Example sentences of "[pers pn] go ahead [conj] " in BNC.

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1 He told me to go ahead and finish it . ’
2 Should I go ahead and stab them or just scare them ?
3 May I go ahead and place an order for this model ?
4 I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction .
5 I went ahead and asked all the usual questions but I knew the answers already .
6 The enclosed pamphlet continues to flatter me , explaining that since nobody ever promised me a rose garden , I went ahead and grew my own .
7 In fact , since I had already made my holiday plans , I went ahead and paid my second visit to the railway , together with my wife and eldest daughter .
8 For example , you mentioned the need for public liability insurance , so I went ahead and arranged that ; I also had signs made saying ‘ Caution : Work in Progress ’ , as you recommended ; I took care to explain to the volunteers to avoid disturbing the kicking stones , and to avoid making heaps of spoil so as not to impede the grass cutter .
9 Assuming that I now had BWB approval in principle and a promise of funding , I went ahead and on 12 May called on our members for volunteers .
10 Accordingly I went ahead and circulated all potential volunteers with a call for the weekends of June 12-13 and June 19-20 , which at the time was two months away and I assumed this would allow enough time for SNH approval to come through .
11 Erm I know it 's easier said than done sometimes but er it has to be your decision because even if you went ahead and were confirmed , we were tal talking about the idea of sometimes parents bring pressure on them on you to go ahead and do it and be confirmed , erm when perhaps you 're not do n't feel ready for it and it takes a lot of courage to stand up and say No I 'm not ready .
12 while they 're away , well , she never , she was quite happy to let you go ahead and do it she said , the only thing was , she said she 'd miss having the privacy in that corner because of being overlooked at the back .
13 Erm I know it 's easier said than done sometimes but er it has to be your decision because even if you went ahead and were confirmed , we were tal talking about the idea of sometimes parents bring pressure on them on you to go ahead and do it and be confirmed , erm when perhaps you 're not do n't feel ready for it and it takes a lot of courage to stand up and say No I 'm not ready .
14 However there are , of course , some very good coroners who say to the inspector at the outset , ‘ You go ahead and do your job of investigating the cause of the accident and I will carry out my formal inquiry into the cause of death , and in those areas where our activities tend to overlap let us co-operate together but equally let us not interfere with each other in respect of those matters in which we are not qualified to make judgements . ’
15 " And you go ahead and take the rest of these cigarettes , why do n't you ?
16 I say , ‘ You go ahead and use the bathroom because I 'm not quite ready . ’
17 ‘ I suggest you go ahead and do that .
18 You go ahead and go out with Nigel Westwood whenever you like .
19 But you go ahead if you like .
20 ‘ I did n't realise that animals were not supposed to have personalities , or to think or to feel emotions or pain , ’ she recalls — which is just as well , since she went ahead and recorded what she observed , instead of what she was supposed to observe .
21 ‘ Shall we go ahead and plaster , then ? ’
22 Given the order to use the guns we go ahead and , using well-practised procedures , call down the full weight of fire from a notional battery of Abbott self-propelled guns .
23 ‘ We want to create a wildflower meadow , but it 's important to see what 's already here before we go ahead and plant , ’ says Dean .
24 But if we go ahead as planned , then Miranda will own forty-five per cent — a minority holding — and after acquiring her shares , and taking up your rights issue , you will own thirty per cent . ’
25 We 're glad we went ahead and found out about research and about how parents perceive our work .
26 So we went ahead as planned : Beryl , Cathy Carne — you 've met Cathy ?
27 Having told me that everyone was advising him to record it , I told him to go ahead and do it , but not with me .
28 Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May .
29 Nevertheless , one of their licencees had requested this and , since it was a lucrative contract , Bernard had told him to go ahead and produce it .
30 We entered the Manston circuit and found two Stirlings demanding emergency landings and I recognised the voice of one of my lads , Desmond Ince , and I told him to go ahead and take my turn to land .
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