Example sentences of "[pers pn] was go to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One ca n't give cast-iron guarantees , just as you ca n't give me guarantees about my safety if I was to go to Birmingham , ’ Mr Thomas replied . |
| 2 | The idea was , I was to go to the foster parents , stay there until the baby was born and mobile , and then move to a flat . |
| 3 | On that first day I had little thought to spare for Parma itself , but gradually I came to realize how fortunate I was to go to school in a city that was both beautiful and intensely interesting . |
| 4 | Detective-Sergeant Prentice had specifically requested my presence and left instructions that I was to go to Queen 's Road and not Whipps Cross Hospital Mortuary . |
| 5 | They wished to keep themselves secret and therefore I was to go to Mordecai . |
| 6 | I was went to . |
| 7 | ‘ I was wondering when I was going to be let free to do the work of the Lord . ’ |
| 8 | This meant that there was now effectively a time limit on how long I was going to be able to stay in my broom cupboard . |
| 9 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 10 | I was trying to make out what sort of creature I was going to be living with ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew I was going to be tough to beat this week . |
| 12 | That summer I thought I was going to be able to work in the shop full-time up until I started at St. Martin 's School of Art in the autumn . |
| 13 | I realised I was going to be nicked . |
| 14 | I was going to be moved whether I liked it or not . |
| 15 | I was going to be chairman and chief executive and Bob Clarke , my chief executive , was going to run the food side . |
| 16 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 17 | Once , I was going to be a bridesmaid in a blue dress , and when I needed new shoes before the wedding , I refused to have blue shoes , insisting on brown ones . |
| 18 | I remember imagining I was going to the market to buy food , and suddenly felt this agonising pain in my bottom , and saw my skirt all ripped , and blood — I thought I was revolted , and yet it was followed by masturbation . |
| 19 | She was screaming at me that I was going to prison , ’ said Falati . |
| 20 | I did n't know then that I was going to be a politician . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I was going to that night of the dance and then I thought it was a bad time with it being Christmas and the New Year coming right afterwards . |
| 22 | So , I thought I was going to be a freelancer — what a fool . |
| 23 | So , I was going to be living in a district with a Wholeperson 's Clinic , and a Funeral Home up the street . |
| 24 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted . |
| 25 | If I had thought I was going to be Prime Minister , I would have taken more trouble to understand the various theories ’ . |
| 26 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . ' |
| 28 | At one point in the turbulence I felt certain I was going to be air-sick and the very thought was unsettling , because I knew we would have to write and file our first flight story from Calgary within an hour or two , and that story had to be sent , come what may , including sickness . |
| 29 | I was going to the dogs . ‘ |
| 30 | I was going to be lazier than I had ever been in my life ! |