Example sentences of "[verb] go [adv] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to ensure that we build on the success of the first six months of NHS reforms so that no one will want to go anywhere but to his or her most immediately available hospital to receive NHS treatment . |
| 2 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 3 | She wants to go ahead but she 's afraid she ca n't manage . |
| 4 | He tried to go solo but was quickly apprehended and subsequently jailed . |
| 5 | An elegant example of this is La Bourgoise d'Orliens , " The townswoman of Orléans " , in which the husband , a merchant , suspecting his wife of having a clerk as a lover ( which she has ) tests her by pretending to go away but returning in the guise of a clerk . |
| 6 | Well initially we we 're we 're going to we 're going to go nationally but very quickly we 're gon na see where erm our strengths and weaknesses are erm and we know already where the erm the large market is and once we 've had a couple of T V spots to make it known nationally erm in the end of course we 're gon na have to erm probably concentrate on those areas which erm er which 'll give us the best return . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , ’ Karl smiled , ‘ I would have preferred to go sooner but yes I can stay . |
| 8 | And should 've gone abroad but I would n't go I er I er I had this position offered in the electricity works here then |
| 9 | The truth was I really fancied going there but I did n't even have the money to bunk the tube . |
| 10 | I was to have gone also but declined . |
| 11 | Rachel Keith would like to have gone there but her mother died and instead she went to see her father to try and effect a reconciliation , but her old father would n't let her over the door . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'd love to go outdoors but land is so expensive , ’ laments John , 46 , a naturist of 12 years experience . |
| 13 | And er I I do n't know where they 've gone now but I had some lovely photographs of these flats . |
| 14 | Our manager even said the criticism had gone worldwide but I do n't think we are quite that important . ’ |
| 15 | By now I think mum and dad had gone home but they 'd rang Ian and he 'd come straight to the hospital and sat with me . |
| 16 | Both had gone inside but it was her husband Bailey who set the fire . |
| 17 | ‘ The wedding had gone beautifully but our honeymoon was ruined . |
| 18 | She complained of blisters on her hale glaring days they worked away like this , too tired and stiff at night to want to go anywhere but to bed . |
| 19 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 20 | Well he 's gone away but he will be back . |