Example sentences of "was go [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 With the collapse of the Maudling negotiations , Britain 's next act was to go ahead with the formation of a European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) , along with Austria , Denmark , Norway , Portugal , Sweden and Switzerland .
2 If Maud and Enid thought she was mad and would n't help her , then no one would and the only course of action was to go ahead with the kidnapping plan .
3 The very first week we ever tried it ( just after the sports hall had been built ) , the instruction was to go straight to the sports hall when the bell rang for the start of school .
4 She decided that her best hope was to go up to the belvedere and see if she could find any indication at all that someone else had been involved in Gebrec 's death .
5 The biggest crime of all was to go round to the front of house or into the street in ‘ full slap ’ , as stage make-up was called .
6 The plan was to go down to the south coast and camp .
7 He was to go down to the Supersight factory for some practice with Harley and was then to go with him to a couple of the Continental tournaments . ’
8 The only other alternative was to go back to the cottage , as well he 'd known .
9 His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot .
10 One of the things he was NEVER NEVER allowed to do , the most exciting of them all , was to go out through the garden gate all by himself and explore the world beyond .
11 During more than 20 years in the food machinery business , I was a frequent traveller to the USA , and one of the fringe benefits for me was to go along to the tool department of the local Sears Roebuck store .
12 Time was getting short ; she must talk to Dana , and this time she was going right to the top .
13 I know that father he used to you see if he was going away from the island
14 Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 .
15 The same person the same person all I 'm saying the reason that the meeting was convened this evening and the reason that Paul wants the meeting this evening was to get the views from the public about what they felt was going on at the playhouse and what they would like to see that is n't taken place I think that was the thing behind the meeting and that 's what we 'd like to see right okay . . .
16 Should he ask him what was going on at the top of the Ministry and why they were resurrecting the Zoser case ?
17 Work at Liss pond , for instance , was going on at the moment to cut back overhanging trees which were starving the water of oxygen .
18 It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing .
19 To omit this background is rather like accusing the RAF of bombing innocent women and children in Berlin without mentioning that world war two was going on at the time .
20 ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that .
21 Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ?
22 Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time .
23 Isabel was going on about the boots .
24 so , and then he was going on about the work he 's doing on the
25 She was going on about the grass they 've left on the
26 More importantly , it reflects his laconic style , and what was going on under the surface :
27 Obviously , she thought sourly , checking to make sure that no hanky-panky was going on under the table between Piers and her , or else he was still so infatuated that he could n't bear not to look at her for too long .
28 I lost track of what was going on outside the alley until the officer tapped her shoulder with his revolver and waved it in my face .
29 So what was going on in the way of entertainments and things like that when you came to ?
30 What , what I would always hope though , is that they might go for some help , because even if they decide to separate , and er get support while they 're doing so , they may be able to understand what was going on in the relationship , what they were looking for in each other .
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