Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] go [prep] " in BNC.

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1 From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands .
2 She imagined that after playing tennis and having tea , they would go on somewhere and she would like to be available to go with them .
3 There is a tendency therefore for young teachers to be unwilling to go to a rural school ; and for over a third of headteachers to live in the nearest large town .
4 Used to be lovely to go on a trip with him .
5 Microsoft Corp is said to be reconsidering the floor-level pricing it was trying with NT , and is now thought to be unlikely to go with the $99 price .
6 They wanted to be ready to go to the South Pole at the beginning of the next Antarctic summer .
7 Training alone has never bothered me at all , but it 's nice to be able to go down the pub for a good chinwag after a session . ’
8 ‘ It 's hardly petty to want to be able to go for a walk along a public right of way .
9 I asked Joyce what aspect of her phobia she felt still remained and she said that she would like to be able to go into an open space such as a park , where there were likely to be many more birds around .
10 Magazines are fine , but you want to be able to go into bookshops and have access to other people 's minds and lives through fiction .
11 She looked at him with a derision of her own , delighted to be able to go into battle , and she was just standing to leave when there was a noise in another room of the suite as if something had fallen over .
12 ‘ Especially when I was shutting myself away until two or three in the morning , so that I was absolutely certain that I was going to be able to go into the studio a few hours later and deliver something that was believable and complete . ’
13 They like to be able to go to a show and to be able to see something that they do n't see in their everyday lives — you know , catching the bus to go work or coming home on the bus .
14 I think that he , who could have had as many friends as he wished , never realized how much it meant to a lonely and friendless person to have a friend , to be seen walking with him in the rose-red streets of Salamanca , to be able to go to a concert or an art museum with him , to have him opposite me at dinner in even the meanest , cheapest restaurant .
15 You must think yourselves lucky to be able to go to Thrush Green as often as you do . ’
16 Benny was going to be able to go to University College , Dublin , to study for a BA degree because her parents had saved to pay for her .
17 He hoped greatly to be able to go to Oxford in the autumn ; there should be enough money from a sale to support his mother , his brother and himself till he obtained a degree and could earn his living .
18 But I consider myself perfectly competent to be able to go to court , make applications for remand , make pleas of mitigation where there 's a guilty plea and also conduct a case in such a way as to be able to pass it over to someone else in the practice .
19 I used to be able to go to a park and swim , or check out a ball to play with , because they had a part-time supervisor there , then they take that away and the park becomes a land mass , then it becomes a turf , you see ?
20 I realised that I was lucky to be able to go to England and teach .
21 In the fourth year I was lucky enough to be able to go to Kenya and find out what life was like in a hospital there and we had a missionary from my church that was a teacher in Kenya with the African Inland Mission and I went to , really I was nursing erm and helping out there .
22 And I like erm erm knitting and crocheting and I like cycling and I like running and erm I like walking and erm I was very fortunate to be able to go to Nepal the other week .
23 I was lucky to be able to go to school in Parma and not spend all my life in Fontanellato , which was the fate of many ; and on the whole my schooldays were enjoyable .
24 I want to be able to go to his grave on the day of his death .
25 I used to be able to go to bed early and go to sleep .
26 There is , true enough , no bank to poke into — get round the first headland and the next bank is the shore of Svalbard — but it would still be a good idea to be able to go in a straight line .
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