Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] to go [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Despite intensive pressure to resign in the aftermath of the serious rioting of late April and early May — itself a product of the acquittal of those officers accused of assaulting King — and police failings which the unrest revealed [ see pp. 38856 ; 38894 ] , King continued to prevaricate until June 8 when he finally agreed to go at the end of the month .
2 It was noticeable that Celia no longer asked to go to the sea although , by that time , the weather had changed .
3 Oh Just had to go to the toilet did n't I ?
4 ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting .
5 ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting .
6 I just wanted to go to the bathroom .
7 Even though the ball was , to scale , probably seven foot high it still managed to go in the back of the net .
8 Joan also hesitated to go to the Home Office as her father was a senior civil servant in line for further promotion and not too far from retirement .
9 I really needed to go to the toilet , but that meant walking past them onto the other side of the hall .
10 They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners .
11 Well tried to go across the road and get get a bit of shopping .
12 He rattled his empty glass and I half stood to go to the bar .
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