Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] to go [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were taught to go for the jugular , ’ Buckmaster remarked . |
| 2 | She was on an expedition where packhorses were hired to go to the camp at 10,000ft beside a mountain lake . |
| 3 | In subsequent proceedings for false imprisonment , it was admitted that the sole reason for arresting her was the constable 's opinion that ‘ police inquiries were more likely to be fruitful in clearing up the case if Mrs. Mohammed-Holgate were compelled to go to the police station to be questioned there ’ . |
| 4 | Startop , Drummle , Herbert and I were asked to go to the office at six o'clock the next evening . |
| 5 | THE SOVIET UNION played a key role in the agreement under which thousands of East Germans who had taken refuge in the West German embassies in Prague and Warsaw were allowed to go to the West on Sunday , government officials said yesterday . |
| 6 | Union members were encouraged to go to the Thursday meeting . |
| 7 | In 1245 the king accepted his advice that it would be more splendid to have the leopards , which were planned to go beside the throne at Westminster , made of bronze rather than of marble . |
| 8 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 9 | If that last sally was intended to go below the belt , it failed ; the ‘ better men than you ’ line was worked out long ago . |
| 10 | The series of which this book is a part was intended to go beyond the conventional textbook by introducing its readers to sources and methods . |
| 11 | ‘ From what she told me , Mellor was tipped to go to the top . ’ |
| 12 | The Spaniards had put about a cover story that the fleet assembled at Cadiz was being made ready to sail to Sicily and Ormonde was forbidden to go near the port ; he was to be picked up from Corunna . |
| 13 | The bill , which was expected to go before the Chamber of Deputies after the municipal and regional elections in May 1990 , prohibited ownership of a daily newspaper to anyone owning three or more television stations . |
| 14 | A vote on the bill to divide Czechoslovakia was expected to go before the Assembly on Oct. 1 . |
| 15 | Despite this one Macchi of the 79 a Squadriglia was seen to go into the sea between Gozo and Cap Scalambria possibly due to oxygen starvation of the pilot , Serg.Magg . |
| 16 | When Rajiv was persuaded to go into the family business by his mother in 1980 , Sonia was against it . |
| 17 | I was told to go to the telephone . |
| 18 | So I was told to go to the dermatologist . |
| 19 | And within er a week I was told to go into the dry part , handling , in the buffing shop . |
| 20 | In 1981 Vitalis Okoth from St Paul 's Parish , Mbaga , was invited to go on the course . |
| 21 | He was set to go in the autumn , but he did not run away from that one — he got the editors of five friendly newspapers to run away for him . |
| 22 | ‘ After that , totally by chance , I was asked to go on the road with Mike and the Mechanics and it fitted around the 1989 work I was doing with the Floyd . |
| 23 | She said she was asked to go to the bank to sign away the house . |
| 24 | There was a little food left over from yesterday , so she managed to achieve a meagre lunch ; but in the afternoon she was forced to go to the village again to buy some provisions . |
| 25 | His task was made easier when Marcel Albers , the second-placed Dutchman , after setting the fastest lap , was forced to go into the pit with electrical problems . |
| 26 | The book is said to mention a letter from the Duke of Edinburgh to the princess , warning her to toe the line , and claims the princess was forced to go on the present tour as a publicity stunt to demonstrate the couple 's unity . |
| 27 | Er , costing for parallel , repeat jobs , that 's been dealt with by Simon erm , Client contact record I think that 's now been assimilated into new procedures yes we have just talked about that er sub- contracting you have probably dealt with that , although we have n't discussed it yes er , list of procedure owners I have prepared and reissued it , I do n't how wide they have circulated it , it was meant to go into the Quality Manual , and the Quality Manual is not being re-circulated until March time . |
| 28 | When the moran of the Purko section rose in 1918 , in protest against recruitment , all operations against them were suspended while Delamere , at his own request , was allowed to go into the reserve and negotiate with the rebels . |
| 29 | After some initial encouraging noises from Jim Callaghan , the Labour Party turned this request down and the NILP was allowed to go to the wall in the near-war situation that the province had become by the early '70s . |
| 30 | As I got older , about seven or eight , I was allowed to go to the park on my own . |