Example sentences of "[was/were] go [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , Micky , ’ said Peter Hickton , ‘ would it help if we were to go through the lines again this evening , just the two of us ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And if rumour were to go about the levels that the T'ang has lost something important and would clear a deck to find it ? |
| 3 | They urged that if the loyalist political parties were to go into the convention without having in reserve the weapon of the general strike , they would be as naked and helpless as Aneurin Bevan , the post-war foreign secretary , had said Britain would be in international councils if she were unilaterally to discard her nuclear weapons . |
| 4 | We were to go into the mountains and spend one night in tents before making our rendezvous the next day . |
| 5 | And how many officers were to go into the flat ? |
| 6 | It would be a tragic loss to theatre if such an important organisation were to go to the wall . |
| 7 | If he were to go to the doctor and ask about it , he might find out — ‘ Mind yer backs ! |
| 8 | Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product . |
| 9 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 10 | They 'd come up to Hampstead to have coffee and we were to go to the Everyman , but the queue was too long . |
| 11 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 12 | They were going through the motions on television but their voices , face and body language were vividly clear — they knew they would lose and they were putting on a brave front . |
| 13 | The kids were going through the practical joke stage and , having exhausted their repertoire on us , were delighted to have a new victim . |
| 14 | No , thought you were going through the erm , plans , this is all the background history to the er , house . |
| 15 | The erm election note 's up , I mean it , we were going through the local candidates through you know when the important dates are ? |
| 16 | I thought you were going through the fucking the bollard ! |
| 17 | Yes , I did in fact erm whilst when we were going through the education proposals erm I did list reductions as John has mentioned , but I did also include the extra valuation for primary staffing that erm has went into our budget and the Liberal Democrats and I think Labour 's originally , which is now included in the combined Council budget . |
| 18 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |
| 19 | Virgin were going into the airline business . |
| 20 | Another was that the child , who had always been sickly and scared , as though all her fortitude were going into the stiff orange fence hanging down her back , seemed to begin another kind of life as soon as it was cut off . |
| 21 | Er and then I heard from Australia that they were going into the engineering exhibition in Melbourne and I offered them er a mobile display and they came back with one or two added ideas and so I changed the specification again . |
| 22 | ‘ The captain said we were going into the Falkland Sound . |
| 23 | It seemed that the verderers were going towards the outlaws ' citadel , not away from it . |
| 24 | We were going towards the sun . ’ |
| 25 | They were going up the stairs now . |
| 26 | You were going with the picture on the outside , well that 's fatal . |
| 27 | The only person that she spoke to on the whole crossing was a young man who fell on top of her as she and he were going down the stairs : he was following her , two steps behind , when the boat gave a violent lurch and he missed his footing and crashed into her , and she too missed her footing , and they both sat down together upon the stairs . |
| 28 | The shadow home secretary , Tony Blair , claimed the plans were going down the road of centralised policing when the reverse was needed . |
| 29 | The shadow home secretary , Tony Blair , claimed the plans were going down the road of centralised policing when the reverse was needed . |
| 30 | I think , you know , you , you were going down the right track , you 've got ta be really . |