Example sentences of "to go [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to go somewhere where he could be alone — where he could get some peace . |
| 2 | who wants to go somewhere when the channel tunnel |
| 3 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 4 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 5 | But sportsmen must retire ; their bones insist upon it , and most try to do so if not at the height of their powers — that is too much to ask , no matter how determined the vows of youth — at any rate a day before they are asked to go rather than a day after . |
| 6 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 7 | Better to go on as before than do that . |
| 8 | Things can not be allowed to go on as they are . |
| 9 | My life is set to go on as it always has and no war can change it that I can see . ’ |
| 10 | When classifying fossils even more care is necessary because we have not got as much evidence to go on as with living animals . |
| 11 | The petals are the last to go on as these will fade and die quickly if a start is made too soon . |
| 12 | We 're not going to be able to go on as we are . |
| 13 | These are strategic alternatives which would capitalize on George and Marie 's strengths and minimize their weaknesses : it is the business of a case study answer to identify these alternatives and not just to assume that the proprietors have to go on as they started . |
| 14 | I should have liked to go on as we were , but nothing goes on , even for a short time , without making the kind of decision which was , in this case , clearly impossible . |
| 15 | The other wanted the Communist Party to go on as before . |
| 16 | I shall certainly set the police on you if you continue to go on as you are doing . ’ |
| 17 | They wo n't be able to go on if we do n't rest . " |
| 18 | It 's just it 's very very very well , put it this way , children seem to learn language very very very very quickly and they 've got very very very little data to go on when they learn the language . |
| 19 | He began his term in office much in the spirit he intends to go on when he blasted the banks and receivers for causing so much misery among the small business community . |
| 20 | Harbury tried to grab the apparent opportunity but Wickham neatly turned the conversation so that Shildon was able to go on where he had left off . |
| 21 | ‘ He 'd schooled very well and although I had hoped for a lead for a bit longer , we had to go on where we did . |
| 22 | Once you begin lying , it is hard not to go on because it is impossible to explain why you lied in the first place . |
| 23 | When we write the stories of people we know , we often fall into the trap of identifying too strongly with our subject and not giving the reader enough to go on because the material is too familiar to us . |
| 24 | Now Bigwig 's put their backs up , and they 'll think they 've got to go on because he makes them . |
| 25 | I want them to go on because they can see it 's the only thing to do . |
| 26 | You form the impression that the two of them do not actively encourage function bookings which are likely to go on until after 23.00 hours . |
| 27 | He takes his hand , puts his blond head down and wills himself to go on until he reaches his yellow bedroom with teddies stencilled around the walls . |
| 28 | Caring for your skin needs to go deeper than superficial ‘ beauty care ’ confined to the face . |
| 29 | We ought to go in before it starts to get cold . ’ |
| 30 | It is better to go in when they are losing money than when they are making money ; then one has more muscle ’ . |