Example sentences of "[modal v] go [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , you ought to go to a party and do one . |
| 2 | The key function none the less lies in the drawing up of the legislation ; deciding what should go into a bill and what should be omitted , and how the proposals should be drafted . |
| 3 | You should go for a cruise if you ever get the chance . |
| 4 | Detectives warned women to be careful while the attacker was on the loose and said people going for a walk — especially women — should go with a friend or a neighbour , not alone . |
| 5 | You do n't want to get caught , you 'll work in a secluded place , you 'll go for a place that 's got hedges around it and where you ca n't see the door . |
| 6 | Oliver said : ‘ We 'll go into a bar until he 's gone . ’ |
| 7 | I mean they 'll go to a concert and make judgments about what they hear quite happily … they come back and moan , ‘ We ca n't judge composition , how do we know what criteria to use ? ’ |
| 8 | I mean , she 'll go on a bus but no further , and we tried everything to get her to come to America — she would have loved to see me on Broadway , and she wanted to get there . |
| 9 | ‘ The worry was that the ankle might go during a game and that is why it was felt best for me to play in the reserves . |
| 10 | I used to go to his characters for help as a Catholic might go to a priest or a sick man to his doctor . |
| 11 | Cos we might feel when we come out there we 'll look at the turkey , might go for a walk or go |
| 12 | The headquarters of the League became a club where members could go for a drink and where Joyce served behind the bar . |
| 13 | and they 've got quite a big place at Harrogate where you could go for a day or two to observe what was going on and so on . |
| 14 | The employees were occasionally terrified of Bernard ‘ as if he had one over him , ’ as they described it , but they all knew that however much he might stamp and shout while the anger lasted , he could go for a walk and come back as if nothing had happened . |
| 15 | ‘ We could go to a café or something . |
| 16 | We could go to an exhibition or something . ’ |
| 17 | Well they 're , I mean at least you knew if you did n't like the school you could go into a factory but I mean O levels for doing the jobs we are , I , I think it 's , we had a good laugh about that . |
| 18 | The ex-members could go into a corner and negotiate a new treaty for a small er number , but that would not include us . ’ |
| 19 | no I know , I do n't know though could go into a bank or something like that |
| 20 | In America we 'd get like a column , and erm , but I think you could even do more , that the real life , the people , you know , is in the high street and the shopping malls and , you know , there 's a lot of kind of horoscope and gossip and stuff that could go into a paper that could be fun . |
| 21 | But always the world in which you could go into a shop and buy as much bread and potatoes as you liked was remote . |
| 22 | Even knitting wool was on ration , but for a time a keen knitter could go into a shop and buy up hanks of thin darning wool ( un-rationed ) and use that to knit with , until some spoilsport in the Government ruined that idea by decreeing that all darning wool should be cut into approximately twenty inch lengths before it was put into the shops . |
| 23 | Living is where I could go into a shop and say … |
| 24 | Yes you do and , and also , another thing , and it 's , in a way it was a bit annoying because we 'd go on these like crash diets , you know , we 'd get really nasty and s well not nasty and skinny we 'd just get really skinny before we went cos you know we would n't eat anything except like fruit for a we , we 'd eat , we 'd go on a diet and then we would n't eat fruit for , would n't eat anything but fruit for the week before and so we 'd , you know we 'd like have flat stomachs and you feel , if you have n't eaten you feel thinner even if you 're not , it 's all , it 's a bit , it 's psychological is n't it ? |
| 25 | The idea was that I 'd go for a fortnight but when I got there she gave me the bum 's rush so I spent a couple of miserable days in France and then hared it back to England . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought we 'd go for a drive and put her through her paces , ’ he suggested . |
| 27 | No , I do n't think I 'd go for a house that erm I would n't but those big houses of course it would have alarms would n't it ? |
| 28 | Before you 'd go to a rave and it would be : only Black people go to that rave , only white people go to that rave ; now it 's merged . |
| 29 | I used to go into a shop and I 'd shake and I 'd know that I was doing wrong and I 'd be really scared and I 'd just knew I do n't want to go to prison so I decide to stop it . |
| 30 | We used to go on a tram-car and have a smoke , and a councillor was on there once , and noticed us having a smoke . |