Example sentences of "[was/were] go [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her long black tresses were to go and her hair restyled with a soft perm . |
| 2 | I told Cowslip we were going before I left the burrow . " |
| 3 | We 've got this squat , see , in Gloucester — well , we did have it , but the council took it back — but Vince has got friends in Tewkesbury , they 'll know about places , and that 's where we were going when I fell ill . ’ |
| 4 | Well if you 've got a cloth er parcel with , with , wrapped in cloth you know everybody knew where you were going and I did n't like people to know I was going to , been to the pawnshop . |
| 5 | In some of the more elaborate biplanes it was not always easy to tell which way the loads were going and it was a stock joke at one time that the way to check the rigging of a certain aircraft was to put a canary between the wings ; if it got out something was wrong . |
| 6 | Would they stop a great painter painting just because his eyes were going and his brushwork was n't as good ? |
| 7 | ‘ No , sir , but the food and clothes were gone when I next went that way , ’ Barrymore told me . |
| 8 | He called on the ANC to understand that , as he put it , their Eastern European " brother comrades " were gone and their political philosophy was dead . |
| 9 | After the 0/3 bottle of Nat.mur. given every other day beginning with 0/1 , the warts were gone and she was definitely more open and communicative . |
| 10 | When they were gone and he was alone with the field supervisor , Bergson came across and stood there , no more than an arm 's length from the man . |
| 11 | And then they were gone and he was lying in the snow of a mountainside , alone and cold . |
| 12 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 13 | When Anne had tentatively broached the subject of where Kathleen was to go when she left hospital , she said , ‘ Doctor Boland says I 've not got to worry about that . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't ask ; I told Gina where I was going but I 'd better not stay too long . ’ |
| 15 | No , Claire was going but she had , did n't have time on the way back |
| 16 | And the , the chef 's were squeezing the custard carton and it was going cos it was the last and the |
| 17 | He says the state of the damage shows how fast the car was going when it crashed . |
| 18 | Oh well it was going when I was , you were talking all the way back from the squash club |
| 19 | I was n't going to ask him where he was going because he 'd only lie . |
| 20 | And I was , I was laughing and it , everyone was going because it was Patrick Swayze but I was still seeing Whoopie Goldberg ! |
| 21 | I just like , I just like , I know places , like I was told when I was meeting the girls yesterday , I did n't know what road I was going on I was just telling like , people names of the pubs and luckily this , like , bloke behind me getting on the bus , said oh you need a like , a seventy P or something and that 's when I knew where I was going and everyone 's like telling me where to get off , everyone gestures to me . |
| 22 | The concern , though , was always with where the music was going and which of its layers were propelling it , so that the occasional sudden stillnesses became a real opening-up of another dimension in the music 's workings and vision , not just a refuelling stop for the orchestra . |
| 23 | You know , he would keep citing statistics on how their recruiting was going and what they were doing . |
| 24 | The rain fell against his face as he watched her march out into the dusk , narrow shoulders pulled resolutely back as if she were someone who knew exactly where she was going and what she thought about things . |
| 25 | I had time to think about where I was going and what I had become . |
| 26 | He liked to tell anyone who would listen where he was going and what he was doing , and so my mother found his silences ominously strange . |
| 27 | Heasked me about how the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme was going and what level I 'd reached |
| 28 | Where she was going and what happened that summer of 1983 are still a mystery . |
| 29 | I did n't know where I was going and I was scared . |
| 30 | And he was going and I was going the mother what ? |