Example sentences of "been [vb pp] to go [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The two friends had been forbidden to go near the Welsh bog where Matthew , 11 , got stuck on Saturday while they were out cycling . |
2 | The countdown to Gloucester Rugby Club 's semi-final got off to a flying start to day with the news that forward , Mike Teague , has been selected to go on the British Lions seven week tour of Australia this summer . |
3 | He 's been told to go to the office so many times it like yeah , yeah , alright ! |
4 | I wanted my mum or Ian , but my mum was at home and Ian had been told to go into the waiting room . |
5 | I have been invited to go through the Town Chest belonging to Bishop 's Castle Town Council , to investigate material in the chest pertaining to the Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
6 | The Health and Safety Inspectorate was informed of the incident and representatives from the electricity board had been asked to go to the scene . |
7 | White may be a very good player and Wilko could have ‘ fancied him ’ , but Rocky should not have been allowed to go in the opposite direction , and as for the ‘ Cantona thing ’ I think that decision will haunt Wilkinson to the grave . |
8 | She had been forced to go to the Refuge . |
9 | Mandamus sometimes issues in conjunction with certiorari to require a body whose decision has been quashed to go through the decision-making process again . |
10 | In the absence of both the ‘ political will ’ and the social forces which would have been required to go beyond the merely ‘ indicative ’ and technocratic attempt to alleviate the balance of payments constraint , the Wilson government used the only effective levers at its disposal to maintain the external balance : the old standby of fiscal deflation ; incomes policy , to hold down both labour costs of British firms and consumer spending on imports ; and then eventually devaluation of the currency which , although it did not abolish the trade constraint , at least temporarily pre-empted speculative pressure on the pound and brought a period of increased price competitiveness . |