Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] go [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her parents were due to go away on holiday at the start of the following week . |
| 2 | Some contributors to Close Up were prepared to go even further . |
| 3 | As has consistently been the case , Paisley and other DUP politicians were prepared to go further than the Official Unionists and the provincial leadership of the Orange Order . |
| 4 | ‘ Martin Edwards then called and suggested that his club were prepared to go very high for Hirst and that other players could be involved if we were interested . |
| 5 | With a statutory duty to promote standardisation , the nationalised Boards were willing to go ahead with these schemes , paying for the conversion of consumers ' apparatus as well as of their own mains , even where the returns to themselves were not adequate . |
| 6 | If I may refer you back to your note of our meeting on 18 January you recommended a more hardline wording for 15.1 and 15.2 on the main course , which ( given the less-direct competitive nature of the components ) we were willing to go more gently with on the video and Activity Book . |
| 7 | Clusters and nerves well again I always felt that nerves were supposed to go away when you got good at things , now I 'm pleased to discover that is n't true . |
| 8 | But , if Britain pulled out , the French were likely to go ahead anyway . |
| 9 | And the lads were glad to go there . |
| 10 | A meeting spot of note for lovers , but they , those lovers , were all gone now ; just her and the closing night , the street lights on and a soft rain falling . |
| 11 | Her friends were all gone now , even the White Russians . |
| 12 | They were all going there . |
| 13 | Only 16 per cent of the 7,000 voters polled by Gallup for the BBC were happy to go ahead and let Parliament ratify it . |
| 14 | The early 1800s produced a wealth of eccentric houses and cottages ornées by the seaside , built by the frustrated rich who were unable to go abroad during the Napoleonic Wars . |
| 15 | Over the years , many children from underprivileged families have been able to join youth clubs from which they were able to go away on camps during the Glasgow fair fortnight and at Easter and in September . |
| 16 | ‘ If for any reason the runners were able to go faster than us in the marathon , I 'm sure they would organise it differently for them . ’ |
| 17 | When the moon came up , a full moon that illuminated the wet stony surface of the Waste so that it shone like a polished shield , they were able to go more quickly amongst the dappled and striped shadows of the trees . |
| 18 | Unsurprisingly , Rugby missed their putt , falling behind when they must have felt they were odds-on to go ahead . |
| 19 | sold it now , different people got it and they 've gone to Amer going to America yeah that was them , ever so nice girl she is and her children , two lovely girls and a boy of about sixteen I suppose , lovely girl she was , and they were frightened to go anywhere . |
| 20 | In the capitalist West new markets opened up , and the industries that had become so busy and productive in the war effort were ready to go again in a postwar boom . |
| 21 | Usually on Pack Meeting nights he waited until Brownie Bells had been sung and the Brownies were ready to go home before joining Brown Owl , but one evening , when the Brownies were engaged on various activities of their own , he came across to Brown Owl , and they walked about , talking earnestly . |
| 22 | joined us just as we were ready to go overseas , he had just come out of er Flight School and of course his heart was set on being a fighter pilot and here he became a co-pilot so he was a very disappointed man and he did not stand up well in combat so there were n't too many missions , about five and I bounced him off the crew and would n't fly with him any more and got then other co-pilots to fly with me from our Squadron . |
| 23 | The meeting also approved changes to voting arrangements , abolishing certain procedures first employed in 1988 party elections [ see p. 36137 ] , including the controversial queue-voting system ( whereby voters in primary elections queued publicly behind a picture of their preferred candidate ) and the rule under which candidates obtaining 70 per cent of the votes in such primaries were entitled to go forward unopposed . |
| 24 | The concert by Prince was due to go ahead at Blenheim Palace last August . |
| 25 | In a television interview , James Baker , the Secretary of State , said the Panama commander , General Maxwell Thurman , had been sent an order last Tuesday morning , the day of the coup , requiring him to seize General Noriega if there were an opportunity to do so ‘ without risking American life and without open military involvement , then he was free to go ahead ’ . |
| 26 | She was free to go as close to the man 's music as she dared , to stare as long as she wanted , to dance on the kerb right beside him where he seemed so tall he almost blacked out the sky , and the music so overwhelming you could hear nothing else . |
| 27 | Hewlett-Packard officials say they were pleasantly surprised at Sun Microsystems Inc 's Tsunami and SunDragon pricing , as the company was prepared to go even lower on retail price for its new PA RISC 7100-based 700 systems — see page three . |
| 28 | Objectively , Karen was prepared to go almost as far as her predecessor , and her eager greed more than made up for the thrill I used to get from subjecting dogged , cow-like Manuela to the same routines . |
| 29 | Chapman insisted that he was interested only in the best players , and he was prepared to go anywhere to get them . |
| 30 | CHANNEL 4 boss Michael Grade claims the station could double its viewing figures if it was prepared to go downmarket . |