Example sentences of "was [verb] to go [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that last sally was intended to go below the belt , it failed ; the ‘ better men than you ’ line was worked out long ago . |
| 2 | The series of which this book is a part was intended to go beyond the conventional textbook by introducing its readers to sources and methods . |
| 3 | ‘ From what she told me , Mellor was tipped to go to the top . ’ |
| 4 | The Spaniards had put about a cover story that the fleet assembled at Cadiz was being made ready to sail to Sicily and Ormonde was forbidden to go near the port ; he was to be picked up from Corunna . |
| 5 | ‘ And how did she know he was dying to go to the match ? ’ |
| 6 | I even went , I was dying to go to the toilet so I thought oh I 'll go down to the big er and I had no toilet paper so I 'll go down to the big toilets and shower rooms . |
| 7 | Bren was dying to go to the pub . |
| 8 | The bill , which was expected to go before the Chamber of Deputies after the municipal and regional elections in May 1990 , prohibited ownership of a daily newspaper to anyone owning three or more television stations . |
| 9 | A vote on the bill to divide Czechoslovakia was expected to go before the Assembly on Oct. 1 . |
| 10 | I do n't know why I think maybe the , the tablets helped , but erm I was saying I was kind of having second thoughts whether I was wanting to go on the H R T or |
| 11 | Despite this one Macchi of the 79 a Squadriglia was seen to go into the sea between Gozo and Cap Scalambria possibly due to oxygen starvation of the pilot , Serg.Magg . |
| 12 | When Rajiv was persuaded to go into the family business by his mother in 1980 , Sonia was against it . |
| 13 | I was told to go to the telephone . |
| 14 | So I was told to go to the dermatologist . |
| 15 | And within er a week I was told to go into the dry part , handling , in the buffing shop . |
| 16 | I have looked around the faces before games in the past wondering who was going to go to the wire with a home crowd after your blood , never mind the opposition . |
| 17 | Mm there 's the Bare Naked Ladies er they come from Canada they are a brilliant group I think they 're brilliant I do n't care I like them and that 's called er Be My Yoko Ono I was going to go from the Bare Naked Ladies it was all planned I was going to go and say Mary Whitehouse how are you today and she was there er un unfortunately we 've we called this is serious . |
| 18 | And there were two more people in front of me that was waiting to go on the course . |
| 19 | In 1981 Vitalis Okoth from St Paul 's Parish , Mbaga , was invited to go on the course . |
| 20 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
| 21 | He was set to go in the autumn , but he did not run away from that one — he got the editors of five friendly newspapers to run away for him . |
| 22 | ‘ After that , totally by chance , I was asked to go on the road with Mike and the Mechanics and it fitted around the 1989 work I was doing with the Floyd . |
| 23 | She said she was asked to go to the bank to sign away the house . |
| 24 | There was a little food left over from yesterday , so she managed to achieve a meagre lunch ; but in the afternoon she was forced to go to the village again to buy some provisions . |
| 25 | His task was made easier when Marcel Albers , the second-placed Dutchman , after setting the fastest lap , was forced to go into the pit with electrical problems . |
| 26 | The book is said to mention a letter from the Duke of Edinburgh to the princess , warning her to toe the line , and claims the princess was forced to go on the present tour as a publicity stunt to demonstrate the couple 's unity . |
| 27 | She 'd had her first transfusions and was preparing to go to the hospital for her next one when world events took over . |
| 28 | Eva had only been at Usher a couple of months and was preparing to go to the International College for Officers ( ICO ) in London on a refresher course after her long years overseas . |
| 29 | The vessel sank as the Aberdeen lifeboat was preparing to go to the aid of the stricken boat . |
| 30 | Er , costing for parallel , repeat jobs , that 's been dealt with by Simon erm , Client contact record I think that 's now been assimilated into new procedures yes we have just talked about that er sub- contracting you have probably dealt with that , although we have n't discussed it yes er , list of procedure owners I have prepared and reissued it , I do n't how wide they have circulated it , it was meant to go into the Quality Manual , and the Quality Manual is not being re-circulated until March time . |