Example sentences of "[verb] to go [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Thank you , but I do n't want to go out for a meal tonight . ’
2 Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage .
3 I could have returned to Ipswich but I did n't want to go back like a beggar .
4 I daresay they 'll wonder why on earth you agreed to go out with a chap like me . "
5 I had arranged to go out in a crab boat to get JTR 's coastal sketches .
6 I 've had two or three I think , very rarely do we find them and shapers tend to go out on a limb they tend to want to lead they tend to want to control they want people to follow their way they do tend to be the people that dig in and say you know this is the way we do it .
7 ‘ I want to go back to a size 12 again .
8 I want to go back to a comment made by the hon. Member for Truro ( Mr. Taylor ) , which led the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) to go into a spate of incontinent muttering .
9 I want to go out for a ride in the open air . ’
10 Oh well might have perhaps will you have a spare day No I want to go out for a meal No , but I been home but at dinner time just .
11 In this case , people met at work or in the pub will not be asked home or invited to go out to a dance .
12 Now you 'll see him in a moment , he this guy driving he wants to go off on a slip road .
13 they tried to go out for a meal , I do n't know whether it was christmas day or boxing day down in and they could n't get n in nowhere , I said well you would n't on a boxing day !
14 But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them .
15 The Tema Russo Finale can hardly be said to go off like a rocket either .
16 Judging by the latest letter he had received from New York , care of Isobel Dawson , it was going to go up with a bang — there had been sufficient talk of banning it to make sure that everybody bought it , without any real danger that it would be banned from the bookstores .
17 I mean , you know there not going to go round with a felt tip pen .
18 FOR a thriller to really thrill there should be moments when you are gripping the edge of your seat wondering if the star is indeed going to go down in a hail of bullets — one more dead hero .
19 Firemen were called to the river Taff in Llandaff to rescue Eric , a 10-stone Irish Wolfhound who had got into deep water after deciding to go in for a swim .
20 ‘ Would you like to go out for a drink ? ’
21 I met him at my wee cousin 's wedding — he was the Best Man — he says to me would you like to go out for a bite to eat ?
22 I 'd like to go in for a bit , but there 's loads of people in there and I ai n't got no washing to do .
23 ‘ Ideally we would like to go back to a site a few months after installation , for a meeting with senior management to show them how they can take advantage of the system , ’ Chudley says .
24 what would you like to go down as a scrubber ?
25 That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’
26 If you are aiming to go back for a landing , only stay long enough in that thermal to get properly centred before moving off again down to 1500 feet and starting to look for the next bit of lift .
27 They arranged to go out for a drink on the second evening , although Kathleen was n't really looking forward to it as it was bound to turn into a ‘ What was the name of that blonde with the big chest ? ’ sort of session and she would end up driving them both home and quite likely putting them both to bed !
28 We put on a few and I knew I was finishing , so I thought I would try to go out with a bang by breaking the pavilion window in the Long Room .
29 I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week .
30 Unless — do you have to go back to a hospital with it , or anything ? ’
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