Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] go ahead " in BNC.

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1 Tomorrow 's Lingfield Flat all-weather meeting is the only card expected to go ahead before Friday .
2 On the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros dam and hydroelectric power station project on the Danube , Hungary had on May 25 renounced the 1977 agreement on environmental grounds [ see pp. 38843 ; 38939 ] , but work on the Slovak side had gone ahead , and the facility was to begin partial operations in early November , according to a CSTK report on Sept. 10 , with construction due for completion by the end of 1992 .
3 The skiing developments in Caimgorm 's attracted only 1.5% skiers from overseas and even if the proposal did go ahead for expansion they still could not draw skiers from Europe .
4 He was , however , disappointed when in 1985 a planned merger with the Imperial Group failed to go ahead .
5 Yesterday , magistrates in Solihull were told by a Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals inspector that Boris would have suffered a lingering and painful death if his journey in the post had gone ahead .
6 The principal , Sir David Smith , yesterday stepped up the pressure in the row over ministerial pledges , as the university court agreed to go ahead with up to 28 sackings .
7 Cases of unsuitable placements were common , but there was very little to be done once the assignment had gone ahead .
8 There were , however , two very good reasons why the operation had to go ahead regardless .
9 If the sale had gone ahead , Rio Tinto would have developed Wheal Concord , refining its ore in the modern processing plant at Wheal Jane a few kilometres away .
10 Called on the initiative of the ruling DEMOS coalition and approved almost unanimously by the republican Assembly on Dec. 6 , the referendum had gone ahead in the face of claims by the federal authorities that it was unconstitutional , and despite threats of economic sanctions .
11 I remembered reading the old nursery classic , Herbert Wells 's The Time Machine , but Wells 's time-traveller had gone ahead in time .
12 Erm , just a point of information , I think er on the hundred and thirty-one million , including the Lincoln , and I think er they would have been you would have been under serious er distress on that , because the information I have had from the Department of Transport , is that if the Lincoln scheme had gone ahead , it would have effectively blocked everything else for the next five years , and that would n't have done you any good , from where you 're elected , either .
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