Example sentences of "[vb mod] to go [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 She said : ‘ We ought to go straight to meet Cobalt but there are other things I want first . ’
2 But if a judge errs the other way and fines a rapist a few hundred pounds , or puts on probation a bank robber with previous convictions who clearly ought to go directly to jail , nothing happens .
3 Well well er Jimmy you know used to go down to learn to read the music .
4 I remember that whenever I had tuppence to spend I used to go there to buy one of the outdated paperbacks from the ‘ Popular Sports Library ’ on sale at half-price .
5 I did just at first , because I missed my Mum , so I used to go back to visit her .
6 Day in and day out , today they can Same with old mowing machines , they used to go out To open a field up in those days , they used to have to go round with a scythe .
7 That illegal payments to players in the top clubs was widespread and continued throughout the period of the maximum wage emerged from evidence of overpayment by Sunderland in the 1950s submitted anonymously to discredit the chairman , Bill Ditchburn , a wealthy local business man , who used to go out to buy fish and chips in his pink-and-mauve Rolls-Royce .
8 You used to go in to play snooker did n't you ?
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