Example sentences of "was [adj] go [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following his visit to Du Pont , Sir Patrick was due to go on to Magherafelt , much of which was destroyed by a bomb explosion yesterday . |
| 2 | He was due to go up to the Blue Mountains that morning and she started having pains , she said . |
| 3 | The former James Bond star got stagefright only weeks before the curtain was due to go up on the original West End show and made a shock exit . |
| 4 | About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District . |
| 5 | ‘ The day before I was due to go back to England he asked me to marry him . |
| 6 | He had previously worked for the firm and was due to go back to it . |
| 7 | Pat saw just how true that was so the night that Ken was due to go out with one of his current close friends . |
| 8 | And then , out of the blue , as she was getting ready for bed on the evening before Kirsty was due to go off on holiday , Mrs Aitken tapped on Shiona 's bedroom door . |
| 9 | Although Patrick Lundy was almost twenty , Katherine still considered him a child and treated him accordingly , and often it was easier to go along with her rather than risk an argument . |
| 10 | At Limoges the Young King was free to go over to the attack . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Her grandfather 's insistence that she was free to go out into the world now and take a course of training was so much nonsense . |
| 13 | Back in the Company 's suite after debriefing — ‘ You 've proved , ’ said Nils without praise — Jezrael was free to go out on the town . |
| 14 | I had said that her view was unreasonable and Syl was free to go out in the evening as he wished . |
| 15 | However , she was prepared to go along with the advisory teacher 's point of view in the sessions and reassured herself concerning her own fears by using whole-class lessons to reinforce what she felt pupils should have discovered . |
| 16 | He was still not sure that he believed that story , but in her misery was prepared to go along with her . |
| 17 | While West Germany , for example , was willing to go along with the proposal ( but only if there was a joint system of ECSC subsidy financing ) , the net importers of coal within the Six — France , Italy and the Netherlands — were totally hostile to the notion of national contributions to a joint financing policy . |
| 18 | She was being racially harassed and was afraid to go out into her garden . |
| 19 | But I was afraid to go back to the village . |
| 20 | There was much going on in world politics at the time , including the Cold War and the Cuba crisis . ’ |
| 21 | It was this loco that regularly worked the 17.09 two coach local from Chesterfield to Sheffield in 1962 , and after school it was customary to go down to the station and wait for it to arrive light engine . |
| 22 | Officially , the force was supposed to go in by invitation only ; avoid looking like the heavy mob ; and not humiliate authorities which felt they were hounded because they were struggling to cope on their own . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | And just when you thought it was safe to go out for the evening , let me remind you that Scotsport Extra Time is back after a week off . |
| 26 | INDIGO GIRLS Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the folk club … |
| 27 | And … a Fish called Zander : Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the water … here comes Jaws ' little brother . |
| 28 | After that I waited at the harbour until it was safe to go back to the beach without seeing the person I was dodging . ’ |
| 29 | JUST when you thought it was safe to go back in the lending library , another Henry Miller novel is unearthed . |
| 30 | In the case of the treaty it gave the opportunity for the Red Army to be created , which at a later date was able to go on to the offensive . |