Example sentences of "[pers pn] go [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instructors should test every student before allowing them to go solo to make quite sure that they are not seriously affected by reduced ‘ g ’ . |
| 2 | There was no alternative for the guilds than for them to go out to trade for assistance , passing on their additional expenditure to the client . |
| 3 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 4 | One half is telling me to get out of bed whilst the stronger half is telling me to go back to sleep as it does n't matter if I 'm late for school . |
| 5 | I goes upstairs to go to the toilet , and I 've got no carpet anywhere . |
| 6 | I go up to meet Anita , anyway you can get a parking space up there , so I 've turned , drove up there they say I have n't left as early , it was while I was learning |
| 7 | I have written elsewhere ( Bolton , 1982 ) that the basic skill of acting is : ‘ an ability to engage with something outside oneself using an ‘ as if ’ mental set to activate , sustain or intensify that engagement' and I go on to say , ‘ I am using the word ‘ engagement ’ as a central feature because it implies a relationship at an affective level between a person and the world outside him' ( p. 135 ) . |
| 8 | I can not be refuted if I claim that my visual sense-field contains a yellow sense-content , but I can be refuted if I go on to claim that there exists a yellow object that is responsible for my sense-content . |
| 9 | I go on to argue that , despite the underlying regularities , the behaviour of an individual animal is only predictable when a lot is known about the conditions in which the animal has grown up . |
| 10 | Before I go on to deal with the other submissions which have been made , particularly those by Mr. Clough , who appears for the local authority , to support his submission that the order was wrong on the merits , there is one further aspect of the justices ' order and that is the second ground of appeal where it is said that the justices ought to have given the parties the opportunity of addressing them on the question as to whether prohibited steps orders rather than an interim care order , or rather than no order at all , should or could be made . |
| 11 | Having said this , I go on to welcome the show . |
| 12 | Before I go on to talk about the diet and overweight issue let us first consider the other factors that can cause heart disease . |
| 13 | ‘ But before I go on to thank our host , Lord Darlington , I have some small thing I would wish to remove from my chest . |
| 14 | I do n't know why , but he seems to detest me — every time I go round to see him he hisses at me . |
| 15 | I go over to help and find him upright but asleep , his head against the trunk of a tree , the knife , evil-looking with a thirty-centimetre blade , half held in his hand . |
| 16 | ‘ If I go to church I feel that I go more to escape the chores than for any other reason ! ’ she said aloud . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course , I go out to give defenders a hard time — it 's part of my job . |
| 18 | On Tuesday and Friday nights I go out to give bread and coffee to the street kids and try to become their close friend . |
| 19 | Make me a whole man before I go out to take the field with Wales in my hands . |
| 20 | You build up the fire while I go out to milk the cows . |
| 21 | ‘ They benefit from me being here , but they appreciate that I go out to work occasionally , so it wo n't come as such a shock to them when I start to build up to going back to work properly ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm in a successful show , I go out to work every day and I enjoy what I do . |
| 23 | I go out to work this morning at nine o'clock , I come back , I open the kitchen door , four o'clock this afternoon walk into my kitchen empty ! |
| 24 | For the most part I go out to have a good time , and hopefully communicate that to the audience |
| 25 | Even so , I hope that the House will forgive me if , after my speech , I am absent from the Chamber for perhaps a quarter of an hour while I go there to congratulate the winners of training awards . |
| 26 | Well when I go , I went u I just wo n't have washed my hair on Sundays cos if I go there to get mum , I know damn well my hair 's gon na stink , so I might as well not bother . |
| 27 | Occasionally , she 's given me £5 or £10 if I go down to see her and says ‘ Treat yourself and do n't tell Paul . |
| 28 | I have , I go round first , I report all the lame one , and I report all the good ones , you see , but I go round them all before I go down to see him . |
| 29 | I go down to make some tea . |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't remember the last time I had a holiday although I go abroad to work . |