Example sentences of "go [adv] to an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances of going on to an additional baby from a given family size ( ‘ parity progression ratios ’ ) can be calculated from past data for women who have completed their families . |
| 2 | We 're going out to an expensive restaurant , a very expensive restaurant , the sort of place Selina can dress up for |
| 3 | I 've got out of the way of , I 've often said to Dinda , you know , I would n't mind going back to an open fire in the winter . |
| 4 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 5 | It was like going back to an old friend , familiar and almost cosy . |
| 6 | It is incredible that the Labour party , which has reformed itself and brought itself up to date in so many other policies , is going back to an old policy on local government finance . |
| 7 | Perhaps it 's the editor of Living Marxism who should think about going back to an educational establishment ? |
| 8 | The decision to abandon the Pavillon de Flore as a permanent exhibition space goes back to an official report drawn up before I.M. Pei started work on renovating the Museum and building his pyramid . |
| 9 | This need for the father probably goes back to an earlier stage of childhood than the phallic-Oedipal one to which we have so far confined our attention . |
| 10 | From the drawing or painting of a real aquarium one could go on to an imagined aquarium and allow the children to invent fishes of their own design and colour , and other water creatures , shells , etc . |
| 11 | Gomes went on to an unbeaten century , thanks to Malcolm Marshall . |
| 12 | He said he was to have met another man at a school on Garscube Road in Maryhill and go on to an unknown warehouse . |
| 13 | We went down to an awful Wimpy Bar opposite Chagueramas — which later became The Roxy . |
| 14 | I sometimes go down to an 18 when maggot fishing or a single brandling or grain of sweetcorn on a 16 , but it is not very often such refinements are necessary . |
| 15 | He went over to an ornate walk-in fireplace surmounted by heraldic animal heads carved in stone and pulled a fraying red cord . |
| 16 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 17 | If society is to impose extra burdens on farmers ' costs of production in order to preserve or go back to an idyllic view of the countryside , which may never have existed anyway , it must pay for it . |
| 18 | But Rose 's looks went back to an earlier time with big , wide eyes and strong yet delicate profile . |
| 19 | Horns go back to an older world where surrenders were not accepted , to the dead defiant Roland rather than the brave , polite , compromise-creating Sir Gawain , whose dinner is served to ‘ nwe nakryn noyse ’ — the sound of chivalric kettledrums . |
| 20 | Conservationists have gone back to an ancient method of catching ducks , using a dog to lure the birds into a net . |
| 21 | Gaveston rose and went across to an old , ironbound chest , taking a ring of keys from a gold chain which hung around his neck . |