have n't discussed it yes er , list of procedure owners I have prepared and reissued it , I do n't how wide they have circulated it , it was meant to go into the Quality Manual , and the Quality Manual is not being re-circulated until March time . |
| 26 | When the moran of the Purko section rose in 1918 , in protest against recruitment , all operations against them were suspended while Delamere , at his own request , was allowed to go into the reserve and negotiate with the rebels . |
| 27 | As I got older , about seven or eight , I was allowed to go to the park on my own . |
| 28 | After some initial encouraging noises from Jim Callaghan , the Labour Party turned this request down and the NILP was allowed to go to the wall in the near-war situation that the province had become by the early '70s . |
| 29 | When he took me to a football match we saw Paul Gascoigne and I was allowed to go on the pitch . |
| 30 | Finally , at around 3am one Sunday in 1967 pump man , Willie Baxter , was detailed to go through the tunnels from St Enochs to Bridge Street Station where he was to attend to a tank located beneath the stairs . |