Example sentences of "would go [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 If you lit a match in our kitchen , it 'd go up with a roar . ’
2 If I met him we 'd go out for a meal .
3 You see , and we , we remember last time we did something , we 'd go down into a or scout movement where
4 So he asked me if I 'd go in for a couple of weeks until he got something sorted out you know .
5 Erm if I understand it correctly from from Mr Potter 's er table nine , the implication would be that the the Greater York figure would go up to a hundred and sixty one hectares based on thirty four to the acr hectare , that is correct ?
6 Ernie , who was employed by him , would go up on a Sun day to feed his stock and unbeknown to Dick Gooding would bring the old mule back with him , hitch him to the hand cart and pull it over to Birling Bank , this went on for some time and poor old Dick knew nothing of these goings on .
7 Then a man would go up on a ladder outside and put a hook on a chain around the ridge tree .
8 They said the mules would go round by a good track but we 'd explore the river .
9 ULSTER 's amateur actors have dramatically upstaged the bombers — by ensuring that their show would go on despite a £1,000 blast .
10 Few of Camille 's schoolmates , even had they been able to read and write , would go on to a career in the sciences , since the chemistry lab had been the first to succumb , years back , when the rules had just been relaxed and attitudes to education liberalized .
11 He would go out for a walk , leaving me alone for an hour , then return full of high spirits , shouting from the doorway : .
12 Occasionally , after a particularly trying day , we would go out for a drink together — but no more Apricot Sunsets , thank you very much .
13 As soon as she 'd freshened up she would go out for a meal and see something of the city and the people who lived here .
14 Then I 'd go down the town buy us all clothes then , you and I would go out for a private dinner Jean .
15 I used to go back home via the local Underground and I 'd take six of our Irish doormen with me , all of them six foot three , and they 'd take the rollers from the roller towels in the Gents and they 'd stand around me , and we would go out in a ‘ flying wedge ’ .
16 S. H. The kids — many a time you would go about with a dozen bloody sweets in your pocket .
17 Yet although my addresses were chiefly in the nature of pep-talks , I usually contrived to work in what today would be called ‘ culture ’ , and sometimes the pub scene in The Waste Land or parts of Portrait of a Lady would go down with a wow .
18 Normally following that kind of response the ramp idea would go down like a lead balloon .
19 ‘ I bet this would go down like a lead balloon if it was known in Grantley police station .
20 Cup of tea would go down like a bomb but
21 Five clubs would go down from a reformed league of 14 clubs in the First Division , with the Second Division champions being promoted .
22 He would he would go in as a boy , but a rivet boy a heater as we called them .
23 He would go off into a musing in the outfield .
24 Seven of our Section were detached for a fortnight to make our creche , so each day after parade they would go off with a Corporal to hump sand , fill wheelbarrows with moss and look for things to add to the project .
25 I know she became somewhat lonely because her husband , although he was a very hard worker , would go off on a spree for some days at a time .
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