Example sentences of "go [adv prt] to be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Honest prose defeats dissembling verse , and the braggart goes off to be a thief . |
2 | But then , he was going on to be a suffragan bishop in East Anglia and his sorrow and his support would go with him . |
3 | You could n't go further than the eighth class without going on to be a priest . ’ |
4 | He 's got very he 's very sensitive cells in his nose because , cos a dog used to be a hunting dog , and goes back to being a wolf , they used to track their prey to eat so they 've still got that ability and we have n't , but a dog has , it can smell . |
5 | Once you get accustomed to life on the range , it 's hard to go back to being a city slicker . |
6 | ‘ Oh , he decided that he 'd had enough and wanted to go back to being a teacher . ’ |
7 | Now if anyone asks if you feel for any sense that perhaps some of these routines have perhaps got a bit of become inappropriate in some way , perhaps because you 're teaching a different type of child , or perhaps because you 've got rather different educational aims , they 've changed for some reason , then it 's like asking someone to go back to being a novice again in some senses to change . |
8 | I know many children and I enjoy looking after them I plan to do this for my career as I have applied to Suffolk College for a place in the Nursery Nursing course so that I can go on to be a Nanny . |
9 | These short filmmakers are the people who will go on to be the Jarmans , Greenaways , Jarmuschs of the Nineties ; see their work now and tell your friends you discovered them first ! |
10 | From there , if you want to , you can go on to be an accountant . |
11 | In 1927 he joined the Portland Cement Company , who denied him car-racing rights but went on to be a sponsor for Golden Arrow . |
12 | The shop was our shop definitely and then we got a chappie who went on to be a councillor . |
13 | Peter Morgan himself went on to be a waiter in London 's foremost hotels . |
14 | They all want to be so he went off to be a computer scientist and either he was too interested in er what he describes as cult television which you think |
15 | ANGIE WENT OFF TO BE A PLUGHEAD . |
16 | I continued to chair the inquiry into pensions and later took over family policy when the much liked Minister of State for Social Security , Rhodes Boyson , went off to be the number two in Northern Ireland . |
17 | I 'm unemployed at the moment , but I could never go back to being a bricklayer . |
18 | Tonight she would have been quite willing to let him do anything he wanted just as long as things would go back to being the way they had been . |
19 | I can do it myself and you can go back to being the Direktor of the company instead of my protector . |
20 | He could not get work and eventually went back to being an electrician in a colliery . |
21 | Oh yeah it 's gone back to being a leaflet it was a booklet last week . |
22 | Now was n't it er Matthew Paris when he was still an M P , he 's journalist but Gone back to being a journalist now . |
23 | Ooh great a , a lot of politic this is what I say they were , when I think of them I can remember them , even as , as a young girl and you know remember them they were all very , very er they were only just the average working woman er I do n't think , we had got , there again we 'd got an extremely good , they 'd got an extremely good secretary , a well-educated woman erm and er the whole family was involved and it was one of their family was went on to be an M P . |