Example sentences of "[v-ing] to go [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he 'd found out that I was applying to go to art school he opened up quite a bit and we began to talk . |
| 2 | Somehow she got herself out of the room , and up the stairs before anyone appeared to speak to her , tore off her clothes , and then hid the betraying underwear in a Gladstone bag which she later threw off Waterloo Bridge after she had left the embassy , pretending to go with Laura Parslow on her European tour , but actually having hired herself out to J. D. O'Connor , and gone to the East End . |
| 3 | Shortly after his accession , he ordered the release of Catholics who had been imprisoned for refusing to go to church or for not taking oaths , and ordered the Exchequer to repay their fines . |
| 4 | She wore her parents out by nightly refusing to go to bed until they did ; whereupon she would sleep normally . |
| 5 | So does deliberately wetting the carpet or shouting angrily at mother , or refusing to go to bed . |
| 6 | She blamed herself for trusting him to wait , for not refusing to go to Sniffy without the van keys in her possession . |
| 7 | Now , on the Sunday she died , Lady Eleanor abruptly broke with custom , refusing to go to Compline , and someone as alert as you must have seen the secret preparations she had made . ’ |
| 8 | Dressing to go to town , Nick could hear their voices through the open window and Marjorie 's occasional laughter , soft and contented as a cat 's purr . |
| 9 | Their excuse — not that lame — is that they frequently have to cater for up to 80,000 , mainly male , football fans wanting to go at half-time . |
| 10 | North , wanting to go to church , deferred it . |
| 11 | The other element of group violence is of course , if there are a group of people throwing bricks at the police , or chanting or swearing at people wanting to go to work from a picket line , the law , the criminal law is designed to prove guilt against an individual for an individual 's conduct according to the preordained laws , whether they be statute law or common law . |
| 12 | He thought , there is wanting to go to bed with someone , which is really just an erection ; and there is the kind of wanting which extends beyond the night into the day , the kind where you spend all day waiting , sometimes several days . |
| 13 | Think of feeling a sensation in one 's knee-or noticing a cup , having the usual inattentive visual experience of a room , feeling good or depressed about nothing specific , being struck by the fact of a recent death , wanting to go to bed , deciding not to , momentarily intending to watch the news on television , picturing a face , thinking a question or a sentence , writing one , having a dream . |
| 14 | Intriguingly enough , the only way I can make Selina actually want to go to bed with me is by not wanting to go to bed with her . |
| 15 | Feeling guilty again , for not liking curry and for not wanting to go to India and letting her down , I say no , I will just have a boiled egg and toast , I 'm not very hungry , that will be fine . |
| 16 | There were many reasons for wanting to go to England . |
| 17 | Well , I 'm really wanting to go to Birkdale , so I jumps on the last train out of St Andrews . |
| 18 | There is no use in telling a customer wanting to go to San Marino ( as I have been in three central London agencies ) that it does n't exist , that he really means San Remo . |
| 19 | I suppose in theory I could be lying through my teeth and have some other reason for wanting to go to Strathspeld — maybe I 'm just getting homesick for Scotland — but I 'm certain he knows that I 'm not lying and that there is a body ; I think he can see it in my eyes . |
| 20 | They had all met teachers ‘ like that ’ on teaching practice : the ones who told them they needed their heads looking at for wanting to go into teaching , who were sarcastic to the pupils and disparaging about almost everything . |
| 21 | Burmans are wanting to go into business more — a little group of Burmese businessmen have formed an industrial corporation ; young Burmans are doing well in the petrol and kerosene retail trade . |
| 22 | Most of the above rules show stress tending to go on syllables containing a long vowel or diphthong and/or ending with more than one consonant . |
| 23 | In fact , I would not be able to conduct sessions of regression therapy — whether present- or past-life — if I thought that my patient was going to go through agonies while it was going on . |
| 24 | Right , I 'm going to go through methods of how we can detect structural change by the non constant parameters . |
| 25 | He says it 'd be devastating — we built the bungalow just 6 years ago and I 've built the farm up over the years and now it 's all going to go under water . |
| 26 | going to go into service in the next century , it 's going to be around till well into the next century . |
| 27 | Right , if we erm , nip off to Tesco 's now , what 's the time , half past ten are we going to go into Tesco 's now Charlotte and have a ride in the trolley ? |
| 28 | I am going to go into town more , on my night off , and just hang around where I 'm told the prostitutes stand . |
| 29 | I 'm going to go into therapy . |
| 30 | Just because Hawks were going to go to Iran and I was wondering how many planes it was going to be this time . |