Example sentences of "was go [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The primary school curriculum was to go beyond the basics of English and mathematics , which in any case should be seen in the wider context of other subjects . |
| 2 | He said it was to go with the wagon to Ramsey , and we put it in among the logs , well wedged in . |
| 3 | As he was washing , she told him that he was to go to the market for a pig . |
| 4 | And all they wanted it to do was to go around the corner to Marygate for the winter and then we s got the same in the spring to bring it back , but by that time the python was a lot bigger . |
| 5 | It was appropriate warm-up garb , as the Run Barbados Marathon was to go from the point of this historical settlement ( established 1627 ) to Sam Lord 's Castle , built with the profits from a wrecker 's booty . |
| 6 | Owen was going through the accounts with Nikos trying to find pockets of money which might still be emptied . |
| 7 | What else he had failed to tell her was that there was a fortune at stake — and that the custodian of it was this Bluebeard , this marauding monster … who , even now , while she was going through the motions of hating him , was turning her body to liquid honey . |
| 8 | Tom Tedder and Corbett Farraday were muttering by the door which led into the main school ; the headmaster , towering yet crumpled , was surrounded by a little group of teachers in the centre of his hall ; and by the door leading to the boarding quarters Mrs Crumwallis was going over the events of the night before with her cook , Mrs Garfitt . |
| 9 | I looked as if I was reading the paper , but my mind was going over the events at Ingard House , and the curious discrepancy in the stories about Andrew Stavanger . |
| 10 | I 'd read about , I read erm read in erm some paper or other not so very long ago , about erm a funeral and the that was going along the road of course , and they came to a to a erm hotel and they were och , they were going for miles and miles and miles and they went into this hotel and the they party the funeral party went into the hotel and had a good few drinks and they were well away when they came out and they they they went away without the coffin , for two miles , two miles before they discovered that they did n't have the coffin . |
| 11 | He knew perfectly well that the software was going into the Ministry of Defence , he had not asked to what use it would be put when it was installed , and he certainly hoped there would be more of the same . |
| 12 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I fired at the car because it was going into the rest of my team , endangering their lives . ’ |
| 14 | I placed my pipes and rucksack on the back seat of the jeep and informed the driver that I was going into the orchard for a last look round . |
| 15 | There was an awareness that much effort was going into the production of teaching aids but also that there was some duplication of effort . |
| 16 | He was going for the green on the short par-4 . |
| 17 | I thought he was going for the interview for the job |
| 18 | It was down the pasture near Lartington on a day during the last war , when the weather was very bad and I was going for the bus to Barnard Castle . |
| 19 | The worst part of the job was going on the beat in winter . |
| 20 | Silly , was n't it , when all I was doing was going down the road to the Post Office ? |
| 21 | I suppose he was going down the hill to Moorgate Road , there 's nowhere else to go from Albert Terrace . ’ |
| 22 | Marco was going down the steps to the airlock . |
| 23 | Marco was going down the steps to the airlock . |
| 24 | So are big ones : Claire was going to the south of France . |
| 25 | Hearing that Peggy van Praagh was going to the south of France with a friend and had a spare seat in her car , he asked if he might come too . |
| 26 | He was going to the cinema for the second time that week , with his beautiful lady , his Sweetheart , who looked and smelt and sometimes spoke like the real-life star of a Hollywood movie . |
| 27 | Yes , an and what really upset the erm the , the members of the scheme and the pensioners was the fact that the money was going to actually erm fund the redundancy per programme er for the business and was going to the benefit of the employees and none of it was going to the actual pensioners . |
| 28 | Your analogy would be more accurate if you 'd talked of a mechanic saying he was going to the boot of my car to check the battery , having of course meant to say the bonnet . |
| 29 | Yesterday Splash said : ‘ I was going to the conference in Stornoway anyhow , so no doubt I might bump into him . |
| 30 | Oh you was going to the fridge for that was you ? |