Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] to go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | eh , the same number on four lines , but if were want to go out four people were to phone in at the one time |
| 2 | Only where industries used coal directly , like the forges of Sheffield , were towns yet blackened and the air poisoned ; and only where they produced ‘ waste ’ in great quantities , such as in coal-mining , glassworks and chemicals , was the landscape beginning to acquire that sterile covering of ‘ tips ’ , that were destined to go on piling up until they produced a mountain landscape in miniature ; until the vast range of coal-tips around the old town of Wigan , for example , could be sardonically nicknamed the Wigan Alps and be illustrated in later years under that name on picture postcards . |
| 3 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 4 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 5 | They were told to go off and play . |
| 6 | ‘ I just got the impression you were going to go on arguing all night . ’ |
| 7 | Had you any had you any clue at all that they were going to go back ? |
| 8 | Oh yes , we were going to go out but bother . |
| 9 | So all were invited to go along . |
| 10 | I liked her , we were starting to go out , then all this happened and I never saw her again . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , if you were intending to go back to the States with your fiancée … ’ |
| 12 | There is literally no limit to the abuses which might creep in if such a practice were allowed to go on without restriction . |
| 13 | The native peoples of Siberia were allowed to go on benefiting from the reforms which Speranskii had introduced in 1822 ; in this area " there was no sustained programme of enforced Russification or even christianisation " . |
| 14 | At one stage , it seemed the Kuwaitis would accept no compromise by insisting that they were allowed to go on rebuilding their production to 2 million bpd . |
| 15 | It seems incredible that they were allowed to go up and jump out without any rudimentary training in landing techniques . |
| 16 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 17 | But once you 'd lied — even if it were only by implication or simply by failing to deny something — you were forced to go on lying . |
| 18 | The TUC edict was followed on 5 July by action against the Cricklewood sorters — they were laid off by the Post Office management and threatened with the withdrawal of strike pay by the Union of Post Office Workers and as a result were forced to go back to handling Grunwick mail . |
| 19 | Then , just as someone mentioned the band were preparing to go on next door , my luck changed . |
| 20 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 21 | A young man in a smartly hideous jacket tried to come out while the kids were trying to go in . |
| 22 | If we were minded to go down the new settlement line ? |
| 23 | Children who were required to go out to work at fourteen , that is , the great majority of British teenagers , could hardly be blamed for assuming the right to lead their lives as they saw fit . |
| 24 | Girls were chosen to go along to the Sophisticut salon in Paignton , Devon where they spent the day being pampered and totally transformed by Christopher and his artistic team . |
| 25 | Androgyny was expect to go along with a broad , flexible and effective repertoire of behaviours , and well-adjusted emotions . |
| 26 | Previously there had always been at least the possibility that it might be wound up after its current voyages were complete but under Cromwell the traders reorganized its joint-stock system so that , while individual owners might sell their shares , the Company was designed to go on trading forever ; and almost all companies founded subsequently were organized in the same way . |
| 27 | He was forbidden to go out . |
| 28 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 29 | Would the demand for securities be low if their price was high , but was expected to go on rising ? |
| 30 | The USA had previously been opposed to such involuntary repatriation , as had the Vietnamese government , but the latter was expected to go along with the initiative , given its current desire to restore diplomatic relations with the USA . |