Example sentences of "[adv] go [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pills and potions are only going to remove the symptoms . |
| 2 | dude , cos I 'm only going to get the piss taken out of my hair are n't I ? |
| 3 | You ca n't possibly have it on a verb , and that 's another little rule you might like to think of , that you 're only going to get the apostrophe on a noun , and you will never get an apostrophe on a pronoun . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , they 're different , but you 're only going to have the variation on three of the strings ; the three plain strings are going to feel pretty similar . |
| 5 | I was merely going to ask the Chief why he sent for me this morning . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I know you 're all going to take the piss out of me if I tell you what I honestly thought . ’ |
| 7 | My granddaughter is safe at our table with Jane , and in a moment we 're all going to watch the firework display . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think we were all going to pay the price for that ’ , said a member of one of Perth 's oldest families . |
| 9 | Mildred did her best to arrange the bucket hanging from the back , but it was obviously going to spill the minute they took off , she put the bucket back onto the window-sill , climbed onto the broom first , and then settled the bucket in her lap . |
| 10 | Yeah , that 's what Alan said they were away were n't they , she 'd only gone to walk the dog |
| 11 | ‘ Not goin' to bite the half-crown , are you ? ’ |
| 12 | DUDLEY Moore is finally going to catch the chickens in the Tesco advert . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm finally going to meet the legend … ‘ |
| 14 | On July 23 Bush signalled US willingness partially to relax the ban on Iraqi oil exports , saying that the USA was " not going to see the suffering of innocent women or children " . |
| 15 | We are not going to see the likes of Philip Hardman again . ’ |
| 16 | It was against my will but I felt there was no use fighting it , because the social worker had many things against me , like my not going to see the baby , and my being in prison — there were many things against me . |
| 17 | For a moment , Sara argued with him , and then seeing he was not going to leave the room unless she went with him , unwillingly she followed him out . |
| 18 | But we 're not going to disaffiliate WWF-Malaysia , and they 're not going to leave the WWF family . " |
| 19 | Anyway , ’ added Dexter , ‘ if you 're not going to arrest the Mills girl , then perhaps you should go for someone else . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm not going to lose the baby ? ’ |
| 21 | J.B. You know it 's positive discrimination in that and boys will not be allowed in so they can have , you know , an enjoyable night , being girls but not with boys there to say , ‘ oh , yea , you 've got nice legs ’ and all this , so that salves my conscience a bit and I was n't very worried about it , but I wo n't have beauty demonstrations and things in the club 'cause I 'm not going to reinforce the image that boys already have of the girls . |
| 22 | Mrs Frizzell had carefully cultivated her , too , but she let it pass , while Margaret complained that all four children had the measles and that she was going to have to leave them alone if the babysitter did not come soon ; she was not going to miss the dance at the Pinetree Club for worlds , and was dear Donna coming ? |
| 23 | If it had a secret she would do her best to discover it and she was not going to miss the trail across the Mountains of the Moon to what was undoubtedly the greatest small picture in the world . |
| 24 | For a start Claridges Hotel , in London 's Mayfair , where the Russians would be staying , was fully bugged by MI5 on a permanent basis ( because so many ‘ interesting ’ foreign guests stayed there ) and it was certainly not going to miss the opportunity of eavesdropping on the two leaders . |
| 25 | Her mother was not going to miss the opportunity of rebuking her . |
| 26 | ‘ Are you not going to lock the door again ? |
| 27 | He knows without admitting it to himself that the Radio 's not going to transmit the opera . |
| 28 | It pretends that the court is able to investigate those reasons in great depth , whereas in practice it is not able to do so , and in any event that investigation is not going to save the marriage . |
| 29 | He had no intention of ‘ Gothicizing ’ the neighbouring buildings , and he was not going to demolish the State Paper Office for this reason , as Palmerston had implied , although like the other competitors he had assumed that it would be removed . |
| 30 | Obviously we are not going to cure the blight of centuries in a few years . |