Example sentences of "[vb infin] go [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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31 If he had been on his own he would have gone straight up but he was more used to walking and climbing , no doubt , than these policemen .
32 He would have gone straight home but made a short diversion when he found Pike the ditcher drunk as a bishop on the corner of the trackway leading down to the church .
33 Would this have gone on forever if a grey-eyed inglésa had not stormed into our lives ? ’
34 er pie , chips and peas , hot actually , bread roll and butter , for one ninety nine , I was n't half pleased , well that just suit us cos it , we would have gone somewhere else and had coffee and a cake it would of cost you , one fifty each
35 We would rather have gone somewhere else if that was what we wanted ; it was n't quite right somehow and so we painted the windows up again . )
36 In fact , Berger completed the slowing down lap , which indicated a pessimistic computer and justified his theory that , had Schumacher got really close in the final laps , he would have gone flat out and to hell with the consequences .
37 ‘ He could have gone back later and done all the things he claimed to have done … ’
38 We shall be wanderers , though we live in houses , for our thoughts will have gone far away and abandoned our possessions and entered the infinite heritage of the freemen .
39 There you 've heard allegations from Les , you should have gone down there and said to him ‘ get off . ’
40 If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year .
41 I am not sure she could actually have gone so far as to say things like : ‘ these errors may be trivial in themselves , but you must yourself realize their larger significance ’ .
42 She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness .
43 If only I could have gone out there and helped to put matters right .
44 ‘ Perhaps , in retrospect , I should n't have gone out there because I did n't do myself any favours .
45 ‘ I would n't bother to go out there if I did n't think I could win .
46 He says his customers would go further afield only if discounting was ferocious , and in such an event believes that prices would soon start going back up as one or more of the big chains went out of business .
47 You ca n't organise to go out anywhere or do anything because you have a performance that night . ’
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