Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv prt] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this night you said you 'd gone up to feed them ? |
| 2 | made me laugh cos we 'd gone up to house tonight , he said he was making a real effort to be good and to and he , when he got up to house today he goes I was doing a really gentlemanly thing and saying oh thank you for a really nice evening , I started laughing well what was I supposed to ? |
| 3 | The Mendip Television mast had arrived and we 'd gone over to colour . |
| 4 | Gerry was taught to drive in nineteen forty six in the States , where they , they gone , they 'd gone over to total automatic , and he despised manual gears , thought they were a ridiculous waste of time and effort , said you want to concentrate on the , on the road , not on the car , but then you see Gerry improved himself , he was a |
| 5 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 6 | Or maybe he 'd gone back to patch things up with his fiancée ? |
| 7 | A neighbour told him she 'd gone off to see her daughter that morning-that would be the Thursday — and would be back in a couple of days . ’ |
| 8 | We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was . |
| 9 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 10 | he 'd gone out to help her . |
| 11 | He 'd gone out to play tennis ; then he had a lunch meeting in the city . |
| 12 | But then , she thought guiltily , maybe if I 'd gone out to work I would n't have interfered so much in their lives . |
| 13 | I had n't been feeling too well all day , but after opening-time when Toby 'd gone out to get the wine I started to feel better and began to dress . |
| 14 | Perhaps she 'd gone out to get some shopping , he thought . |
| 15 | Unless he 'd gone out to get her something or other . |
| 16 | In the meantime all we have is the popular version that Blake was befriended by a 32-year-old Irishman , Sean Bourke , who at the time was coming to the end of a seven-year sentence and was living in the prison hostel just inside the perimeter wall of the prison but allowed to go out to work each day on parole . |
| 17 | But it 's no way , I mean it was a really wet morning at quarter to seven , it had been raining , and he was right behind a lorry , and he , he , the lorry went to go one way and the he did n't go back because he knew he was going one way and the guy was going the other , he just started to go round to go to the left and bike was just there , he had no way of seeing him or he . |
| 18 | Trouble was , Sidney decided to go back to get the sentry 's rifle , obviously thinking it might come in useful . |
| 19 | and Jehovah proceeded to go down to see what they see , to see the city and they tell that the sons of man have gods , after that Jehovah said look there are one people and there is one language for the north and this is they start to do , why now there is nothing that they may have in mind to do that will be unobtainable for them , come now let us go down and their confuse their language , he 'd be speaking to angels now would n't he |
| 20 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 21 | She turned over and appeared to go back to sleep . |
| 22 | That is , while they did not start courses at the institutions we studied , they did go on to take a course elsewhere . |
| 23 | Sean was reportedly less chuffed about doing this than doing an ‘ ollie shove-it ’ , a very hard skateboarding manoeuvre — however , he did go on to break his leg in two places soon afterwards when he fell off said contraption . |
| 24 | One of the survivors told me that her mother " never worked " , but it later emerged that she did go out to clean offices . |
| 25 | Suddenly , one of the organisers called my number , I had to take off my socks and shoes as you had to do the jump in bare feet and I had to go over to get weighed again on different scales to make sure I was using the correct cord ( they were very safety conscious about every aspect of the jump ) . |
| 26 | Jaswinder Kaur , a Sikh girl from such a family , described , in Oppression of South Asian Women Vol I , 1977 , what she had to go through to get to college : |
| 27 | This meant that , once the prosecution had established the use of force , it had to go on to prove that the victim had ‘ resisted to the utmost from the inception to the close of the attack . ’ |
| 28 | Then the building specifications had to go out to tender . |
| 29 | In the end , I had to go out to milk my goats . |
| 30 | It was not about special food for diabetics , but that there was no food to give them and family members had to go out to get something because there was nothing available and these were insulin-dependant diabetics . |