Example sentences of "[verb] going [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Parties then with noise , just imagine going up to the door where there are fifty or sixty seething people in there .
2 When she got there she found that it was rather full , but being a regular churchgoer she did not mind going up to the front where there were plenty of empty pews .
3 It 's called going down to the pub .
4 Pop and I remember going up to the captain 's cabin after you had gone to bed and eating lovely bala chaung sandwiches .
5 I remember going down to the bridge in Walsall and a sailor climbed the old clock and tied his collar around it and a soldier got up and put his hat on and an airman got up and put his tie with a red , white and blue rosette on it , around the arms of the old clock and people were loving and kissing everywhere , and oh it was really you had to be alive to appreciate it .
6 It was my turn to go to the bank for the wages and I remember going back to the shop saying King George VI had died .
7 but he keeps going up to the gnomes and saying hello is that no he come home the other night and the , we , no the other day Sam he tipped all the bloody soil out of the earth and done something else , he said he 's a naughty boy and she 's said to Sam he wants a smacking he said I 'm not smacking him
8 He 's also begun to more fully explore the reasons he keeps going back to the mountains despite the terrible cost they have inflicted .
9 It 's a circular route all the time , it keeps going back to the town centre
10 They must have each eaten about a pound of strawberries , for they kept going back to the fruit cage for more .
11 My mind kept going back to the case that was nothing to do with me , the unsolved mystery of the man with a load of live ammunition in his pockets found dead on the Thames mud .
12 I dread going back to the States .
13 It meant going back to the village first and taking another road out .
14 I did n't bother going through to the consulting room but hastened from behind the desk and crouched on the floor , studying the dog intently .
15 A and we tended to not bother going back to the client , but giving what we thought he needed , that was the culture of the regional civil engineer ,
16 Oh well I 'll have to try , try keep going down to the courses down to Toshiba .
17 Oh yeah yeah and they they keep er actually this album the reason it 's called I keep saying album we keep going back to the days of vinyl er the reason its called By Request over the last four of five years Telstar sent out a sort of feelers on different sleeves asking people if there were any songs that they might like to hear Foster and Allen sing .
18 That was why Scano 's boy had risked going back to the base-man .
19 The delay necessitated going back to the trough for a third-round of venture capital after going through the $12m brought in by the first two rounds .
20 And so whilst we were conscious of the fact that erm management were pursuing this policy to introduce the new system , we were just as conscious that we were going to protect our members er and have prior consultation , and that 's the operative and effective word as far as shop stewards are concerned , to have prior consultation , before anybody accepted going on to the scheme .
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