Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [modal v] [adv] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a Manchester mother vowed she would rather go to prison for life than pay a £4,000 bill run up by her son . |
| 2 | I realised Michael could save me maybe five years of work , but I figured I 'd rather go slow and steady than to go fast and have it all fall apart . |
| 3 | ‘ I decided I 'd rather go to a small club and work my way up . |
| 4 | I swore I 'd never go back . |
| 5 | He came up and swore he 'd never go down again , it was no life for an animal ] And he stuck to that . |
| 6 | I told myself I 'd have an abortion , although I knew I could never go through with it , and I was so relieved when my period came . |
| 7 | Well you 've got a lot of things to do and as I say erm , I thought I 'll only go for half an hour , but I did n't really come |
| 8 | She stood with the cape drenched about her , the rain at her back , and knew she would never go back to the Lodge . |
| 9 | Bienvida , being two years his junior , asked wistfully if he thought she would ever go back to Brian . |
| 10 | Emmie thought she could probably go to sleep in less time than anyone else in the world . |
| 11 | I remember I said to Billy something like , ‘ I thought she 'd never go . |
| 12 | I should n't have put it so strongly , but I never thought she 'd actually go … |
| 13 | The next day we went again to the Rovacchia but this time I insisted we should also go and see the crazy Englishman who had ridden the mule . |
| 14 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 15 | He knew he could always go to his mother for help , but pride stopped him . |
| 16 | ‘ It has been a bit painful , but I thought it would probably go away if I ignored it , so I did n't bother seeing my own doctor before we sailed . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Apparently she thought it might just go away . ’ |
| 18 | After today 's hearing Miss Gregg 's solicitor Donald Worsley said he intended to make a bail application to a Judge in Chambers and if this failed he would then go to the High Court . |
| 19 | My mother argued for a while that the dry heat was known to be bracing , but Lili went on to speak of rumours of a cholera epidemic in the rural districts and disaffection among the fellahin and I said I would rather go to Bournemouth , which was a black lie but efficacious since we had gone there for our holidays and my mother seemed gratified that I should wish to return . |
| 20 | I said I would never go back again |
| 21 | She could n't have said nothing to our if she did I should have thought well alright our nan said I must bloody go up but she did n't come up Sunday . |
| 22 | She said she would never go back there . ’ |
| 23 | When a policeman told her it was an offence to deface her driving licence by stabbing a nailfile through her date of birth , she said she 'd rather go to prison . |
| 24 | She wished she could just go back to bed and start the day all over again , only somehow making it turn out completely normal this time . |
| 25 | Childishly , she wished she could still go gardening with him . |
| 26 | he said they may just go one to forty six he said or they may even go forty eight on that one to even it up . |
| 27 | They said they 'd never go away and leave her again . |
| 28 | You said it would never go in the window . ’ |
| 29 | Dr Foley said he 'd just go in and see how that child was in casualty before he left . |