Example sentences of "go [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get rid of erm you really aught not to have dark walls you really aught to have erm pale we was going to paint the whole house white . |
| 2 | The point to remember is that any hunch , whether formally expressed as a hypothesis or not , is going to affect the general approach of the researcher and what questions are asked . |
| 3 | It 's a song about running away — ‘ a Jack Kerouac On The Road experience ’ — but also about how ‘ if you do n't like this town , you 're not going to like the next town either — you ca n't run away from yourself ’ . |
| 4 | She was most likely going to fix up about someone shutting the hens up for her instead of him , going to see the other boy . |
| 5 | Then a chance encounter with a man going to see the precious Blood at Wilsnak in the Duchy of Brandenburg determined her to accompany him . |
| 6 | It keeps me thinking and I know I 'm going to enjoy the different style . ’ |
| 7 | Managers were always going to hit the first target once they realised that a one in three rota without prospective cover fitted the limit of 83 hours a week exactly . |
| 8 | ‘ Quite frankly , ’ Laura continued , ‘ if I hear her say , ‘ I really do n't know why you ca n't keep the twins quiet , ’ in that scathing upper-class voice of hers just once more I swear I 'm going to hit the old bat ! ’ |
| 9 | For an instant Fox was going to hit the little idiot , but the impulse faded . |
| 10 | Mrs Banham said : ‘ Stephen is going to miss the best part of his first and most important year of school due to illness with ear infections . ’ |
| 11 | I suppose I 'm going to miss the old firm after all these years . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to miss the old hospital . |
| 13 | You mark my words , we 're all going to miss the old doctor at Thrush Green . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm going to wear the brown velvet trousers and the medallion . |
| 15 | ‘ Here you are talking and holding forth , ’ says the latter , ‘ but tell me this : are you going to kill the old woman yourself ? ’ |
| 16 | He was going to kill the evil headster whatever he did . |
| 17 | they 're going to interview the Macho Man it 's that actually Yeah . |
| 18 | Normally he handed over responsibility for the routine maintenance of their relationship to Ellen , but she was letting him down , so he was going to try the only technique he knew : drop some explosive overboard and see what floated to the surface . |
| 19 | Pike , Quigley and Mum used to wait behind the hedge , rattling tambourines and waving placards saying ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO MEET THE LIVING GOD ? as the congregation filed out and chatted to the vicar about the problems of British Rail . |
| 20 | Since both of us were going to meet the same plane , one of us was definitely going the wrong way . |
| 21 | Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets . |
| 22 | ‘ We are very concerned about the revised proposals because they are going to exclude the vast majority of contamination from the registers , ’ says Sean Humber , waste campaigner with Friends of the Earth . |
| 23 | ( I saw a party of friends — all knowing that their host and hostess must either clear up before retiring , or rise early before going to work the next day — whisking round to help before they left . |
| 24 | How are you going to find the right frequency before they blow us to pieces ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going to find the nearest policeman , ’ she informed him in an icy voice . |
| 26 | If the algorithms for correction of the above four types of spelling errors were to be applied to our system , it is unlikely that applying them to the highest-rated allowable string ( if there are any allowable strings ) is going to find the intended word . |
| 27 | Iain , like any impressionable adolescent , was always going to find the bad sister more exciting . |
| 28 | There was no way I was going to sell the little guy out . |
| 29 | So , unlike most companies , IBM can guarantee that a new concept is going to reach the entire management population within a year — and IBMers are sufficiently motivated to want to catch up if they hear there is something new coming . |
| 30 | The firms with the best teams — analysts , jobbers , corporate lawyers , financial PR men , whatever — those were the firms who were going to set the going rate and get it . |