Example sentences of "[vb past] to go the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ali failed to go the route for the first time in his career . |
| 2 | But in this case , the evidence seemed to go the other way , and was the express reason why the magistrates dismissed the charges . |
| 3 | I decided to go the house a few gardens away where a few pitiful meows brings some food from the woman . |
| 4 | Mortified by the twist in his sobriety , George decided to go the whole hog and join the Total Abstinence Society . |
| 5 | Taking a deep breath we elected to go the whole hog and print 16 pages . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , whereas the rest of the passengers were basically gearing up to tear my girlfriend and me to bits if we continued to go the way we were going — you get a kind of cabin fever on these flights between Australia and England — this Christian and his wife decided to adopt us , I guess as a kind of test for themselves . |
| 7 | ‘ I was n't sure about making the sharp turn into the fifth fence , but Ted told me I had to go the fast way everywhere otherwise I had no hope of winning , ’ Mac said . |
| 8 | He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that . |
| 9 | Poor Keith had to go to this , he had to go the station every day on his bike |
| 10 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 11 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 12 | I 'm sorry he had to go the way he did , but it was always going to happen , the sort of man he was . |
| 13 | She was left to bring up a family she had to go the banks for money the banks were all and they refused her money to keep the farm going . |
| 14 | Warning that workers at the mine could suffer from silicosis and that dust from the mine could have a devastating effect on the local soil chemistry , Mr Wilson said it was cheaper to manufacture andalusite artificially , and wondered why Navan Resources wished to go the expense of mining it : ‘ To make it in any way economically feasible to mine this , it would have to represent over 30 per cent of the total of the rock formation of the mountain and this means that almost one third of your mountain would disappear ’ . |
| 15 | Mr Patten told legislators : ‘ We wished to go the extra mile and give the Chinese side every opportunity to respond . |
| 16 | Since most Christian teachers are kind persons who prefer to avoid controversy when they can , and doodle anxiously during fierce argument at meetings , things tended to go the way of Bethune-Baker ; partly because he was devastating , and partly because often he was devastatingly right . |
| 17 | Why so many coming this way when she wanted to go the other ? |
| 18 | Er yeah and if you were a , if you were a rightist cadre that had doubts about all this and actually wanted to go the slow more moderate line , you could also find enough in here to be able to , to sort of curtail things a bit ? |
| 19 | But they would n't let us in , if we wanted to go the match we had to pay . |