Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as well you agreed to go quietly when Kenneth suggested it was time you went to bed ; though apparently he and Hamish practically had to carry you upstairs , and the whole way up you were muttering something vile about Lewis being thrown naked into a tub of starving Elephant Leeches . ’ |
| 2 | His latest speech seemed to go further than he had ever gone before in advocating force to achieve the kind of England he wanted . |
| 3 | And er I suppose he he 'd gone there when he was about thirteen fourteen and er he came from a family from Where was it . |
| 4 | I think somebody brought that in from er he he 'd gone along when I was up here a few weeks back . |
| 5 | Eh she was away I think when , or she 'd gone out when called in upon here a fortnight ago . |
| 6 | They came to tell me that you 'd gone under before they could help you . |
| 7 | On one occasion , it began to go up when she wanted to go down ; another time , it refused to open and kept her prisoner for half an hour . |
| 8 | W what happened when things began to go down as regards the ships then ? |
| 9 | When I was a little older I enjoyed going there because I was sure of meeting some of the boys I liked , but on these matters Don Cattabianchi was very strict . |
| 10 | We needed to go faster so we left him in a field , alive or dead . |
| 11 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 12 | ‘ When my father , six months before his death , saw the car for the first time at the Paris show — where he decided to go even though his health was not good — he fell in love with it immediately . |
| 13 | Thankfully , I decided to go home before I really cracked up . |
| 14 | I was quite impressed by this and since he was going back to England that evening I decided to go back as soon as I 'd seen him off . |
| 15 | The Stranglers started going downhill when they took to releasing piss-poor cover versions as singles . |
| 16 | they 're all really like when I , I did n't have a travel card , they all started going just cos I did n't have a travel card . |
| 17 | The bases in India , of which Surat founded in 1611 and Madras founded in 1642 were the most important , kept going even when the Company in London was at its lowest ebb and the current stock had sunk to 60 per cent of its original price . |
| 18 | Yes we kept going there when yeah . |
| 19 | In asserting the supremacy of the Moldavian constitution and laws throughout the republic 's territory , and that " laws and other normative acts " would take effect in Moldavia only subject to ratification by the Moldavian Supreme Soviet , it appeared to go further than the Russian and Uzbek sovereignty declarations and to be closer in spirit to the more radical declarations of the Baltic and Transcaucasian republics , since it did not appear to allow for arbitration in the event of conflict with the USSR Constitution and laws . |
| 20 | You got a very good committee , dedicated committee erm who , you see the young trainees were sent to the technical colleges and you see , erm some of them did go on if they graduated to Stanford Hall , but I mean those that went to technical college , we used to have to get the committee to sit in at the examinations . |
| 21 | At an April 18 press conference in London , Hamdi declined to describe the crisis as a " famine " — a point of contention with donor countries — but he did go further than previous official statements in referring to the need for emergency aid and saying that the UN World Food Programme had a free mandate to organize the operation . |
| 22 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 23 | We did it inside and then had to go outside cos it was raining . |
| 24 | ‘ He 'd schooled very well and although I had hoped for a lead for a bit longer , we had to go on where we did . |
| 25 | She went down Wednesday she had to go late because the builder does n't come very early so she did n't go to B and Q until the afternoon , and she was going around , or Do-it-all , one of them , she was going around looking around and then as soon as she looked out it was half past five ! |
| 26 | The doctors were very keen you know very keen , and if actually if they had to go anywhere when there was trouble you know say you 'd got haemorrhage or anything like that they were supposed to report it you know . |
| 27 | I had to go out so I gave your script to her to give to you . |
| 28 | Any woman who had to go further than this and shoulder the burden of full-time work in addition to her domestic duties was often pitied by other married women . |
| 29 | No , no , no you 've got it the wrong way round , I went , I brought you here and then I had to go back cos I was in the Royal Marine Police |
| 30 | Karen had to go back because that evening there was a Union meeting at the factory and after that , her meeting with Pete and the journalist from the New York Times . |