Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] go the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She must be careful to betray it as little as possible if the interview were to go the way she wanted .
2 My job as local organizer was going the bakeries collecting the dues where there was no collector and dealing with complaints .
3 As this review was going the House of Lords has permitted the citation of Hansard ; Mr Bennion will have to start on his next edition .
4 The war was going the way of neither side .
5 The way things were going the enemy seemed very determined to push the Brigade off this high ground .
6 He realises that Access make money through usury , yet he felt that 25 per cent a month was going the pace a bit .
7 It was never , as we have seen , the Labour government 's intention that the independence of India should be the prelude to a general nunc dimittis , and this disposes of the plausible notion that once India was gone the pointlessness of holding on to the rest of the dependent empire , supposedly acquired to protect the sea routes to Bombay , was immediately perceived .
8 For two and a half months Saragossa , a poorly fortified town , resisted a good siege train , and when the walls were gone the inhabitants fought in the streets .
9 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 .
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