Example sentences of "[was/were] going [adv prt] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were going up to the test match at the Oval , Clive likes that . |
| 2 | Neighbours said they were going back to the country . |
| 3 | ‘ We were going back to the hotel when it happened . |
| 4 | He had never forgotten the day in the bide shed when Nutty had told him the horses were going back to the knacker 's , and the fearful panic that had exploded inside him , worse than any brushes with the police or his father , worse than anything he could ever remember . |
| 5 | It did not matter that they were going back to the house of the Scarabae . |
| 6 | There they were going down to the car . |
| 7 | Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 . |
| 8 | Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever . |
| 9 | Now he 'd told me he was going up to the Cathedral . |
| 10 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 11 | By not eating I was going back to the security of needing my family , not being relied upon but having someone to rely on instead . |
| 12 | Emily left me , mouthing as she went out of the door that she was going back to the office . |
| 13 | She was going back to the knacker 's . |
| 14 | She never fussed when he said that he was going down to the country and did n't know when he 'd be back . |
| 15 | And it was Alice , right , and as I was going out to the door , she said to Alice , Alice must have said to her , are we going tonight ? |