Example sentences of "go to the bank " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you can drive you may not always have or have use of a car , but you will always need to reach the shops , go to the bank , to the doctor 's , and so on . |
| 2 | Most importantly for my health I never go to the bank with the takings any more . |
| 3 | What is the meaning of the word ‘ meaning ’ in our talk of meaning someone ( for example , ‘ When I said , ‘ Come here ’ I meant you , not Jones ' ) or of meaning something ( for example , ‘ When I said , ‘ Go to the bank ’ I meant the river bank' ) ? |
| 4 | The question is : In saying ‘ I meant … ’ , when one has been misunderstood , is one saying something about something one did at the time of saying , ‘ Come here ’ or ‘ Go to the bank ’ ? |
| 5 | If the ambiguity , the misinterpretability , of ‘ Go to the bank ’ struck one as one said it , then one would be seeing the sentence ‘ from outside ’ , so to speak ( 233–5 , 287 ) , in which case one 's thought and the sentence would be distinguishable . |
| 6 | ‘ But is n't it remarkable that we should say , ‘ I meant … ‘ ( that is , in the past tense ) if there was only the sentence , ‘ Go to the bank ’ and no accompanying interpretation ? ’ ( 39–40 ) . |
| 7 | But if , in saying ‘ I meant … ’ , one is not saying something about something one did at the time of saying , ‘ Come here ’ or ‘ Go to the bank ’ , what is one saying ? |
| 8 | I mean , their loan periods are somewhere about twenty five years whereby you probably realise in this country if a young er person wants to start a firm and he 's go to the bank they 're not gon na give him much scope at all ! |
| 9 | The key response being sought was , presumably , ‘ Here 's a really sensible way of running my finances : after all , I hardly ever go to the bank anyway . |
| 10 | There when you go to the bank , you have to sit down for about two hours before they even think you 're there . |