Example sentences of "was go [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I helped him into bed he said , with some echo of his old authority , that nothing was to change while he was here ; that I was to go on with my work ; that he would teach me to play chess at last ; that he was absolutely thrilled to be out of hospital , and it would be a positive delight to look after himself . |
| 2 | So upon this , my third post-chapel ‘ chat ’ of my first Lent term , ‘ The boy who refused to be confirmed at a Woodard School ’ was launched , and the annual , ‘ All those who have n't been confirmed , stay behind after matins ’ was to go on for four more weary years . |
| 3 | In a remarkable record , he was to go on to win two further bars , in France that year and in Germany in 1945 . |
| 4 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 5 | We were going to travel together as far as Paris , I was to go on to Calais . |
| 6 | Brian , alone of us all , knew how difficult it was to go through with a hunger strike . |
| 7 | What I , my remit to Ken was to go through with Duncan er projects which were over a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 8 | His technique was to go up to one at a literary party and ask her for a cigarette . |
| 9 | She decided that her best hope was to go up to the belvedere and see if she could find any indication at all that someone else had been involved in Gebrec 's death . |
| 10 | I was to go up to his room and tap on the door . |
| 11 | The very last thing she wanted was to go up to Rune 's apartment and drink any more of that transmogrifying liquid that already had so much to answer for ! |
| 12 | ‘ Once she had the key , and whilst her husband signed the formalities , she was to go up to her room , put the handbag containing the Tongue — and money , pearls , and so on — on a ledge as near as possible to a door which was going to be left deliberately ajar . |
| 13 | The plan was to go up towards Salisbury , ( or Harare ) Zimbabwe , and , mindful of the SAM missiles , jump the border at 12,000 ‘ ft ‘ . |
| 14 | Government spending was to go up by 6 per cent , necessitating an exchequer borrowing requirement of 2.4 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) , which was forecast to grow by 2 per cent . |
| 15 | The biggest crime of all was to go round to the front of house or into the street in ‘ full slap ’ , as stage make-up was called . |
| 16 | Her first move was to go round to the various teachers who taught the senior class and borrow from them a number of text-books , books on algebra , geometry , French , English Literature and the like . |
| 17 | And then in between , I was to go round with him , say in the afternoons or some mornings , and he had heard about a fox somewhere . |
| 18 | The easiest way of solving that problem was to go down to Victoria station . |
| 19 | The plan was to go down to the south coast and camp . |
| 20 | He was to go down to the Supersight factory for some practice with Harley and was then to go with him to a couple of the Continental tournaments . ’ |
| 21 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 22 | The only thing he wanted right now was to go back to Jubilee Wood . |
| 23 | The only other alternative was to go back to the cottage , as well he 'd known . |
| 24 | His job was to go out into the bush to take samples and he found it the most unspoilt area on Earth he has ever been to , areas the size of Wales in which no white man has ever set foot . |
| 25 | And one of the reporters came out and er he asked me he 's heard that our decision was to go out for a strike you see . |
| 26 | Mountbatten was to go out to India , announce an early and definite date for British departure , hand over the administrative machine in working order to a unitary government , and secure an alliance with that government in the form of membership of the Commonwealth , preferably with a military treaty . |
| 27 | But anyway , my job was to go out to Toledo . |
| 28 | One of the things he was NEVER NEVER allowed to do , the most exciting of them all , was to go out through the garden gate all by himself and explore the world beyond . |
| 29 | During more than 20 years in the food machinery business , I was a frequent traveller to the USA , and one of the fringe benefits for me was to go along to the tool department of the local Sears Roebuck store . |
| 30 | ‘ He said he was going over to O'Neill 's for an hour . ’ |