Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] to go [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were woken up at 5.30 am , and Alex and I were told to go over to the kitchens to fetch the breakfast . |
| 2 | After a fortnight we were told to go down to the airfield for a possible lift into Assam , but often refugees went in the morning but were back in the evening as the planes were so busy taking out wounded soldiers . |
| 3 | There is literally no limit to the abuses which might creep in if such a practice were allowed to go on without restriction . |
| 4 | The servants were allowed to go out at the discretion of the matron and the house surgeon , and the house was to be locked up at 10 p.m . |
| 5 | The TUC edict was followed on 5 July by action against the Cricklewood sorters — they were laid off by the Post Office management and threatened with the withdrawal of strike pay by the Union of Post Office Workers and as a result were forced to go back to handling Grunwick mail . |
| 6 | Girls were chosen to go along to the Sophisticut salon in Paignton , Devon where they spent the day being pampered and totally transformed by Christopher and his artistic team . |
| 7 | Under George Bush , NASA was committed to go back to the moon and on to Mars , and the space station was arguably a step on that road . |
| 8 | The USA had previously been opposed to such involuntary repatriation , as had the Vietnamese government , but the latter was expected to go along with the initiative , given its current desire to restore diplomatic relations with the USA . |
| 9 | Vicente might have entrusted it to Tristram because he was being evacuated from Teruel and was expected to go back to England . |
| 10 | He was told to go up to Cambridge , despite a shortfall of £60 in his funds , and that his college would do its utmost to ensure that he could carry on with his studies . |
| 11 | I was told to go off to work . |
| 12 | The nearest I 've come to being arrested in the line of duty was when I was told to go out onto the streets , microphone in hand , and smile at people . |
| 13 | And Simon was invited to go down to London for a chat . |
| 14 | Or as a laboratory supervisor , who was asked to go along with the manufacture of ‘ doctored ’ data so as to secure a contract deadline put it ( Vandivier 1972:22 ) : |
| 15 | So oft we went , leaving Pop at ‘ Prospect Lodge ’ in Simla ( a holiday home for missionaries ) until he was asked to go down to Poona and look after a soldiers ' club . |
| 16 | The crimson rope-lights still held him , so that he was forced to go on down the slope until they stood before the terrible dwelling place of the necromancer . |
| 17 | In 1682 , he was forced to go back to Ireland and to stay there for 3 years . |
| 18 | ‘ They made the usual checks then , because I was allowed to go back at any time if there was a problem , they let me go home . |
| 19 | It was only because her mother approved so strongly of Pogo that she was allowed to go out with him to places like this , and then , as often as not , her mother insisted that Aubrey went too . |
| 20 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 21 | I knew he was trying to cheer me up but I was determined to go back to my knitting lessons when the vultures had gone . |
| 22 | As for Mike Lawrence , it may have been his last test flight , but he was determined to go out in flamboyant style |