Example sentences of "[vb past] go [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 2 | The exercise took 12 months to complete and the atmosphere of uncertainty did little to boost morale among the ranks of BT 's middle managers , even though thousands opted to go under a generous voluntary redundancy programme . |
| 3 | ‘ I would have said what I have if we 'd gone to a fun-fair , ’ said Helen . |
| 4 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 5 | It was as if he 'd gone into a different world . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I decided to go to a financial adviser , ’ continues Angie , ‘ He advised me to remortgage with a lender with a lower standard rate and for £20,000 more than we had originally borrowed when we bought the house . |
| 7 | Erm again I , I ca n't help but s er er getting slightly digressed but it is rather interesting that John Major this year decided to go for a general election before the local elections . |
| 8 | Financial software house Quality Software Products Holdings Plc has taken the plunge and decided to go for a full listing on the UK stock exchange ‘ to exploit the business opportunities ’ presented by its newly-launched Universal OLAS product ( CI No 2,116 ) . |
| 9 | Having always liked the idea of living in the country , Geoff decided to go for a country-style kitchen . |
| 10 | Darren started going to a special school , but in ‘ 84 my drinking did start getting out of hand and I was pushing Darren from pillar to post . |
| 11 | Secondly , about half of those who did attend for worship chose to go to a Nonconformist chapel . |
| 12 | Although he passed his 11-plus he chose to go to a technical school as it would be more art orientated . |
| 13 | At Bicester it hit a roundabout but kept going with a flat tyre heading for Milton Keynes . |
| 14 | It was as close as Jane dared go to a direct suggestion of murder , though she could not resist one more enticement . |
| 15 | The drivers , said to go for a small fixed-price fee , will be delivered in a binary-only distribution and are not covered by a warranty or maintenance agreement . |
| 16 | The drivers , said to go for a small fixed-price fee , will be delivered in a binary-only distribution and are not covered by a warranty or any maintenance agreement , and may not be sold . |
| 17 | The road to the Fire Court looked quite straightforward really ; it seemed as if you had to go past a large lake and on down a narrow , windy mountain road with houses dotted on each side . |
| 18 | Say you had to go to a dental appointment . |
| 19 | But this premise was there at that time and by oh I had to go to a great extent on a number of visits and they er granted it me on compassionate grounds and there 's er I was only looking in the back of there the other day and there 's one there now . |
| 20 | Because the bus had no radio or mobile telephone the civilian driver had to go to a nearby farmhouse to call the police . |
| 21 | But she heard herself saying , still in shrewish style , that on the contrary there was n't any time in the morning , that she had to go to a psychoanalytical conference in the Metropole Hotel with a bunch of Japanese in the morning , that she wanted to talk now , that he could n't just announce that he wanted to get divorced and then decide he was too tired to talk about it . |
| 22 | All proposals had to go through a protective sieve , an inner filtration to correspond to the standard he sets for his work . |
| 23 | All proposals had to go through a protective sieve , an inner filtration to correspond to the standard he sets for his work . |
| 24 | Although the pharmacist seemed to have some trouble deciphering the prescription , and Henry had to go through a nerve-wracking pantomime of ignorance about the nature of the chemicals he required , it was n't long before he was standing once again on the doorstep of 54 Maple Drive . |
| 25 | They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory . |
| 26 | Speaking from a personal experience , I had to go through a similar kind of programme after years of cocaine abuse . |
| 27 | The annual report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration criticised the system whereby claimants had to go through a cumbersome late appeals procedure to obtain the full arrears benefit to which they were rightfully entitled where those exceeded the statutory 12-month limit . |
| 28 | So we had to go through a whole charade of auditioning a second guitarist . |
| 29 | ( 18 ) About four months before the time I am writing of , my Lady had been in London , and had gone over a Reformatory … |
| 30 | ‘ I had gone through a poor year in Test cricket and wanted to play in England to check out my technique . |