Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adj] go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not want to be bothered with the problems she encountered , with water that seemed brackish or ceilings that had cracked — they were her concerns and , as she complained in a letter to Minnie : — I am driven to distraction with those household concerns with which you will be familiar Minnie but then in your case you have but to report them for them to be seen to by the master who will instruct the butler to bring in workmen and I am obliged to go out and seek my own help which is no easy thing . |
| 2 | I am frightened to go on . |
| 3 | ‘ I am frightened to go back . |
| 4 | ‘ For the past few years I have built my life around rugby and I am happy to go on doing that until I ca n't go any further in the game ’ , he said . |
| 5 | I should stay in , I 'm stupid going out again . |
| 6 | He rang just now and I 'm due to go round there this morning . ’ |
| 7 | But now I 've made two trips there and I 'm anxious to go back because I feel I 'm getting tapped in a little better , I 'm getting emotionally connected . |
| 8 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 9 | I 'm sorry to go on about this BBC thing but it does seem important to me . ’ |
| 10 | Of course it does , we look at the guidance notes , and they say things like the police and the health authorities want erm , larger units the size of the present County Council , I 'm sorry to go on . |
| 11 | I just say that I 'm sorry go on do n't want to be dejective this evening but I mean minutes will be taken notes will be taken points have been raised I think that 's a very valuable point that you 've actually have raised . |
| 12 | We all know the great fiction that the Lab is independent of the police and I 'm happy to go along with it most of the time . |
| 13 | I 'm foolish going along with you even this far . |
| 14 | Yes I , I , I 'm inclined to go along with that to some extent , I remember once er I think it was eighty four , because in eighty four or was it eighty four ? |
| 15 | I 'm sure I 'm fit to go back to work . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Look , I 'm supposed to go down and do another five minutes of charm and chat with the ladies in the kitchen now they 've done their stuff . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm supposed to go in first thing in the mornings too , to light the stoves and dust round . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm afraid to go out |
| 19 | I 'm ready to go up now look ! |
| 20 | Sometimes when I 'm ready to go out , he 'll say that looks really good , other times nothing . |
| 21 | About half an hour before I was due to go off , he made my half-hour point . |
| 22 | ‘ The day before I was due to go back to England he asked me to marry him . |
| 23 | Course I ye , I walked up the top of Clarendon Road there when a I was first going out to work up there old Bill . |
| 24 | I was reluctant to go out again ; I just sat on the bed , trembling . |
| 25 | I 'd left with nothing because he was still in the house and I was terrified to go back . |
| 26 | I was frightened to go back to the place that had torn me apart . ’ |
| 27 | Well no , no I , I , I 'd got a cycle and er the money was very useful to us cos er my husband , he worked on the , on the top of at Parcel he could n't go down , they were n't allowed underneath er because he wore glasses , anyone wearing glasses they were n't allowed underground you see and they had to work on what they call on the surface , and of course the wages were n't , were n't much and er I was glad to go out to work and er and I , I eventually I had a cycle and I used to cycle to Squires and back you know , and erm it was , it was very very useful indeed the money I , I , I earned there . |
| 28 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 29 | I had to wait impatiently till I was free to go down there , and huddled uncomfortably among the book-stacks I turned up the page with trembling fingers . |
| 30 | ‘ I had to leave when my father died , to look after my mother , and it was n't until the late Sixties that I was free to go back to work . |