Example sentences of "go [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very quietly one gets up and goes noiselessly to check the bolt 's on the door . |
| 2 | Instructors should test every student before allowing them to go solo to make quite sure that they are not seriously affected by reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 3 | And , and , the judging people , their ideal event is one which goes exactly to plan . |
| 4 | Finally , when the walls of Amal 's room began to vibrate from the sounds of the bass from the stereo , she decided to go downstairs to ask her brother and his friends to turn down their music . |
| 5 | She then felt reluctant to go downstairs to face the man who had so recently been kissing her bare breasts , so she took extra time to straighten the bed where she had almost been willing to — no , longing to make love with Silas , she amended with a burst of mental honesty . |
| 6 | I was standing up , offering to go downstairs to get more drinks , and glancing out of the window when I saw Jo . |
| 7 | But that 's what I hate , I 've got to go downstairs to get my breakfast . |
| 8 | Got to go downstairs to get my lunch , it 's really |
| 9 | You 've got to go downstairs to get everything . |
| 10 | She would have to go downstairs to find and fetch a new one from the store cupboard in the kitchen . |
| 11 | What a dreadful day that was , and I was on my own because Uncle had to go away to attend to business matters . |
| 12 | Finally , give the subordinate authority to go away to make the final choice and implement any action . |
| 13 | ‘ Frankenstein has to go away to make it . ’ |
| 14 | After a few days , her hunger becomes so great that she goes away to feed , leaving her young in the charge of others . |
| 15 | If we were asking this question of an amphibian or reptile , which lays its eggs and goes away to live solitarily except when the mating season comes around again , we would answer it purely in terms of the physical ecology of the species . |
| 16 | When I reach its head the man in charge goes away to conduct a transaction involving cardboard boxes . |
| 17 | You should encourage the puppy to go outside to relieve itself , however , whenever you are present , rather than using the dirt-box . |
| 18 | Right down , and how , do you have to go outside to get to it ? |
| 19 | Nothing else would change , though , the north geographic pole would n't move , and if we were to go outside to check up , the sun would still rise and set in the same place , and the Pole Star would appear at night over the local gas works . |
| 20 | Smaller and more volatile businesses do not have this luxury and often find themselves unable to attract the best people , and therefore have to go outside to recruit for senior management . |
| 21 | Once they had their lunch they would return to the seats and eat , when finished they were permitted to go outside to play . |
| 22 | Waterworth , 6ft 3ins tall , told the jury that he had not wanted to go outside to fight . |
| 23 | The population is diminishing due to the advancement of the machine on the farm , so very few men are needed on the land , and many of the young folk have to go elsewhere to find work . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | One thing that I always wanted not to happen to me was to become like a TV cameraman who goes home to watch TV and says , ‘ Aw , look at that lighting , ’ or something trivial that really has nothing to do with the actual story . |
| 26 | Unlike the Beggar , the friend does return once , looks over Hoccleve 's work ( a translation from the Gesta Romanorum ) , and goes home to fetch him a better copy , including the moralising of the tale which Hoccleve 's copy lacks , and which he immediately begins to translate . |
| 27 | The quiet man with the violin , who goes home to play trios with his quiet and loving wife and his quiet and loving daughter , in his quiet and well-loved house along that quiet and rural lane , with London lying quiet at his feet — and even surrounded by this best of lives he 's plainly a depressive ! |
| 28 | ‘ We chose sponsorship through ActionAid because of the personal link with a child and the fact that the money goes directly to help the child 's family and village . |
| 29 | They supported their local firms by providing direct research subsidies and trade barriers , forcing many US producers to go offshore to regain cost competitiveness . |
| 30 | like that cos Bill goes early to release them on Fridays cos that way they can go shopping with their missus and everything . |