Example sentences of "[conj] to go [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in many cases boys and girls leave home at around eighteen to get work , for further training , or to go to university . |
| 2 | They express current mood , state of finance , preparation to take part in sport , or to go to work . |
| 3 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 4 | Or you may be a carer looking for help to enable you to take a break , either for regular short spells , or to go on holiday or in an emergency . |
| 5 | Back at the hotel , after finally conceding that there was no way out of her financial dilemma other than to go to work for G.W. Fashions , Lisa had demanded , as Vass had sat there drinking coffee , oblivious of the callous blow he had inflicted , ‘ So , how long is this arrangement supposed to last ? |
| 6 | ‘ Than to go for strychnine — that 's what it looks like to me , and you can see that he had a rough passage out . |
| 7 | After sketching the steamboat , as she lay in the bay unlading her cargo , from the bridge over the water that divides Pultneytown from the old town of Wick , I got into one of the boats leaving the pier , and was landed on board the ‘ St. Nicholas , ’ thinking it would be more pleasant to visit Thurso by sailing round the coast than to go by rail . |
| 8 | As a bonus , ticket holders will be able to tour Plymouth before the 8pm performances , and to go on board HMS Onyx , moored alongside . |
| 9 | I want a car , a nice home , a working wife , a child , and to go on holiday . ’ |
| 10 | He says he will learn to be independent , how to drive a car and to go to work , everything a paralysed patient can do these days . |
| 11 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 12 | She wants me to forget about the civil service and to go to university , ’ she said as soon as she got home . |
| 13 | We will ensure that a number of carefully selected children from poor homes , including perhaps even some children or grandchildren of immigrants , are allowed to succeed at school , and to go to university . |
| 14 | After some discussion , Paisley , Wylie , and Foster decided to refuse to pay their fines and to go to gaol . |
| 15 | Work-people would not be expected to reason why , but to go on doing until they retired . |
| 16 | The increase was even felt to be too great : in 1964 , when British groups reached 212 , it was decided to slow down the growth in the UK — not to ‘ act upon the ephemeral enthusiasms of an odd individual ’ , but to go for quality . |
| 17 | So we 've been left with no other avenue but to go to law . |
| 18 | Conceptually , all readmissions are bad , since to go into hospital again may be a profoundly disturbing and negative experience for the patient ( i.e. a poor patient outcome ) . |
| 19 | But being unqualified for anything more taxing than preparing meals and cleaning rooms , it seemed I might have no alternative but to go into service . |
| 20 | Still considering whether to go for microfilm with computer-aided retrieval , or a DIP ( document image processing ) system . |
| 21 | Quite often a decision has to be made whether to go for quantity or quality . |
| 22 | Ceolwulf left England himself in 796 in the company of the bishop of London ( ASC A , s.a. 794 ) but whether to go on pilgrimage or into exile is not known and he died the same year ( ASC D , s.a. 796 ) . |
| 23 | You must decide at the start whether to go to court or use arbitration ; if you use arbitration you can not start court action afterwards . |
| 24 | You must decide at the start whether to go to court or use arbitration ; if you use arbitration you can not start court action afterwards . |
| 25 | The women worry about babies and whether to have them , or about men and whether to go to bed with them : always the sign of a male screenwriter of limited imagination ( though Kasdan 's wife Meg gets co-writer credit ) . |
| 26 | He should read the treaty : we are part of all the decisions on economic and monetary union , with the additional point that , unlike our European Community partners , we have the choice , when the decision is made , whether to go into stage 3 . |