Example sentences of "going [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lawson began his speech by going right to the heart of the political problem — last week 's 1-point hike in interest rates . |
| 2 | With your looks and your talent , what 's to stop you going right to the top ? ’ |
| 3 | Time was getting short ; she must talk to Dana , and this time she was going right to the top . |
| 4 | Here 's what Gray said in September 1985 , a month before he was sacked : ‘ There are lads in the team who are going right to the top . |
| 5 | Do you have them going right to the edge ? |
| 6 | Harold Pinter occupies a unique place in contemporary theatre as a distinctive stylist , and I suggest you read some of his early short plays like The Room and The Dumb Waiter before going on to his major plays like The Birthday Party and The Caretaker . |
| 7 | Make it a rule always to check with the scorekeeper before going on to the area . |
| 8 | You could n't go further than the eighth class without going on to be a priest . ’ |
| 9 | As soon as you have had enough you wait until the plane arrives , going on to newer ground or back for a return flight to the bright lights of Reykjavik . |
| 10 | Going on to the inter-war years the authors note that there was no great reduction in the number of incidents reported in the press , despite the reputation of the large crowds of those years fur generally good behaviour . |
| 11 | David Macdonald made a series of quota quickies before going on to a larger budget with the striking comedy-thriller This Man is News ( 1938 ) , and Michael Powell built a reputation as a director of energetic quota films before making his mainstream début with Edge of the World ( 1937 ) , about the depopulation of a remote island in the Shetlands . |
| 12 | His new show is at Plymouth , where he studied as a schoolboy before going on to Somerset College of Art . |
| 13 | Happy and novel and thoroughly charming , it gave several talented artists their first big chance , going on to bigger , if hardly better things . |
| 14 | Miss Huntley claimed to have spent the Saturday by herself in and around her flat , doing a bit of shopping and cleaning before meeting a few friends — only one of whom appeared to have an address — and going on to a party around ten o'clock at night . |
| 15 | He affects a certain disinterest in theory , preferring extremely precise experiments that will pick up whatever is going on to those designed with a particular new discovery in mind . |
| 16 | Richards fell on 70 but Best , on his home ground , soldiered on and was rewarded with his first Test century , going on to 164 . |
| 17 | Instead of starting with the birth of Jesus and going on to his ministry , death and resurrection , the first disciples began with the resurrection and showed how it made sense of the rest . |
| 18 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Going on to Railhead . |
| 20 | The next day the RUC tried to block a 4,000 strong Paisleyite protest march from the centre of Belfast , but the marchers broke through and rampaged through the centre of the city breaking shop windows , stoning the Catholic-owned International Hotel and going on to Sandy Row where they tried to burn down a bookie 's shop which employed Catholics . |
| 21 | Of this number 262 , almost two thirds , were educated at public schools , 215 of them subsequently going on to Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 22 | Grayson played soccer for Parklands High School before going on to Preston College where he played a little rugby in 1989 but never thought of taking up the game . |
| 23 | Scotland has its own framework for the encouragement of enterprise , investment and training ; its own education system which continues to excel , with more pupils leaving school better qualified and more going on to further and higher education ; its own health budgets which deliver high standards of care ; and its own glorious inheritance of buildings and countryside . |
| 24 | Leslie had wanted to rejoin his old regiment , presumably in the belief that they would be going on to Sicily and Italy without too much delay . |
| 25 | There must still be some people alive who recall going on to a Sunday School outing from Leicester to Foxton ; parties would travel to Market Harborough by train and either by boat or cart to Foxton . |
| 26 | I advised going on to Lachesis LM2 and after 3 weeks she had a return of flushes . |
| 27 | They fell into step , heading for the pub where they 'd arranged to meet some of the other girls prior to going on to the dance . |
| 28 | Declaring that he had actually never really trusted Wendling anyway , Mozart resolved that he would accompany Aloysia to Italy where they would both make their fortune , before going on to Paris . |
| 29 | Such a dramatic decline made possible an improvement in the opportunity index , the measure of the percentage of all eleven-year-old children going on to secondary education . |
| 30 | A grammar-school pupil going on to Manchester University through the sacrifices of an elder brother , she fought the cause of Labour through the trade-union movement and into the House of Commons . |