Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to go [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man stepped back into the centre of the circle , and seemed almost to go to sleep . |
| 2 | I begged not to go to school the next day , but Mama said that I was over my cold and that I would be safer at school in case her trick should fail . |
| 3 | When I got up to go to bed , I saw Emily sitting quietly by the fire . |
| 4 | There was room for both science and religion since the Bible taught how to go to heaven , not how the heavens go . |
| 5 | Firelight generally ate a bit of her haynet and by the time he settled down to go to sleep she lay down as well . |
| 6 | ‘ We decided not to go into debt to take part but it was still hard just to be a spectator , ’ said Steve . |
| 7 | She decided not to go to communion . |
| 8 | He decided not to go for repair grants . |
| 9 | He fetched his sleeping bag from the cornbin , where he kept it so the mice would n't make a nest in it , and curled up to go to sleep . |
| 10 | She did n't know at the time that some day she would call herself ‘ artist ’ or ‘ writer ’ — not many teenage coloured girls from the Gorbals in Glasgow had trailblazed a path in that direction , so it was a real exploration into the unknown for her when at sixteen she set out to go to college to study fashion . |