Example sentences of "[conj] go [adv prt] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These arise from a household 's obligation to devote many unpaid hours of work to caring for its dependent members , and from the fact that some households have only one fit person of working age who has to choose between doing this , or going out to earn a living , or driving themselves to exhaustion trying to do both . |
| 2 | And I tend to draw , most o , most of us tend to draw them as straight lines with branches coming off they may actually show the chain as a twisted chain or zig-zag chain or going in to form a square or something ! |
| 3 | He must have been hiding out with Tanner , or gone round to scrounge a meal . ’ |
| 4 | What was the name of the plane that went on to set a world air speed record of six hundred and six and a quarter miles per hour . |
| 5 | The narrator ( of the Morgans ) is called Arthur and it is Arthur who survives the death of Philip and goes on to become a writer of some undefined kind on the model of David Copperfield and Great Expectations . |
| 6 | She argues that they can constitute a new perspective for the social sciences and goes on to show a continuity with the anti-positivism and rejection of the knowing subject in structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to understanding . |
| 7 | Kaisa , bored by the proceedings , takes advantage of the slack trace and goes over to have a look at a tree . |
| 8 | I honestly believed Graeme Souness ' men would overturn their 42 first leg deficit and go on to win a tournament desperately lacking in class participants . |
| 9 | They continued their bloodthirsty chatter , as they identified the weak and the injured and went over to negotiate a purchase price . |
| 10 | She looked away from him , and went over to straighten a picture on the wall . |
| 11 | His brother Marshall Field , arrived three years later and went on to become a world legend as the Merchant Prince |
| 12 | He was one of Edward IV 's servants and went on to become an esquire of the body of Richard III , but he never regained office in Monmouth and deserted Richard before Bosworth . |
| 13 | He was one of Edward IV 's servants and went on to become an esquire of the body of Richard III , but he never regained office in Monmouth and deserted Richard before Bosworth . |
| 14 | Steve Lewis , who won a Welsh Schools cap from Albertillery GS at scrum-half and went on to gain an Oxford Blue in 1973 and play for Ebbw Vale and Bath , was approached and took on the job last summer . |
| 15 | The novel Lust for Life by Irving Stone , published in 1934 , is the most famous of these productions , popularising a vein of interpretation established early in the century by some of Van Gogh 's first advocates , such as the taste-maker Julius Meier-Graefe , who defended Van Gogh in 1906 , and went on to write a book in his praise in 1921 called Vincent . |
| 16 | Mr Jefferson retired in 1976 and went on to help a friend with office work . |
| 17 | When John Fenwick Latimer started , he worked alone from an office above Dresser 's printing and stationery shop and went on to marry a member of that family , Miss Annie Jane Dresser . |
| 18 | As a child Susan used to turn the pages for pianists at the club 's concerts , and went on to get a music degree . |
| 19 | ‘ Dinner will be ready in an hour , ’ she informed him , and went up to run a bath . |
| 20 | But after an hour Leonora grew bored and irritable with herself and went off to have a bath . |
| 21 | I refuelled and re-armed and went back to keep an eye on Thacker who was about three miles out in the channel . |
| 22 | He bought a gold Piaget with a diamond-set face , had it gift-wrapped and went out to find a cab and go to meet Irina . |
| 23 | In Sacramento he began as an unworldly ideologue , but went on to become a pragmatist . |