Example sentences of "could go [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 2 | ‘ We could play the US again tonight , it could go along the same pattern and we would end up winning 4–2 or 5–2 because of the chances we created . ’ |
| 3 | He either could go for the vital boundary himself , or back his and his partner 's ability to hold fast for the remaining three overs and also gather the runs as insurance . |
| 4 | I asked Mum if I could go on the Pill . |
| 5 | And I think that could be the area , or the the type of development which could go on the flats . |
| 6 | You see what you could do , is you could go on the Friday and I could pick you up Saturday evening . |
| 7 | Olivetti said that stringing 24 CPUs together was as high as Pyramid could go with the R3000 . |
| 8 | You could go with the travel club , I suppose , but then you do n't get the chance to come down the Three Goats Heads pub in the city centre before and after the match and meet everyone else from the list — hopefully . |
| 9 | Well I mean you could go with the new treasurer , but they would drive , so erm . |
| 10 | This could go across the mud and it easily . |
| 11 | An EC-EFTA meeting on Dec. 19 made progress in discussions on the European Economic Area or EEA ( the term now adopted in preference to " European Economic Space " or EES — see pp. 37134 ; 37535 ) , and it was anticipated that these EC-EFTA talks would now reach a conclusion by mid-1992 such that an EEA agreement could go through the various ratification processes and take effect on Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 12 | Right , now what I 'd like to do now is ask you for some of your , some names of friends of yours who , who I could go through the same process with them and , and establish their financial security for them too . |
| 13 | John Durno , governor of Saughton prison , said yesterday that up to 200 prisoners could go through the programme in the year . |
| 14 | It was all right for men , they could go over the side . |
| 15 | In a rough-house , there were some constables who , even their colleagues recognized , could go over the top . |
| 16 | ‘ Once in the VAT field it must however be appreciated that a business could go over the 7,200 threshold , as a result of increased business activity or even an increase in the rate of VAT . |
| 17 | MORE than 11,000 civil service jobs in Scotland are under threat and thousands more could go over the next few years , the Civil and Public Services Association leader , Barry Reamsbottom , will state at a rally tomorrow . |
| 18 | I think I could go to the food industry or to the brewing industry . |
| 19 | If you went to Sunday school every week you could go to the seaside free . |
| 20 | ‘ Listen , we could go to the Baltic — ’ naming a horribly expensive café and one far beyond his means — ‘ it 's only a few stops on the bus — ’ |
| 21 | He also showed his inexperience by asking Gerry Gomez , his captain , if he could be substituted so that he could go to the airport to meet his sister . |
| 22 | They almost certainly could go to the services of any Free Church and not be insulted . |
| 23 | ‘ I — uh — thought we could go to the beach or something , ’ he offered . |
| 24 | She could go to the synagogue and to large shopping centres as before , without having to worry about coping with stairs or moving about in crowds . |
| 25 | ‘ We could go to the Rose and Thorn ! ’ said Donald . |
| 26 | There was a number of men who had passed for Sergeant 's rank , and the only way they could get it was to report another policeman so they could go to the chief constable on a discipline charge . |
| 27 | The older girls drifted off into one of their exclusive conversations and Sally bit her lip against the rasp of Louise 's massager and wished desperately that she could go to the youth club dance too . |
| 28 | We could go to the pictures , ’ and she agreed happily . |
| 29 | Another friend of mine , a man who spent most of his adult life looking after his elderly parents until they both died within a year of each other , came home from work one evening and suddenly realised that he could go to the cinema and have a meal out without worrying about anyone else . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , with you gone I could go to the DHSS , could n't I ? |