Example sentences of "was [adj] go [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Then he walked over and told me that a Corporal from the Foreign Legion recruiting office at Lille would come to pick me up in two hours ; until then I was free to go for a walk and get something to eat . |
2 | ‘ I was prepared to go to the United States for the most up-to-date expertise , ’ says Clemency . |
3 | I was afraid to go into the house after what had happened in the village , so I hid in the hut . |
4 | er erm we changed to Embankment and he was supposed to go on the district line over to Ealing |
5 | Oh yes , at that particular time , I will tell you that once again er , that was er I was supposed to go for an interview and this was er for the er declaration of intent of , wh which was er supposed to er supposed to be given every year to both the Lothian Regional Council and the District . |
6 | He was supposed to go with the swimmers . ’ |
7 | I was the person who was supposed to go to every city before David got there to make sure that everything was in order , that the hall that was going to be performed in had all the facilities that were required — and the hotels — I had to check all of that . |
8 | " There was some confusion at this stage because the target began to behave in an odd way , we knew she was supposed to go up the River Stour to off load , but finally I made the decision to go alongside her at sea . |
9 | However , London Transport was unwilling to go to the expense of refitting proper external lighting and the headlamp masks were never removed , as they incorporated red slides for display at the rear end of the car and the combined side lamps-tail lamps and route numbers had been removed or rendered ineffective at the beginning of the war . |
10 | fifty one , fifty two and we thought it was great going to the pictures , you know , when you were still at school , actually you know , in , on a school day sort of thing ! |
11 | it was rough going for the tailwheel , and there was a sharp crack aft . |
12 | I think it was useful going to the pub . |
13 | We would not be taking time off work , making all kinds of out-of-the-usual arrangements , unless we thought it was important to go to the funeral as a mark of how we feel about the person who had died , and wanted to ‘ pay our respects ’ . |
14 | Fortunately I was able to go to a rehabilitation and assessment centre for two weeks . |
15 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
16 | Hendry was nowhere near his best in the afternoon session but with Wattana , who beat Jimmy White in the semi-finals also making mistakes , Hendry was able to go into the interval with a narrow 4-3 lead . |
17 | But Xury was happy to go to the captain , and the captain was a good man . |
18 | Recently , chairman of ICI and Zeneca , said Zeneca was unlikely to go onto the takeover trail : ‘ The number of '80s-style expansionary acquisitions has to some extent levelled off , or declined . |
19 | It may be asked why it was necessary to go to the trouble of carving a model which by all accounts may only have been used once , when the same procedure , in fine day would produce a mould directly . |
20 | Well , when it was thought I was ready to go to a job , I was sent to 101 Cadogan Gardens in Chelsea , near Sloane Street to be told to go down the steps to the tradesmen 's entrance . |
21 | " Two weeks later I was ready to go to a place I did n't know , and where I knew no one . |
22 | Everyone on the Fram was ready to go to the North Pole , to the Arctic . |
23 | The second time was when she was ready to go to the wash-house . |