Example sentences of "go [adv] to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Who else would be likely to drive from Paris in the middle of the night and go halfway to demolishing a door ? |
| 2 | But there 's also conceptual jargon , where you might go halfway to addressing the issue , but a very complicated concept , with various complications to the argument that you 're trying to put across . |
| 3 | John the former Manchester City manager is there , a former manager of Shrewsbury as well , he 's with Alan and Blackburn have just gone close to going two one up . |
| 4 | Mark Hughes slotted in comfortably at centre-back , although he picked up a booking and went close to receiving a red card . |
| 5 | Each side in turn went close to dispensing with extra time , Crown hitting a post then Paul Gascoigne having a chip turned on to the bar . |
| 6 | Beenhakker , in his more candid moments , went close to admitting that senior players were in charge at the Bernabeu . |
| 7 | But it was Bishops Cleve who went close to scoring on the half an hour as Cliff Powell on his debut ran through , his shot was parried by Paul Whittington in the Milton goal , and the Milton defence cleared the ball from the danger area as Mark Gill was on hand for Bishops to pounce on any mistakes made . |
| 8 | MOYOLA went closest to scoring in the opening half in a move involving Rafferty and Calderwood , but Black 's kick went just over the crossbar . |