Example sentences of "[modal v] go [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Balancing the tray , to which Mrs Darrell had kindly added the plate containing those cream cakes which she had not managed to devour , she heard her say to Dr Neil , ‘ You really ought to go into society again , my dear .
2 Expansion and contraction of awareness may be interdependent , so that ‘ Be aware ’ would not , for example , pronounce waking good but sleeping bad ; when exhaustion is blurring awareness one can go so far as to say ‘ You ought to go to sleep ’ , although only for the sake of waking with refreshed awareness tomorrow .
3 Yeah , cheerio i n't Christine ought to go to bed ?
4 Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were
5 " You could say I grew up in service — and so it seemed almost natural that Sarah and I should go into service . "
6 ‘ Oh , Mary Gates , ’ she said to herself , ‘ you should go into business for yourself . ’
7 The machine manual should go into detail on this but Pat 's sketch shows the two possibilities for going wrong , and explains the correct way with notes on adjustment for a typical domestic machine .
8 CA says its customers are particularly keen to see its IDMS and Datacom database products — out at 5,000 development sites and with 50,000 applications — ported to open systems — these should go into beta on HP next January .
9 It was simply incomprehensible that some of these writers , teachers , students , and independently minded landowners should go beyond reformism to full-blown visions of social transformation .
10 Most schools given control over their budget have been able to make savings on heating and lighting without much difficulty — savings which should go to education in the classroom .
11 This same recipe provides an instructive example of the way in which Dr de Pomiane thinks we should go to work improving a primitive dish to our own taste while preserving its character intact .
12 They decided that they should go to work as no more news could be expected yet and Maureen hurried first to see Sarah .
13 Gifts should go to Convoy Aid coordinator Marlene Wyldbore , at 22 Harringay Crescent , Darlington .
14 Abdulrahman was a member of a lineage which had a reputation for learning , and hence was vulnerable to arguments that his children ( he had one son and six daughters ) should go to school .
15 Boys should go to school because they need the skills to get on in the world , because they will spend their lives moving between household and family and the institutions of state and nation .
16 The Libyan government was indeed anxious , as a matter of principle , that girls should go to school after the age of twelve .
17 Diana suggested that her children should go to school with other youngsters .
18 So then we had a bit of a wonder whether or not Christopher should go to school .
19 She says they should go to army camps .
20 If the claim is for less than £500 , the district judge of the county court will automatically refer the matter to arbitration , unless there are good reasons why the matter should go to trial instead .
21 The issue before this House was whether the action should go to proof before answer or be dismissed and proof before answer was allowed .
22 In that case , Adèle should go to boarding school . ’
23 He said that if in future I needed to sell oriental porcelain I should go to M. Bourget , in the rue de Berri , and mention Helmut 's name .
24 Any reward should go to charity .
25 However , she was devoted to her more unconventional father , who agreed that she should go to art school , and in 1910 she became a student under Henry Tonks [ q.v. ] at the Slade School of Art .
26 The only logical conclusion was that they should go to bed .
27 It 's 1.30 a.m. and I should go to bed , long day tomorrow .
28 Should go to bed earlier .
29 He said , ‘ I expect you 've got a busy day tomorrow , ( as a hint to the guest that he should go to bed ) .
30 Ah , you 're not well , you should go to bed . ’
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