Example sentences of "[prep] be [adj] go [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very nature of their distress means that they are likely to be unable to go out and face the social whirl , at least initially . |
| 2 | The RCM seemed to be prepared to go along with this , until they discovered that Willy was also in trouble with his employer , a Jeweller who caught the boy pocketing a silver cigarette case . |
| 3 | Why was she making excuses anyway ? she scoffed , as a flick of a glance to the small and feminine watch on her wrist showed she should leave her room to be ready to go down for when the taxi arrived . |
| 4 | If she was put into skischool for half a day then one adult had to forgo any skiing for that period , since after delivering the child to the skischool meeting place in the centre of the village the travelling time to the slopes was too long to be able to go up , ski and be back down in time to pick up the child from the skischool in the centre of the village again at the end of her lesson . |
| 5 | Val was more indignant than Roland about this event , and her indignation upset him as much as his own failure , for he liked Fergus and wanted to be able to go on liking him . |
| 6 | We 're not going to be able to go on as we are . |
| 7 | You did want to be able to go around all them works , what , what was it with the |
| 8 | You used to be able to go along to a pottery , say , and say , ‘ What was going on here at about eight o'clock this morning ? ’ … |
| 9 | She … she wanted to provide me with something to be able to go off with Emma where he could n't get at her . |
| 10 | And without filling the giant-sized hole in her stomach there was no way she was going to be able to go off to sleep . |
| 11 | Also , not to be able to take part in things and not to be able to go out in the evening I find difficult . |
| 12 | ‘ Within an hour the headache had vanished , the sickness was fading and I felt bright enough to be able to go out . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ All I want is to be able to go out and play with my friends , ’ she says . |
| 14 | Now we 're not going to be able to go out and check where , which way that every pound is spent . |
| 15 | Although it is fun to be able to go out every weekend I 've learnt that being rich is not all it first appears to be . |
| 16 | I was sad not to be able to go back to Fulham for St Cecilia 's Day . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've come too far from the ways of men to be able to go back now … but we must get away from that sea ! ’ |
| 18 | Over and above that , obviously this is where the advantage to the policy holder comes in because obviously if they get a gearbox problem that 's going to cost , say , a hundred and eighty pounds in six months time , they 're not going to be able to go back to the dealer and say look I want you to put this right for me , because obviously it is outside the statutory guarantee . |
| 19 | And er then er these two erm er Then when we used to when we was the young you used to be able to go down to Skeggie for a day on train for two and six . |
| 20 | Ten years from now I 'm gon na be 52 , and I 'm not going to be able to go down the Hacienda without looking a complete prat . |
| 21 | Well , my feeling is , and it 's really the same message that you get from most greens and most environment books , is that under-consumption , that is poverty in the poor countries , is linked to over-consumption in the rich countries , and we have to grasp this nettle — it 's one that the Conservative Party in its White Paper on the environment avoids noticeably — we have to grasp the nettle , that as long as we are over-consuming there 's not going to be enough to go round everywhere , and my book shows that this pattern is really a three hundred year old pattern dating from the first Colonial expansion of Europe and the slave trade , and it 's still going on today . |
| 22 | Stotland ( 1977 ) drew a portrait of the executive 's motives for being prepared to go along with corporate crime . |