Example sentences of "were go [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be seen from the figures in Table 5 which also suggest that the longer the time they had lived in an old people 's home the less likely they were to go into hospital . |
| 2 | They were to go on trial on January 5 charged with lying to Congress about the controversy . |
| 3 | We were to go on foot so as not to disturb the tranquillity . |
| 4 | IF medals were to go on offer for patience then Don Kelly would certainly be entitled to collect one . |
| 5 | Eventually he reached Kirwan and was assured that no South Africans would be involved and that the match has some sanctity as the proceeds were to go to child cancer research — not that that dissuaded some cynics from suggesting that some players may have taken their share . |
| 6 | The day came when we were to go to court to legalise the situation . |
| 7 | But I can remember once when I was at the school Mrs was our music teacher and we were to go from doh to far , you know doh to far , and they used to s , she used to say listen to Mabel , Mabel 's the only one one of you that can go from doh to far . |
| 8 | We were to go by sea . |
| 9 | Jack and Warnie were to go by motorcycle — Daudel as Warnie called it — with Warnie in the saddle and Jack in a low-slung sidecar . |
| 10 | Sorry , I thought you were going onto say and the next one would also be . |
| 11 | He felt as though he were going under dentist 's gas … |
| 12 | The words were going into Charity 's brain but she was n't really registering them , her focus was so concentrated on the rhythm of the CPR . |
| 13 | She braced herself as if she were going into battle , blurting the truth out as she clasped her hands together until the knuckles stood out like bleached bones . |
| 14 | We were going into battle , a new sort of battle , one in which victory was certain . |
| 15 | The instructions were to dive out as though we were going into water . |
| 16 | The regiment had come ashore that morning and were going into action that evening , attacking the village just along the road , about two hundred yards from the edge of our village and close to No. 6 Commando positions . |
| 17 | In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury . |
| 18 | If you were going on holiday before you went you 'd probably have to . |
| 19 | She laughed again as Claudia said that once was too much , and from then on she treated Claudia as if she were going on holiday with the man of her dreams . |
| 20 | If you were going on holiday by yourself |
| 21 | B. T. When you were going on duty , you had to parade at the station at half past , as a rule — a quarter of an hour before the beat . |
| 22 | The Panel Chairman told the parents that their children were well , settling down in their foster homes , and that some were going to school . |
| 23 | That 's including Chippingfield if you had seen it as we saw it when we came here you would recognise how much work has gone into building the town because I was on the the council then I was asked if I would stand for the council which was then only a parish council there was no urban district council that was n't formed for four or five years afterwards and of course , we had to fight for lights everything that , er that we needed we had to fight for because there was no lighting on Netteswell Road where our children were going to school , and there were little ones . |
| 24 | I 've got one brother , but he was younger than me and at that time he were going to school anyway . |
| 25 | And what what was school like when you you were going to school ? |
| 26 | They were first introduced to me when I was 14 by friends who were 16 , 17 , 18 , who at that time were going to Art College and they introduced me as it was then to five-bob deals of black and stuff like that , y'know . |
| 27 | For we were going to sea . |
| 28 | They were working-class grammar school boys and they were going to university . |
| 29 | ‘ Originally we were going to self finance , ’ says Simon Church . |
| 30 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |