Example sentences of "go [to-vb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 2 | That this person should harbour aggressive feelings towards you is unimaginable , but then suddenly , she goes to poke you in the eye — and you blink . |
| 3 | I was able to go to see her in hospital . |
| 4 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 5 | Given , let let's say y'know somebody of a status goes to see somebody of equivalent status wait so it 's it 's about the distance , yeah . |
| 6 | He has felt the presaging shadow of death , and he goes to meet it in the old unchanging way of the wild — alone . |
| 7 | And he used to come to with his black horse and dray and I used to go to help him on a er on a Saturday morning , used to get to about perhaps nine or half past and I 'd go the rounds with him and all I used to do was to er take the peoples things that they 'd bought up the entry you see because they were all entries then . |
| 8 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 9 | Because we all try to twist circumstances in such a way that they conform with our subconscious picture of ourselves , those who see themselves as permanent victims will automatically seek out people who are going to treat them as such . |
| 10 | I think I 'm going to treat myself to one ! |
| 11 | ‘ But maybe society is n't going to treat you with dignity , maybe that 's all gone now . ’ |
| 12 | Now instead of treating you like a number , we 're going to treat you to a number . |
| 13 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 14 | As one farmer put it , ‘ Time allows me to be interested only in what is going to affect me on my farm — making up the numbers is not the answer ’ . |
| 15 | Well , how are you going to like us in Canada ? " |
| 16 | ‘ And are you going to like it on Omega , Jenny ? ’ |
| 17 | The judgment effectively absolved it of criminal and civil liability for causing approximately 3,500 deaths and injuries to thousands , and the final settlement was only a percentage of the orginial sum of $3.5 billion that the government was going to sue them for . |
| 18 | It may be that Borg realised quite soon that family life was not going to carry him through the great silence left behind by his renunciation of that terrible drug , competitiveness . |
| 19 | ‘ In the Antarctic , I 'm going to carry it under my clothes . |
| 20 | ‘ Are you never going to forgive me for that ? ’ he queried , and there was such bone-melting charm in him then that Fabia was glad that she was sitting down . |
| 21 | The good news is that we are still going to see something of as he has agreed to act as a consultant for us . |
| 22 | ‘ I am going to see them as Marie Wilson 's dad . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going to see him about a play I have written . ’ |
| 24 | The trouble was that very few members of the audience at the Theatre Royal , Brighton , understood either what he was saying or why they had spent the money on going to see him in the first place . |
| 25 | ‘ Because you ai n't going to see me till lunch-time . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm going to see her at lunch time . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm going to see her on Saturday . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I have always gone to see her at Kensington Palace — well , I was n't going to see her in a railway siding , was I ? |
| 29 | But now he was going to see her in the flesh . |
| 30 | If I if you 've got people in prison and then you had to go visiting you , you could get relief after , after the first twenty five pounds , so if the expenses were going to see somebody in prison were more than twenty five pounds I could get relief with them |