Example sentences of "[subord] go [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided it would take less time to break the copyguards than to go back for the correct disc . |
| 2 | It was better to stand out at the beginning than to go in with the expectation that he would soon have to provoke a further crisis by resignation . |
| 3 | Oh I might go to that fourteen quid , yeah it is cheap , than going up down the road . |
| 4 | I wanted to put that in , rather than going on about the deprivation and the tragedy of divorce and broken families . ’ |
| 5 | Do you think perhaps the problem is that , through no fault of their own , they spend far too much time in the police station doing other work perhaps , than going out on the beat ? |
| 6 | Sleep is also very important for me , much more than going out to the newest disco or restaurant . |
| 7 | Whenever that happens , rather than going back to the track I play something else that will fit , or I leave it as an improvisational section , so to speak . |
| 8 | Neighbours say he has kept a low profile since moving in , prefering to stay by the pool than go out on the town . |
| 9 | Like the crooks pursued by the hero in Calling Bulldog Drummond ( 1951 ) , for whom ‘ life in peacetime seemed unbearably flat ’ , or the ex-officers who take over their old ship for smuggling runs across the Channel in the Ship that Died of Shame ( 1955 ) , or The League of Gentlemen ( 1960 ) , for whom robbing a bank promises their ‘ finest hour ’ , many filmmakers seemed to feel that there was nothing to do , now the war was over and the hopes of peace had faded , than go back to the site of old glories . |
| 10 | I 'd rather die than go back out the way I was . |
| 11 | erm And we 've already lost planes in the erm war so far , and we have only a limited number there , while going back to the last world war |
| 12 | She could not find the light switch and stood , her hand on the newel post , deciding whether to go up in the dark . |
| 13 | It 's less tiring because otherwise you 've got to come in during the afternoon , then you have to decide whether to go back to the hotel or stay at the show . |
| 14 | Ian Woosnam is debating whether to go back to the drawing board and change his putting style for today 's Honda Open in Hamburg . |
| 15 | She had exactly six hours till midnight , six hours to make up her mind whether to go down to the beach bar , or give it a miss for the very first time . |
| 16 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |
| 17 | PC Robinson advised owners to cover up the digital light of the video recorder when going out during the evening . |
| 18 | The arguments over who he should drive for went on until the last minute when it was decided that Clark should make the fateful trip to Germany . |