Example sentences of "go to [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 2 | ‘ My knee is never going to work the way it should , Seb , but the muscles of my leg are working much better , have you noticed ? |
| 3 | At the time of going to press the arrangements for the consecration of these first black bishops of modern times are not yet complete , but it is rumoured that the Holy Father has expressed the wish to elevate all three distinguished sons of Africa to the plenitude of the priesthood with his own hands . |
| 4 | At time of going to press the results for the European enamel boxes and clocks and watches were not available . |
| 5 | At the time of going to press the working party 's document is still awaited . |
| 6 | At the date of going to press the class tests have not been significantly revised , but there are a number of proposed detail changes and clarifications . |
| 7 | Oh going to grocer the grocers and and even fetching a quarter of tea for for an old lady you see . |
| 8 | Happily , at the time of going to print the craze is dying a death , as consumers realise that £500 is a lot to pay for something you carry about on one shoulder , and that as a social status symbol it is as impressive as a 1979 Cortina without wheels propped up on bricks . |
| 9 | Today they were going to replaster the house : not just the floor , which they did regularly when it became cracked and dusty , or on special occasions , such as when the house had been polluted by childbirth or death . |
| 10 | Today they were going to replaster the whole house : floors , ceilings , walls — inside and out . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | By the time Compass goes to press the limestone gymnasium at Upper Pen Trwyn will once again be open for arm pumps . |
| 13 | As this issue of The Lifeboat goes to press the 16th International Lifeboat Conference has just come to an end in Oslo . |
| 14 | I went to bed the other night . |
| 15 | Overnight , Corman wrote the start of a screenplay for a piece of nonsense entitled The Terror and hurriedly the cast went to work the next morning to make use of the sets before they were torn down . |
| 16 | The second suspect was a resident of Consett , but on the night in question his wife had given birth to their first child , and the doctor and the midwife both vouched for the fact that the man had never left the house after he came in from work at half-past five until he went to work the next morning , an hour after he had heard his son first cry . |
| 17 | Because I just sort of went to work the following day and I worked away as normal . |
| 18 | KATE went to work the next day rather ashamed of the absurdly flattering photo of herself which had made the gossip column of her daily paper . |
| 19 | ‘ The last time I went to Confession the priest called for a packet of green Rizlas and an ounce of Lebanese Gold . ’ |
| 20 | As we went to press the above pair and another made up of Vic Saunders and Steve Sustad were both making attempts on Ultar from different sides . |
| 21 | As this issue went to press the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis announced its acquisition of 437 multiples by Beuys , rivalling the collections of the artist 's works in the Guggenheim Musem and Dia Center for the Arts in New York . |
| 22 | As The Bookseller went to press the shop was expected to reopen in the afternoon . |
| 23 | Jessamy lifted the receiver and went to press the button . |
| 24 | One morning when they went to school the little bunnies were there in the cage and they were all very happy . |
| 25 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 26 | It seemed a lifetime since she 'd gone to bed the night before . |
| 27 | I 'll go to bed the usual time . |
| 28 | it 's been uppermost in my mind a few times but the I daresay I would n't go to prison the first time . |
| 29 | If I had let him go to hospital the cost to the country would have been about £500 a week . |
| 30 | If we let Blagg go to hospital the cops get him , and he could be up on a murder charge . |