Example sentences of "to go [adv] [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 2 | We are , he observed , only too willing to make this sort of leap , and not only in the field of theology ( Hume was also very critical of what he saw as the pretensions of the science of his day to uncover the ‘ hidden springs ’ of things ) , but we need to be much more modest and cautious , to realise how limited the scope of our experience and knowledge is , and how liable our minds to go astray when they over-reach themselves and fish in waters too deep for their lines to plumb . |
| 3 | Nanny and rotten news seem to go together if you ask me . |
| 4 | The others were all getting ready to go ashore when it happened . ’ |
| 5 | No sooner had I turned away to go downstairs than I heard a strange , ghostly laugh . |
| 6 | She slowed her pace , willing him to go away before she drew close . |
| 7 | As he left the room he urged Elisa not to go away before he got back . |
| 8 | Older children may find it helps to go away until they have coped with their feelings and can discuss them . |
| 9 | Clusters and nerves well again I always felt that nerves were supposed to go away when you got good at things , now I 'm pleased to discover that is n't true . |
| 10 | ‘ That 's so 's you do n't have to go outside if you wants to go to the toilet , ’ he explained . |
| 11 | But if you were to say ‘ I believe so ’ or ‘ I doubt it ’ , we might not prepare the meal but we could hardly plan to go elsewhere until we had heard from you more definitely . |
| 12 | Talking audio visual that 's an event that is taking place with S S K in Glasgow on the second of February I 'm disappointed by the number of people who have said that they want to go largely because we 've gone out of our way to do something in Glasgow |
| 13 | It 's great to go slow where you 've got houses , children and all the other things , but I , Avenue , which is on er plan five , is one of the radial roads that goes through the centre of erm out in the direction and to put a thirty mile an hour speed limit on this I think is totally unrealistic . |
| 14 | His latest speech seemed to go further than he had ever gone before in advocating force to achieve the kind of England he wanted . |
| 15 | Our horses had more sense and refused to go further so we stabled them at a local inn where we satisfied our hunger on a dish of fish cooked over charcoal before making our way up to the castle . |
| 16 | Well , there I was in London , penniless ; like the man in the gospel , I was too proud to go home so I begged and fought with the rest of the dispossessed in the dirty alleyways and streets of Whitechapel , Alsatia , and even across London Bridge amongst the stews of Southwark . |
| 17 | and she had to go home before it finished . |
| 18 | Mm We 're on number three she 's not allowed to go home till she 's done at least seven ! |
| 19 | ‘ Everyone ought to go home if they 've got a home to go to . |
| 20 | So it but it was easier for you to go home if you wanted to I suppose . |
| 21 | They were just about to go home when they found you . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ In the end , they told me to give him a bottle because he was too hungry to feed properly , but looking back I 'm sure it was because they did n't have time to help me ; and after two days I had to go home because they needed the bed . |
| 23 | stopped , and then prefer to go like when they appealed because he 'd knocked them again . |
| 24 | I waited for three buses to go past before I got on to one . |
| 25 | ‘ It would probably be a good time to go now before it gets too crowded . ’ |
| 26 | It is time to go now if you intend to go today . |
| 27 | ‘ This is one of the biggest road construction contracts ever undertaken in Northern Ireland and we have not had to go overseas because we have the local skills to do it . ’ |
| 28 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 29 | No wonder only 10 per cent of American adults have a valid passport ; why bother to go abroad when you have all this at home . |
| 30 | You ca n't stop that , I mean that 's what I 've said to the Press , you do n't want him to go abroad because I think everybody 's going to miss that , because there are are n't too many that can do things like he does . |