Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] go [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
2 | All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral . |
3 | Er er well the engine which should have pulled , the post train , broke down so that went to the works and the engine which took its replacement |
4 | I rolled out of bed at eight o'clock and went to the bathroom where I turned on the taps for a hot bath . |
5 | She rose swiftly and went to the cubicle , where a nurse was straightening the bed and she asked , ‘ Where are they taking him ? ’ |
6 | Go , get your mum or somebody to get all your paperwork together and go to the C A B. |
7 | But the solid Swiss world was no phantom , nor would the solar system cease forging steadily through interstellar space : the sun did swing away from our casement , for all that Mary said , for all our forgetting of time , and the baby awoke and cried ; so that Mary , giving me a langourous look , dressed herself carelessly and went down the stairs . |
8 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
9 | Fires are better prevented than put out and that 's the way the Profitboss views it , preferring to learn from the problem rather than go on a witch-hunt and blame someone for it . |
10 | The temptation to stay alone at home and hear a favourite programme rather than go to a party is after all vividly real . |
11 | Even as a child growing up in the Fifties , she and her sister , Marlene , preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema . |
12 | Rather than go to the school ? |
13 | Was it the sort of chemist that erm was it the sort of chemist that you 'd go in if you 'd got something the matter with you and rather than go to the doctor , they would sort of dole out something for you ? |
14 | Rather than go onto the Cairngorm plateau itself , this walk passes through The Queens Forest and to the summit of Meall a' Bhuachaille . |
15 | And fourth , having been caught out it would have been wiser to brazen it out immediately , as do the Israelis , rather than go through the tedium of Tricot 's inquiry . |
16 | He used it sometimes rather than go into the factory at Newbury . |
17 | Rather than go round the shops . |
18 | I thought it was more sensible to walk to the library rather than go in the car cos |
19 | It will be able to negotiate directly with the Council on proposed amendments rather than going through the Commission and , in the last resort , it will be able to reject the agreed position of the Council on legislation , although it is unlikely to do so often . |
20 | So we 're l , we 're l , we 're looking at a couple of the options to see , you know , how much will it cost to actually put the money on the policy rather than going to the effort of writing it out , and it 's gon na cost about two hundred thousand pounds just to do that , erm and that , we need , we need to weigh that up with the cost of actually dealing with ten thousand letters to clients , ten thousand enquiries erm I just wondered what your thoughts were on how we should proceed . |
21 | Because we use the output from our page printer as camera ready copy rather than going to the expense of typesetting we are unable to use scanners to integrate pictures into the text as we make the pages up . |
22 | Trailing 6-3 , Cardiff won a last-chance scrum on the Swansea line and the players pressured Hall into running the ball rather than going for a drop goal which would have given them a draw . |
23 | Richard Agutter , head of Peat 's merger and acquisition network , said the relatively low average values indicated that British companies were making cross-border deals for strategic reasons ‘ rather than going for the mega-deals ’ . |
24 | It is just that going to the cinema has become inexorably linked with the purchase and consumption of such foods . |
25 | Jack walked downstairs and went to the kitchen . |
26 | You want to leave me on my own tonight and go to a disco and let some spotty lout put his arms about you ? ’ |
27 | She hurried indoors and went to the telephone . |
28 | She could not sleep and , remembering that Ronald Travis would be on duty , decided to wait until her parents had gone to bed , then slip outside and go to the signal box to see her lover . |
29 | Well there 's no point really cos you have to go backwards and go under the underpass and then up there you see . |
30 | He rubbed his eyes , rose slowly and went into the bedroom . |