Example sentences of "[was/were] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | I jes ' ordered you t'take charge of the prisoners , told you I wuz goin' t'check on somethin' , an' took off . |
| 2 | ‘ But it 's like this … their church owns the property , an ’ it turned out there 's a heap o' genuine folk in the city end of the organisation , who 'd no idea what wuz goin' on out here . |
| 3 | It would be a tragic loss to theatre if such an important organisation were to go to the wall . |
| 4 | If you were to go ahead it would be strikebreaking . |
| 5 | Devon Malcolm and Angus Fraser opened the bowling and both started as they were to go on . |
| 6 | Even if she were to go voluntarily before the next election , that could only be very bad news for him . |
| 7 | ‘ If we were to go for full indexation , ’ said Jacek Kuron , the Labour Minister , ‘ there would be a mountain of money on the market leading to enormous price increases , with all the dangers that implies , especially for the poor . ’ |
| 8 | Well , I can assure you that if you were to go and look it up , you 'd find complaints against policemen in Easton . |
| 9 | ‘ If I were to go to only one meeting a year for each of them , it would still be more than one a week , ’ he confesses , admitting that it is one of his greatest weaknesses . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It would make better sense if the money which new contractors raised to sustain their bids were to go , as the Campaign for Quality Television ( CQT ) urges , into programme-making . |
| 12 | Many people would lose their jobs if the firm were to go bankrupt ; skills and research would be lost ; for Britain 's largest manufacturer to vanish would be quite a blow . |
| 13 | If one of these groups were to go over to the other side — as the army did in Romania — the balance of forces would be altered . |
| 14 | Fifteen wickets were to go down in all that day , and although Gooch and Robinson made a sound start , once they were separated the procession continued as normal . |
| 15 | Just before we were to go upstairs to be photographed , an agitated Nigel Lawson came up to me saying that he wanted a word . |
| 16 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I recently watched Dorothy Heathcote , halfway through a lesson on preparing for robbing a bank , release some junior school pupils into a free-play experience where they were to go down a manhole and then search the sewers under the bank . |
| 19 | Jellicoe and Zirnheld were to go to El Daba , and the sixth group led by Captains Warr and Schott would aim for Sidi Barrani . |
| 20 | Nothing else would change , though , the north geographic pole would n't move , and if we were to go outside to check up , the sun would still rise and set in the same place , and the Pole Star would appear at night over the local gas works . |
| 21 | The 18+ examinations were seen , as the Secretary of State himself recognized , again partly as another such certificate for those who had stayed the next voluntary two years at school , partly as an aptitude test for those who were to go on to higher education , partly as a still more specific entry requirement for admission to specified courses in institutions of higher education . |
| 22 | If he were to go to the doctor and ask about it , he might find out — ‘ Mind yer backs ! |
| 23 | If Kinsella were to go on a binge , he would drink his way down to the last penny of whatever money is available , irrespective of who it belongs to . ’ |
| 24 | If it was raining , a handbell rung at the door indicated that we were to go straight to the classrooms . |
| 25 | Only the sevens and older were to go , the others being considered too young . |
| 26 | The day came when we were to go to court to legalise the situation . |
| 27 | Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product . |
| 28 | If a scheme for generic substitution were to go ahead , the loss to British companies would not be limited to the so-called ‘ savings ’ to the NHS , but the entire amount of the sales of such products . |
| 29 | It would have been difficult not to qualify for the semi-final , as sixteen were to go through ! |
| 30 | He stopped there and described the way they were to go . |