Example sentences of "[conj] go [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who boards a certain ferry or walks down a certain street or enters a certain building or goes through a certain door disappears for ever into that other city . ’ |
| 2 | If my mum wants to go out , or goes to work , I stay at home and look after the girls , and vice versa . |
| 3 | First , whereas the implied terms relating to goods supplied under a contract of sale , or any other type of supply contract , are classified by statute as conditions , the implied term requiring work to be performed with reasonable skill and care will normally be an intermediate stipulation ( SGSA 1982 , s13 ) so that breach will only justify termination of the contract if the breach is serious or goes to the root of the contract . |
| 4 | 5.1 If at any time before completion of the Lease the Tenant ( being an individual ) dies or has a receiving order made against him or is adjudicated bankrupt or ( being a company ) has a petition presented for its winding up or goes into liquidation or ( in either case ) enters into a composition with his or its creditors then the provisions of clause 5.4 shall have effect immediately |
| 5 | Well he does , he goes in on Saturdays very often , he goes in on Sundays very often , you know , goes up to have a look at a site or goes into the office to look over something in peace without the phone ringing all that 's sort of thing , he puts in a lot of time that 's not strictly accounted for , Gerry did , I did as a teacher , but then we were well paid . |
| 6 | These factors include : whether the interval is within a particular hour or goes across hours ; and whether or not the minutes are multiples often . |
| 7 | Who comes or goes in these rooms is my business , not yours ! ’ |
| 8 | Today by some bonus of chance they were being left there to enjoy it and had not been interrupted with a call for tea or to go for a swim with Dad who had just come home . |
| 9 | ‘ Really , there are only three options — to let the company wither and die , to find a successor , or to go for a flotation . |
| 10 | travel to arrange the funeral , or to go to the funeral ( one return journey only ) |
| 11 | Or to go to the police and report her as a Fifth Columnist . ’ |
| 12 | So Zuwaya said it was indecent for a father and his sons to listen together to women drumming at circumcisions , or to go to weddings together — even to speak about weddings to each other . |
| 13 | If they did set out on a journey , it was usually on business or a pilgrimage or to go to war . |
| 14 | They express current mood , state of finance , preparation to take part in sport , or to go to work . |
| 15 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 16 | Whitechurch was shown the works by Mr G. Coker , chief draughtsman : ‘ There are two chief ways of seeing the works , either to begin at the finished coach and work backwards to the details , or to go to the beginning first and work upwards , but , at all events , you shall see as much as we can show you in a day ’ . |
| 17 | But in many cases boys and girls leave home at around eighteen to get work , for further training , or to go to university . |
| 18 | The children can also become antagonistic towards the parents and refuse to get out of bed or to go to the lavatory . |
| 19 | For example , they may force the potentially inefficient firms either to join them in adopting cost-saving innovations which involve some disruption of current working practices , or to go to the wall . |
| 20 | ‘ Until then , they could n't even ask for a glass of water or to go to the toilet . |
| 21 | He had decided not to go straight home , or to go to the pub yet . |
| 22 | The highest ranking muderrises-those at the Suleymaniye medreses -go to certain named kadiliks such as Damascus and Aleppo , for example , while the muderrises of the next two lower classes — the and the — may choose either to take up kadiliks such as those of Jerusalem , Baghdad and Filibe , or to go to the next higher rank of medrese . |
| 23 | Or you may be a carer looking for help to enable you to take a break , either for regular short spells , or to go on holiday or in an emergency . |
| 24 | When he can walk outside confidently , the patient can plan to increase the distance he walks , or to go on the same route , but taking less time to complete his walk . |
| 25 | Before the industrial revolution of the early nineteenth century people travelled mainly for two reasons : either for business , or to go on a pilgrimage . |
| 26 | Even if you do n't need the money for domestic or emergency reasons , you might need a holiday somewhere special — to go to your daughter 's wedding in Australia — or to go on a second honeymoon . |
| 27 | Except to tell me to stop or to go on neither of them spoke throughout the whole hour of the journey to Amsterdam . |
| 28 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 29 | Well you see as part of the appraisal thing , if you get w w when we 've done it so far we 've got people to actually , and I did myself , one of the stages after the preliminary meeting is to complete a self assessment , or to go through some self assess assessments , self appraisal . |
| 30 | According to Foujita , the dealer 's ‘ method ’ was ‘ to sit reading a paper on the esplanade or to go into hotels , presumably with a rendezvous with a duke or some important person , but nothing came of all this ’ . |