Example sentences of "[vb -s] to go " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looked a harsh decision , especially when the referee allowed late tackles to go unpunished . |
| 2 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 3 | There were so many journalists covering the Orkney story that they set up a pool system and took it in turns to go in . |
| 4 | He hates the city and longs to go back home . |
| 5 | Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance . |
| 6 | Lip-curling japes ensure as Newt firs tries to evict the compulsively fanciful Gwen , then agrees to go along with her charade , just to make his intended fiancée jealous . |
| 7 | She agrees to go the city council and lodge a complaint . |
| 8 | He generously agrees to go halves on you . |
| 9 | The other passage that makes a most extraordinary effect emotionally is Ellen 's exit after she agrees tO go and collect the new apprentice for Grimes . |
| 10 | He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught . |
| 11 | He confesses his initial involvement to Sutherland , but will not say what happened after the petrol station unless Keifer agrees to go through the same process , starting with the taking of a sleeping draught . |
| 12 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 13 | Since Mr Cod 's disappearance , Max goes to the country to stay with friends whenever Sinitta has to go away . |
| 14 | How deep one has to go , to distinguish not ‘ the man ’ from ‘ the poet ’ but ‘ the-man-who-is-the-poet ’ , appears from Olson 's splendid essay of 1949 , ‘ Granpa , Goodbye ’ . |
| 15 | The matter still has to go before the committee and the county council . |
| 16 | ‘ Be careful not to wake the crowd that has to go to school in the morning . ’ |
| 17 | Lilian Hatton 's got more coats than a perishing film star but she has to go and spend thirty quid on a new outfit for Pertwee 's wedding . |
| 18 | She has to go into very strict training for the week before , and a week on Saturday means we can have the party on the evening after the Championship . ’ |
| 19 | Fundamentalists execrate someone for writing a book that they have n't read , and a famous novelist has to go into hiding for fear of his life . |
| 20 | Two : who has to go to make way for him ? |
| 21 | EVERYTHING has to go , at ridiculous prices . |
| 22 | But let's hope the piana is only an upright : it would be a shame if the child who wants an organ has to go without and it 's hard to see how Santa would manage with a Steinway grand . |
| 23 | Ball was the first amateur and the first Englishman to win the Open , at Prestwick in 1890 , but the kind of loving research that has to go into books of this type invariably makes fascinating reading . |
| 24 | God has to go to the rescue . |
| 25 | He always has to go and lower the tone of a conversation . |
| 26 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
| 27 | It is more a standard , a form of self-reliance , a determination that if one has to go in the end , better be correctly dressed . |
| 28 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 29 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 30 | ‘ It simply has to go , ’ wails Hutchinson . |