Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] go [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , they lost Gooch , Hick — cheaply again — and Stewart before they were in credit ; but with Smith mixing careworn defence and carefree attack , once pulling Su'a for six while on one knee as the Samoan attempted some left-arm spin , and Lamb all bustle and energy , English fears were eased going into the last day . |
| 2 | ‘ We were taught to go for the jugular , ’ Buckmaster remarked . |
| 3 | In this way were seen Gone With the Wind and All Quiet on the Western Front : as events in the nation 's history , peopled by characters from the Persian pantheon . |
| 4 | The , th th th the o the other thing that is I think , I think there is something in this , is that there was , at least within some sections of the peasantry , erm er a , a kind of erm revolutionary zeal which they were building themselves and they were wanting to go beyond the Party . |
| 5 | Was there at some time then , a briefing for the officers who were going to go into the flat ? |
| 6 | Conditions had been met and there was so much speculation about when we were going to go into the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we took advantage of the excellent opportunity which , which |
| 7 | Were we on coke when we said , in the summer , that we were going to go for the sonnet ? ’ |
| 8 | And erm then er again I did n't think that you were going to go through the authority needs and , and bit then you , you went through it very quickly but then I , I think it was for wrapping it up for the video not the way that you of usually done it |
| 9 | She was on an expedition where packhorses were hired to go to the camp at 10,000ft beside a mountain lake . |
| 10 | In subsequent proceedings for false imprisonment , it was admitted that the sole reason for arresting her was the constable 's opinion that ‘ police inquiries were more likely to be fruitful in clearing up the case if Mrs. Mohammed-Holgate were compelled to go to the police station to be questioned there ’ . |
| 11 | They were exhausted going into the singles and I hated banging them in there for every match . |
| 12 | The child crossed and uncrossed her legs as she gabbled , as if she were dancing to go to the lavatory . |
| 13 | Yes in those days there were and they was mostly young girls , they were waylaid going across the heath or it 's their stepfather and |
| 14 | Startop , Drummle , Herbert and I were asked to go to the office at six o'clock the next evening . |
| 15 | THE SOVIET UNION played a key role in the agreement under which thousands of East Germans who had taken refuge in the West German embassies in Prague and Warsaw were allowed to go to the West on Sunday , government officials said yesterday . |
| 16 | Union members were encouraged to go to the Thursday meeting . |
| 17 | Investigations of this kind reveal something of the structure of poverty by indicating those who were kept going by the poor rate , the only eighteenth-century tax which was redistributive . |
| 18 | Elbing s shipyards were kept going after the war only as a result of massive subsidy from the Reich . |
| 19 | Both sites were kept going until the early 1980s , when the latter was closed and subsequently covered by new housing in late 1988 . |
| 20 | In 1245 the king accepted his advice that it would be more splendid to have the leopards , which were planned to go beside the throne at Westminster , made of bronze rather than of marble . |
| 21 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 22 | If that last sally was intended to go below the belt , it failed ; the ‘ better men than you ’ line was worked out long ago . |
| 23 | The series of which this book is a part was intended to go beyond the conventional textbook by introducing its readers to sources and methods . |
| 24 | ‘ From what she told me , Mellor was tipped to go to the top . ’ |
| 25 | The Spaniards had put about a cover story that the fleet assembled at Cadiz was being made ready to sail to Sicily and Ormonde was forbidden to go near the port ; he was to be picked up from Corunna . |
| 26 | ‘ And how did she know he was dying to go to the match ? ’ |
| 27 | I even went , I was dying to go to the toilet so I thought oh I 'll go down to the big er and I had no toilet paper so I 'll go down to the big toilets and shower rooms . |
| 28 | Bren was dying to go to the pub . |
| 29 | The bill , which was expected to go before the Chamber of Deputies after the municipal and regional elections in May 1990 , prohibited ownership of a daily newspaper to anyone owning three or more television stations . |
| 30 | A vote on the bill to divide Czechoslovakia was expected to go before the Assembly on Oct. 1 . |