Example sentences of "i [vb past] go [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Waite , who was freed last November after five years in Lebanon , says on the ABC programme 20/20 : ‘ One day I asked to go to the bathroom . |
| 2 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 3 | ‘ I made to go down the stairs to see what was happening . |
| 4 | I was in there nearly three years , or two and a half years anyway and , of course , I when I passed to go to the Q M of course , I , I used to do the Headmaster 's and all that but they , they could n't teach me any more because you , you can only have the same lessons as them that have been taught you know . |
| 5 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 6 | I tried to go to the ladies ' room . |
| 7 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 8 | ‘ I tried to go over the fiction I 'd done , pull out the subtext and put it in a form that you could give to an audience at a world 's fair at the end of the century . |
| 9 | I tried going through the undergrowth and looping round — my sense of direction had far improved from peacetime — but the saw-toothed grasses left me bleeding like a scored steak . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , Mummy , I promised to go to the common and play rounders with Ann and Ruth . ’ |
| 11 | That 's why I stopped going to the Olde Tyme Dancing with him . |
| 12 | Mary says now : ‘ Accessing my past lives has been of great benefit and I 'm sure that if I 'd gone to an ordinary therapist , nothing would have been sorted out . ’ |
| 13 | Not only that — they also thought , because I 'd gone to the grammar , that suddenly I was too snooty to be friends with them . |
| 14 | If I 'd gone to the rank inside , it would have been the railway police 's case . |
| 15 | You know if I 'd gone on the I said hello look here 's a mad man |
| 16 | I 'd gone for a walk . |
| 17 | They caught me at it , luckily , before I 'd gone over the edge . |
| 18 | Com , coming out the back tell me how just as I 'd gone by the door and er |
| 19 | No apparently I 'd gone in the bog , I was n't feeling bad or anything . |
| 20 | After what seemed an age , Rubber Feet moved off towards what they call the Lavatory Tower ( not what it sounds like ) , Leather Feet must have figured I 'd gone inside the Cath because he pattered off up the steps , which of course meant the end of all hopes of returning to my refuge via the Crypt . |
| 21 | So I 'd to go to the washing racks for fourpence a day . |
| 22 | Mr Chamberlain 's services to the State are infinitely greater than any I have been able to render , but we are both men who are giving all we can give to the service of the State ; we are both men who are , or try to be , actuated by principle in our conduct ; we are men who , I think , have exactly the same views on the political problems of the day ; we are men who I believe — certainly on my side-have esteem and perhaps I may say affection for each other ; but the result of this dynamic force is that we stand here today , he prepared to go into the wilderness if he should be compelled to forsake the Prime Minister , and I prepared to go into the wilderness if I should be compelled to stay with him . |
| 23 | I turned to go into the house , made with great difficulty the three or four steps that separated me from my room , and felt my arms and legs burning , also my body . |
| 24 | I turned to go out the way I had come . |
| 25 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 26 | ‘ Surprisingly I enjoyed going to the ladies ’ sewing circle , with Matey , ’ wrote Sally-Anne in her journal . |
| 27 | Perversely , I enjoyed going beyond the last putt , and watching Augusta 's chairman , embodiment of America 's ‘ Establishment , ’ claim his share of world television with a speech of mind-bending banality . |
| 28 | I also used to help him with his drink and biscuit and he would always drop his soggy biscuit over me but I was ever so sad when I finished going to the Mother and toddler group as that was my favourite part of the week . |
| 29 | I loved going under the car and getting greasy ! ’ she said . |
| 30 | The headmaster was getting a little too close to the bone for my liking , so I decided to go on the defensive . |