Example sentences of "[prep] going [adv] to [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did think of going down to Syon House but remembered Benjamin 's instructions never to approach Johanna without him being present for she dwelt in a twilight world where every man , except Benjamin , was her seducer . |
| 2 | I have thought about going up to Clove Lodge in the dark to say hello to Rosa , when I would n't be able to see my old place . |
| 3 | For Rob it was like going back to Piccadilly Circus after five years and finding all the buildings have been moved . |
| 4 | His new show is at Plymouth , where he studied as a schoolboy before going on to Somerset College of Art . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " I believe in the instinctive wisdom of our well-tried democracy , " declared Churchill in 1945 — shortly before going down to election defeat . |
| 7 | His season was cut to just four races , the first three of which he won impressively before going down to Forest Sun in the Rendlesham Hurdle at Kempton already suffering from a bug . |
| 8 | By going down to sea level , you can walk out on to the Rocker de la Vierge , reached by a short gangway , which has a statue of the Virgin on top and the beginnings of a jetty planned by the Emperor Napoleon III but never finished because the sea kept demolishing it . |