Example sentences of "[vb past] go [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 2 | The door was open and I did hear that much when I passed to go in to the ladies ' toilet . |
| 3 | When the doctor had gone , Dot said , ‘ I got to go back in the hospital , ai n't I , Mrs H ? ’ |
| 4 | She must have told Gloria off too , for the very next day , Gloria said , ‘ You got to go off to the country , ducks , health visitor says . |
| 5 | However , district councillors felt that none of the objections justified any changes to the proposed order and agreed to go ahead with the scheme . |
| 6 | Next summer mum was told she would have to go back into hospital for a long time , and because I already knew the place , I agreed to go back to the Cheshire Home for this period . |
| 7 | I used to discuss with my brother ways and means of becoming martyrs , and we agreed to go together to the land of the Moors , begging our way for the love of God , so that we might be beheaded there … . |
| 8 | I daresay they 'll wonder why on earth you agreed to go out with a chap like me . " |
| 9 | In this case , people met at work or in the pub will not be asked home or invited to go out to a dance . |
| 10 | On the following Monday she proposed to go back to the job she had taken to make it financially possible for Peter and her to buy their little home . |
| 11 | they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day ! |
| 12 | ‘ You must excuse me — I promised to go along to the tennis courts . |
| 13 | I mean Cyprus has been one of the major growth destinations in the last year or so and erm people stopped going there from the day war broke out . |
| 14 | He let go then of every dignity but the dignity of defiance , and fought like a wild-cat , lashing and struggling and biting , wearing himself out uselessly in an effort that could gain him nothing . |
| 15 | He was climbing on the barrier so he came to go back into the room to tell you what he was doing when Dale fell . ’ |
| 16 | The bang of the younger one 's heart seemed to go right through the earth like thundering horses . |
| 17 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 18 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 19 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 20 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 21 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 22 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 23 | He was beginning to find pieces which seemed to go together with the hint of a pattern … |
| 24 | Our very own Adventures deal in all the things that seemed to go AWOL in the late 80s — luscious harmonies , strong guitar driven songs with big big choruses , all topped with strong echoes of classic 60s pop . |
| 25 | Manchester United at home to Bolton were held to a goal-less first half first forty five minutes , and they had to wait until the seventy seventh minute before taking the lead through Hughes , and United go through with a one nil win . |
| 26 | She 'd gone on into a book-lined room which appeared to be in use as an office , and she was placing the shotgun along with two others in a locking steel cabinet . |
| 27 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'd have had a visit if she 'd gone straight to the nearest phone , ’ Goldman observed . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's all right — I was n't at all happy about the arrangements either , ’ Laura agreed , before explaining that when Ross had returned to New York he 'd gone straight to the hospital from the airport , before eventually returning to the empty apartment . |
| 30 | No , he 'd gone up to the traffic lights and this cyclist sort of like cycled up , jumped off his bike and wheeled it round the corner so he |