Example sentences of "[pron] to go ahead " in BNC.

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1 But Cecil , putting his prestige on the line , and buoyed up by favourable results in a number of local newspaper polls , persuaded them to go ahead .
2 Do we want them to go ahead without us .
3 He told me to go ahead and finish it . ’
4 He told me to go ahead quickly . ’
5 Erm I know it 's easier said than done sometimes but er it has to be your decision because even if you went ahead and were confirmed , we were tal talking about the idea of sometimes parents bring pressure on them on you to go ahead and do it and be confirmed , erm when perhaps you 're not do n't feel ready for it and it takes a lot of courage to stand up and say No I 'm not ready .
6 ‘ I bet she 'll tell you to go ahead .
7 Having told me that everyone was advising him to record it , I told him to go ahead and do it , but not with me .
8 ‘ He 's trying to get her into partnership with him to go ahead with his holiday village . ’
9 Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May .
10 Newman examined the five prints , handed them to Paula and lit a cigarette when Manningham told him to go ahead .
11 Nevertheless , one of their licencees had requested this and , since it was a lucrative contract , Bernard had told him to go ahead and produce it .
12 It 'd have been better if I 'd told him to go ahead up against the tree .
13 We entered the Manston circuit and found two Stirlings demanding emergency landings and I recognised the voice of one of my lads , Desmond Ince , and I told him to go ahead and take my turn to land .
14 My niece was visiting for the day and she asked if she could have a drink of orange juice so I told her to go ahead and help herself .
15 Anna decided that she must not profit by it in any way and consulted Constanza — she always did : You are my chief heir and it will affect you — Constanza told her to go ahead .
16 As they stepped on to the landing he signalled her to go ahead while he hung back so they should not be seen arriving in the newsroom together .
17 ‘ Perhaps we should allow her to go ahead with her virtuous deed .
18 That has been our major worry and I think for us now to go away and just allow it to go ahead , twenty years on , without any improvements , without the link road and without improvements to Hill I think is an abdication of our duties and I really do think that .
19 They point out that Parliament has yet to approve the changes which would allow it to go ahead .
20 Hundreds of residents of the Woolston area , the local parish council and the borough council oppose the gipsy camp plan but Cheshire wants it to go ahead on the site , off Manchester Road , near the junction with the M6 .
21 I 'll tell 'em to go ahead . ’
22 There is now way that as a company we would allow anything to go ahead that would be harmful .
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