Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] go [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some of the other customers stood up and demanded to know what the Chancellor was going to do about the economy , ’ says proprietor Moziruddin Ahmed , who was far too discreet to say whether Mr Lamont paid by Access . |
| 2 | However , the only disaster occurred inside the Tower , where the duty staff dived to the floor when it looked as if the port wing was going to come through the window and a bottle of red ink emptied itself down the right sleeve of Flt Lt Dunlop , the Officer in Charge . |
| 3 | It was obvious at this stage that the race was going to develop into the best of the day so far and when Lofthouse moved ahead again with one lap to go , Robert had it all to do . |
| 4 | If the Formalist definition of its object was going to allow for the specificity of literary studies , the Formalists regarded it as necessarily entailing the exclusion of all mimetic and expressive definitions of literature . |
| 5 | Schaffer was going to move into the cloakroom and take a look through the window , but as he grabbed his binoculars from the office there was a polite knock on the thick outer door which resounded through the hollow space of the building . |
| 6 | ‘ We were scared the bell was going to ring for the end of classes , ’ says Sylvain Souillon . |
| 7 | The only good thing about all this was that the procession was going to march through the Old City . |
| 8 | They supposed that one sex was going to care for the eggs , but that selection on both sexes would make them , if possible , desert the eggs and thus force the other sex into doing the work . |
| 9 | ‘ How futile to announce that some great lead to thought was going to emerge from the mountain of memoranda discussed at high pressure by exhausted delegates . ’ |
| 10 | Leigh says : ‘ I honestly thought I was going to be on my own for at least a decade but I did n't know the Twiglet was going to come on the scene . |
| 11 | how long the employment was going to last in the absence of sickness ( a short-term contract is more likely to be frustrated than a job expected to last for the foreseeable future ) ; |
| 12 | The fingers , however , still did n't function and the hospital was going to amputate on the following Wednesday . |
| 13 | And this show was going to travel to the National Gallery of Canada , among other places , and then maybe Mr Chrysler might try to sell some of them . |
| 14 | Faintly , he remembered Lavinia once saying that the little girl from Sea House was going to come to the nursery school next term . |