Example sentences of "[vb past] to go [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard 's father had been a builder , his two elder brothers were house painters ; his older sister was married to a carpenter : another just left nursing to be married ; his two younger sisters were still at school and planned to go to college against their mother 's wishes . |
| 2 | During a hunger strike she asked to go to Confession . |
| 3 | ‘ Only if you 'ad to go to work , ’ said Dolly . |
| 4 | We'se got to go into town . ’ |
| 5 | What you got to go into town for ? |
| 6 | Each day held a different challenge or , as one long-standing employee put it : ‘ We all lived to go to work . ’ |
| 7 | Mama made me promise to feed you before she agreed to go to bed . |
| 8 | Jane agreed to go into pantomime . |
| 9 | Problems relating to Châteauroux and other lands in dispute in Berry and Auvergne were referred to a panel of arbitrators ; Richard was to marry Alice ; finally both Louis and Henry agreed to go on crusade and , in the meantime , made a mutual non-aggression pact . |
| 10 | Microsoft Corp 's New Technology operating system , expected to go into beta test this month now not be put into the hands of end users until July , Bill Gates told information systems managers and journalists at a computing debate in London last week . |
| 11 | Researchers for the Lord Chancellor 's Civil Justice Review found that three quarters of local authority tenants , half the private tenants and two-fifths of mortgage borrowers failed to go to court . |
| 12 | Germans were confidently walking in the streets when the alarm sounded but they did n't take it seriously and failed to go to air raid shelters . |
| 13 | Each time I pretended to go to sleep again and went crazy after a few minutes . |
| 14 | He went behind the settee and pretended to go to sleep . |
| 15 | As soon as he realised his mistake he tried to go into reverse , but once America sent troops to Saudi Arabia the dictator was trapped : only then did he make Kuwait the 19th province and drop all talk of withdrawing . |
| 16 | When money became scarce , he tried to go on welfare , but the woman official said , ‘ What 's your problem , Mr Webb ? |
| 17 | Unless you count the occasion in Turkey when he tried to go to bed with a prostitute while suffering from the pox . |
| 18 | But anyway , I put the pills and the gin firmly aside , turned out the light again , and tried to go to sleep . |
| 19 | Finch groaned and tried to go to sleep . |
| 20 | So in the end I went upstairs , left Tony to it and I came back down and I tried to go to sleep again , I put me coat over me head and I could n't sleep so I moved . |
| 21 | She 'd never make it if she tried to go by bus . |
| 22 | In concluding he promised to go to prison rather than pay his fine . |
| 23 | So we still promised we 'd see nanny and we have n't , and we still promised to go to aunty 's and we have n't . |
| 24 | Automatically she prepared to go to bed , her mind worrying at the puzzle like a terrier . |
| 25 | The expiry date loomed as we prepared to go to court , but to our relief Wedgwood agreed a three-year extension in recognition of the work we had done . |
| 26 | Iraq 's nuclear plans seemed to go into abeyance while it was reactorless and still bogged down in its costly war against Iran . |
| 27 | But he never seemed to go to war , as other men 's fathers did . |
| 28 | There were two entire sections of medical works , mostly in French , including many — they hardly seemed to go with spiritualism — on psychiatry , and another two of scientific books of all kinds ; several shelves of philosophical works , and also a fair number of botanical and ornithological books , mostly in English and German ; but the great majority of the rest were autobiographies and biographies . |
| 29 | How it deserved to go to Paradise . ’ |
| 30 | Nevertheless , in 1806 , staying at the house of his friend Sir George Beaumont , Wordsworth began to go to church again , even though he was not a regular attender . |