Example sentences of "[vb past] it to go " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told it to go something |
| 2 | We borrowed it to go out with . |
| 3 | What would he do with Harry 's body when he found it at last , but toss it back again to go downstream as he willed it to go , and leave its poor slender bones scattered all along the banks of Severn without a name or a resting-place ? |
| 4 | None of us expected it to go to the proportions it has gone to . |
| 5 | Everything was the same as it had been when he left it to go to the club the night before last . |
| 6 | The old maestro having been asked to give a last exhibition of his art , no one wished it to go wrong . |
| 7 | Everyone wanted it to go well — and , after a tentative start , it did . |
| 8 | She wanted it to go on for ever and ever ! |
| 9 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 10 | Explanations in the intentional mode express the relation between the action and the reason ( e.g. , John wound up the car because he wanted it to go ) . |
| 11 | John wound up the toy car because he wanted it to go . |
| 12 | *John wound up the toy car so he wanted it to go . |
| 13 | It was so wonderful and I wanted it to go on forever . |
| 14 | Then when he wanted it to go again he used to get the th the belt , the leather belt , and er sort of hook it on to the lower end of the cast iron pulley and follow it round until it went on . |
| 15 | With skill borne of long practice he let the old man talk but guided his talk in the way he wanted it to go , then he started to ask questions . |
| 16 | I mean they were pretty shambly when I got to them and I made a supreme effort to get everything going the way I wanted it to go . |
| 17 | She 's right nice , just qualified now to college , from Taunton you know , Daphne says steering the conversation in the way she wanted it to go . |
| 18 | Then , just when Rachel was feeling she wanted it to go on forever , this exciting masquerade between the two of them where it seemed as if the rest of the world did n't exist , she found herself beside Danny who began stuttering and waving his arms , obviously trying to tell her something . |
| 19 | I wanted it to go . |
| 20 | You wanted it to go out in the summer |