Example sentences of "was go [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have to live on cheap or free food , so what I really needed to do was to go and see some nuns . |
| 2 | Since I had raised the issue , I was to go and make it — which did n't please Berthon . |
| 3 | ‘ He was to go and live in Falmouth , ’ Richard said . |
| 4 | ‘ I think the most famous sexual moment in the world was to go and conquest this person as my love , and I succeeded , ’ he laughs . |
| 5 | The arthritis , an inherited complaint , was painful in both knees , she had slept fitfully , disturbed by nightmares , and now she was to go and spend a distressing afternoon with Eleanor . |
| 6 | Remember the boys are at home and if I was to go and ask Martin he would immediately say yes . ’ |
| 7 | Previously , investigations like this had been done mainly from the outsider 's point of view , and it was men like Evans-Pritchard ( 1902–73 ) , Radcliffe-Brown ( 1881–1955 ) , and , particularly , Malinowski ( 1884–1942 ) , who determined that the only really effective way of understanding the way of life of these peoples was to go and live among them for an extended period of time , learning their language , and becoming accepted as a member of their social groups . |
| 8 | Going by past experience , there was a high probability that something had happened to the others , and her first instinct was to go and search for them . |
| 9 | He suggested that I write about poor women , and the only way in which I could honestly do that was to go and live among them , and I knew that you and Uncle Orrin would never agree to that . |
| 10 | There was only one way to get one and that was to go and buy one . |
| 11 | Worse one I had was to go and get some elbow grease . |
| 12 | Well now , what they 've done something which I think if there as I said to you in the first place , if they 'd have run their cards played their cards right , they could have said to that fellow ‘ look you 've got no rights to be here , we never gave you planning ’ what 's wrong with this planning people , they step here and they step there , there 's people do things without planning permission , they do nothing at all about it , if I was to go and stick something up in my front garden , they 'd come along and say ‘ hey , . ’ |
| 13 | When Anne had tentatively broached the subject of where Kathleen was to go when she left hospital , she said , ‘ Doctor Boland says I 've not got to worry about that . |
| 14 | At first it was only Michael that was going but on hearing that we were hoping to marry they decided to have me as well . |
| 15 | The heat was going but not completely gone . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't ask ; I told Gina where I was going but I 'd better not stay too long . ’ |
| 17 | He had told no one where he was going but on the following day , Sunday , in the strong light of noon , he had returned to the out-building and searched it thoroughly . |
| 18 | No , Claire was going but she had , did n't have time on the way back |
| 19 | And the , the chef 's were squeezing the custard carton and it was going cos it was the last and the |
| 20 | The bell for lunch was going when Mike Pumfrey and Sergeant Fenniway finished the main part of their initial interviews . |
| 21 | He says the state of the damage shows how fast the car was going when it crashed . |
| 22 | Oh well it was going when I was , you were talking all the way back from the squash club |
| 23 | I was n't going to ask him where he was going because he 'd only lie . |
| 24 | And I was , I was laughing and it , everyone was going because it was Patrick Swayze but I was still seeing Whoopie Goldberg ! |
| 25 | The concern , though , was always with where the music was going and which of its layers were propelling it , so that the occasional sudden stillnesses became a real opening-up of another dimension in the music 's workings and vision , not just a refuelling stop for the orchestra . |
| 26 | It was n't until she had successfully launched The Body Shop on to the Unlisted Securities Market that she began to examine the direction in which the business was going and to start articulating its mission in a definitive way . |
| 27 | I did n't know where I was going and I was scared . |
| 28 | You know , he would keep citing statistics on how their recruiting was going and what they were doing . |
| 29 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 30 | He was so excited at his new find he did not look where he was going and ran straight into Blunset , who was busy scribbling out a calculation on a wall . |