Example sentences of "to go [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gave excitement , the opportunity to go off duty early or at least to return to the warmth and relative conviviality of the police station , as well as prestige … |
| 2 | erm well would , w w would anybody want to advocate that , yes , the option was to go for collectivization fairly quickly ? |
| 3 | I think I 'll have to go for Sheridan too — he was my kind of player , comfortable on the ball , good passer , and took excellent free kicks too . |
| 4 | The emphasis of Paul is clear , we are to go for quality both in our performance and in the way we conduct ourselves in the workplace . |
| 5 | Robin-Anne , who had been looking very apprehensive , seemed to go aboard Wavebreaker rather unwillingly . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's had to go through Mordecai precisely because he is a Copt . |
| 7 | Lasting impressions so far : the sun ( miraculously ) shining on the slopes of Dalwhinnie , far in the north , on the first leg of the journey ; stumbling across Drew from the World Cup holiday in a motorway café somewhere in England in the middle of the night ; breakfast and mineral water with Claire ( oh , it was good to see her ) in an Italian cafe near London Victoria ; people throwing up all over the joint on the Seacat crossing to Boulogne ( and me staggering about , legs way out of control , on the deck , getting soaked by the spray , saltwater taste in the mouth , and a rainbow arcing on top of the water behind the catamaran ) ; complaining English and American tourist ( ‘ It 's ridiculous that we have to go through customs — why do we have to go through customs anyway ? … ) ; terrible fatigue on the train to Paris , and temperamental French men shouting and swearing at each other in the aisle ; relief at finding Angela 's flat in Paris ; difficult negotiation of the very narrow stairwell , finally finding her way at the top on the 6th floor ; food , and wine , and a shower , and a bed-settee for the night ; Japanese tourists at Notre Dame , and a man announcing his state of poverty and homelessness on the Métro — ‘ ‘ . |
| 8 | Perhaps they were going to go after Hasan now . |
| 9 | Benny said she did n't want anyone they did n't know , and it was with some relief that they heard the niece Clodagh did n't want to go amongst strangers either . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're not to go near Sam tomorrow , do you hear ? ’ he said . |
| 11 | Give us more freedom in the afternoon if we need to go into Wokingham instead , do you want to go that way for a change or this , or through the woods ? |
| 12 | I 've got to go into work tomorrow by the way . |
| 13 | Balancing the tray , to which Mrs Darrell had kindly added the plate containing those cream cakes which she had not managed to devour , she heard her say to Dr Neil , ‘ You really ought to go into society again , my dear . |
| 14 | The FRISC was apparently intended to go into systems eventually . |
| 15 | Jean 's own mother , who had been a domestic servant , wanted her daughter to go into service too , and certainly did not push her into printing . |
| 16 | As I said , I will resist the temptation to go into detail here , 4 and offer only certain points to weigh as you consider the case . |
| 17 | I do not want to go into detail now , but that is certain . |
| 18 | However , the Canadian multicentre post-term pregnancy trial group found that women allowed to go into labour spontaneously had a higher rate of caesarean section ( 24.5% ) than those who had labour induced ( 21.2% ) because of an increased incidence of fetal distress in the first stage . |
| 19 | And whilst it was never , it could never have been God 's will for Naomi to backslide with Elimelech her husband , and to go into Moab out of the mess that they make of their life , out of the mistakes that they , they perpetrate again and again , God somehow in his graciousness , in his mercy brings goodness from it ! |
| 20 | She gave the young MacGregor a book on Parliament but he did not read it at the time , and he can not trace his decision to go into politics back to that . |
| 21 | A proposed Interior Department regulation , to go into effect shortly after the presidential election , effectively takes on board the recent court rulings , and provides for compensation payments to all coal owners affected . |
| 22 | Lambert who was leading on this occasion , ordered the formation to go into line astern for the attack . |
| 23 | In a time of severe agricultural depression , for example , the landlord might do better to allow his tenant farmers to go into arrears rather than exercise his legal rights , in the hope that over time things would balance out . |
| 24 | Cos I said seeing as you 've got to go into town tomorrow |
| 25 | I am going to go into town more , on my night off , and just hang around where I 'm told the prostitutes stand . |
| 26 | Another example of Herbert 's attitude is that , although he advised John to go into business rather than art , he raised no objection when John insisted on becoming a dancer , and in fact helped him . |
| 27 | Burmans are wanting to go into business more — a little group of Burmese businessmen have formed an industrial corporation ; young Burmans are doing well in the petrol and kerosene retail trade . |
| 28 | Conceptually , all readmissions are bad , since to go into hospital again may be a profoundly disturbing and negative experience for the patient ( i.e. a poor patient outcome ) . |
| 29 | All back together again yes , I 've got to go into hospital on erm well , tomorrow actually for erm another operation erm that 's to have a plate taken out of erm the collar bone which I broke in the middle of last season . |
| 30 | A possible ( relatively ) benign explanation might be presented for GPs ' failure to pursue a non compulsory route : that women , whose conventional role involves running the home and family , would be less willing to go into hospital precisely because of their feelings of responsibility for others in the home . |