Example sentences of "go [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SECURITY OPERATION GOES TO CONTRACT STAFF |
| 2 | The total task needs to be broken down into small easily achieved wins , eg every teacher will be in the playground five minutes before the bell goes to greet children and parents , four children from each class will have their names entered in the ‘ Gold book ’ for good work or praiseworthy actions , any child in hospital for more than one night will receive ‘ get well cards ’ from the class and a visit by a member of staff , the entrance hall is cleared of clutter and made more welcoming for visitors . |
| 3 | Excitement fades to disillusionment , and so another piece of technology goes to gather dust on a storeroom shelf . |
| 4 | Erm , I 'm going 'cos I 've got to go to see whatsit called ? |
| 5 | The county bird club will probably produce an annual report — ask at the library or contact the RSPB regional office — and that will help you to find out where to go to see birds , which is one of the most difficult things to discover without something or someone to point you , literally , in the right direction . |
| 6 | Reluctantly we had to stop as it was time to go to see Mr Hopkin , who made us most welcome . |
| 7 | Class Teacher goes to see Head . |
| 8 | When Lucio goes to prompt Isabella on how to persuade Angelo — a scene in which persuasion has much of the ambivalence that Shakespeare commonly associated with rhetoric — he moves up to verse ( Measure for Measure , 1 . |
| 9 | Many French demands , it is true , were modified or rejected , but it is striking how far the other five were prepared to go to accommodate France . |
| 10 | ‘ My immediate family knew only that I was mad enough to go to savage lands where I would live in the jungle , menaced by lions and snakes , and might be lucky to escape the cooking pot . |
| 11 | and in between time she goes to meet Gordon so er |
| 12 | While the Doctor goes to find help for Steven , Bret attempts to hijack the TARDIS , but is thwarted . |
| 13 | ‘ I ai n't goin' downstairs , ’ said Linda , ‘ I bet you was goin' to pinch things from that bag . |
| 14 | Imagine the comical scene when Grant goes to visit Rod who is convalescing at home . |
| 15 | Another air-blast separates the nut from the hull , which goes to feed cattle while the nuts pass to the sheller . |
| 16 | In winter they earn next to nothing , few of them having in their youth learnt to knit and spin ; and if in summer they are able to go to harvest work , they must pay some person a shilling a week out of their earnings for looking after their children . |
| 17 | The disclosures , which follow a fortnight of leaks sparked off by the Guardian 's revelation of the sweeteners scandal — show how far Lord Young was prepared to go to sell Rover to the private sector . |
| 18 | Plenty of people in Donegal , Cavan and Monaghan would be delighted , as they would not have so far to go to buy drinks , groceries and cigarettes . |
| 19 | He takes him to a football training course , because he does n't like to think that he goes to play football on the park . |
| 20 | Worse , the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) has served notice that it is going to treat cable firms , under the terms of the 1992 Cable Act , more or less as it treats telephone companies — that is , with vigilance . |
| 21 | We are not going to treat men as the enemy but both sexes will have to fight against the same ideology . |
| 22 | erm and surely this , this is the implication that we were talking about last week , that erm if , if you are going to promote industrialization which is now the aim somebody 's got ta produce a surplus for investment for that . |
| 23 | Now I suggest that er do n't you , it 's vast numbers of Russian people milling about with nothing to do is certainly not going to promote stability . |
| 24 | No one 's temper was improved when they learned that the Land Rover had parked right on the patch of ground they were going to plant things in . |
| 25 | If there 's a supply side shock , erm , if we take bad weather in say the northern hemisphere , that 's going to affect prices , but because there are some producers who sell on the world market who come from the southern hemisphere , right , perhaps , there 's good weather in the southern hemisphere , and that 's , because there 's a larger geographical area over which erm , production is spread , it 's less likely that we , we 're going to see major fluctuations in supply right , and as a result it 's less likely that we 're going to see major fluctuations in price . |
| 26 | Now it also goes on to say that 's going to affect electricity prices which will rise , now how will that compensate with , with nuclear electricity ? |
| 27 | How how is this going to affect things ? |
| 28 | Now the thing that seems to be the most interesting on the er face value of it , is er how it 's going to affect fuel consumption and transport , and he is saying that they 're considering whether further changes should be made in the taxation of er fuel and vehicles . |
| 29 | " The food web is so isolated from anything we consume that it is not going to affect people " , she added . |
| 30 | But I want to know how this is going to affect people in the streets . |