Example sentences of "[was/were] go [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 2 | On the front page was a story about an old man who had lain dead in his council flat for eighteen months until Gas Board workers had discovered him , a blurred photograph of some local women who were going somewhere in a body to protest about something and a larger picture of a council dignitary opening some sort of centre and looking pleased with himself . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together . |
| 4 | I think from that report there was a there was a requirement or request that perhaps the theatre should actually have a public meeting to talk about which way the theatre was going what things were going on at the theatre and that 's what the meeting is for this evening . |
| 5 | The whole balance of the bird population altered where these changes were going on in the landscape . |
| 6 | The pipes were going well considering the damage inflicted on them during and after the landings . |
| 7 | So that 's when I was eating my dinner , when they were going up for the cup and she fell asleep , well you know with the wine in you , here was my eyes all out for the count . |
| 8 | Were going up to the test match at the Oval , Clive likes that . |
| 9 | But said that they went on Tuesday evening they had some people over and they were looking we were gon na go for a meal in Chorley er they 'd come over from Grantham , and they were going over on the night on the night ferry , on night boat from Hollyhead . |
| 10 | Oh , must be Friday then , I knew they were going away for the week , weekend |
| 11 | At least if they kept going towards the sunset they were going away from the Ridgery and would arrive somewhere . |
| 12 | They were going away from the house towards the sea . |
| 13 | The preparations for The Human Angle , Dyson discovered , were going forward in a room on the first floor furnished with a sea-blue fitted carpet , a number of discreetly abstract paintings , and a walnut sideboard . |
| 14 | The DEA 's on-going , controlled deliveries were going right past the end of my desk . |
| 15 | I felt what was happening was we were going not in the direction of addition , but of total change . |
| 16 | And then there was these these thick er straw ropes going over and then there were the other which were going sideways along the roof to hold the thatch down . |
| 17 | Neighbours said they were going back to the country . |
| 18 | ‘ We were going back to the hotel when it happened . |
| 19 | He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember . |
| 20 | It did not matter that they were going back to the house of the Scarabae . |
| 21 | At the official launch of the the new Countrywatch campaign the area 's police chief said bobbies were going back on the beat in rural areas . |
| 22 | There they were going down to the car . |
| 23 | Who were going in for the exam and I were n't allowed to help them . |
| 24 | I think the army thought they were going in to a situation where they could they could help , they saw themselves if you like as the referees er as a neutral party in between two sides . |
| 25 | Fireworks were going off in the city , in advance of Halloween . |
| 26 | They were going out for a west end meal in the evening . |
| 27 | When we were going out of the theatre at the end of the pantomime I saw a little lad crawl under the seat and put it in his pocket . |
| 28 | They were going out into the world though none of them knew quite where until it was announced in public at their Commissioning Service it , the Albert Hall . |
| 29 | As we were going out through the doorway he stopped us . |
| 30 | Good companies as well as bad were going under as a result of falling markets and bad debts , said BCC policy director Richard Brown . |