Example sentences of "was go [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 2 | ‘ His advice was to go immediately to a Casualty unit at a local hospital . |
| 3 | Brian , alone of us all , knew how difficult it was to go through with a hunger strike . |
| 4 | And one of the reporters came out and er he asked me he 's heard that our decision was to go out for a strike you see . |
| 5 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 6 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 7 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 8 | She saw what was going on from a school bus . |
| 9 | He had left Marler in the bar , saying he was going upstairs for a shower . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the stock market was dominated by the fireworks display at ICI , which finally announced it was going ahead with a demerger . |
| 11 | It is a replacement , we were losing that money erm because the , the water meter was going round at a pound an hour . |
| 12 | And it 's seventy degrees out there in the winter , well I was going round in a T-shirt , they all thought I was mad . |
| 13 | Oh Christ , there he was going round in a circle again . |
| 14 | By the time I was eight-years-old I was going around with a prostitute . |
| 15 | So that was going alright for a while . |
| 16 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |
| 17 | Occasionally with him she had the sense she was going down through a hole in the floor . |
| 18 | Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil . |
| 19 | He went back into the flat , grabbed his coat , told an astonished Frau Nordern that he was going out for a moment and , without waiting for any protests , dashed out and joined Bodo at the foot of the stairs . |
| 20 | She 'd told her husband she was going out for a walk with their pet dog , Kirsty , when she was found the dog was still clinging to her . |
| 21 | During the previous weeks there had been fine weather , and after a day in the office Paul would keep his mother company in the evenings for a little while , then , as they had nothing to say to one another , he would tell her he was going out for a breath of air . |
| 22 | Here I am eighteen years old , and in a great state of elation because I was going out with a boy . |
| 23 | My mother says he did n't train enough because he was going out with a girl called Ticky Hinton . |
| 24 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 25 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 26 | She was going out to a party , I got a bucket of water , threw it over her head ! |
| 27 | She was going out to a party . |
| 28 | She was gone again in a flash , leaving me faintly confused and in doubt about my capacity to judge people . |