Example sentences of "[prep] going [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | from here but turn down at West Parley , take the right hand turn instead of going on to the airport |
| 2 | Instead of going on to the pillar-box , Auntie hesitated a moment , then took shelter from the rain in the doorway of a gent 's outfitter 's , just by the bus-stop . |
| 3 | Well , it 's something er I mean obviously a lot of people like the idea of going over to the Swindon Oasis , now er we 've had at the back of our minds , if it was at all possible to er put something similar at Didcot , obviously nothing as grand as the Oasis , but something quite similar , and obviously they would come to Didcot and not bother to go over to Swindon . |
| 4 | Calming myself I took it page by page , instead of going straight to the Rrap as I usually do . |
| 5 | Instead of going closer to the nest and finding the genuinely helpless nestlings , the killer followed the apparently helpless adult bird . |
| 6 | But she made a point of going down to the jetty one day to tell him , ‘ I 'm really glad you found your boat . ’ |
| 7 | But they remained Germans , always dreaming of going back to the Fatherland one day . ’ |
| 8 | One important thing about a ‘ bottlenecked ’ life cycle is that it makes possible the equivalent of going back to the drawing board . |
| 9 | He could n't stand the idea of going back to the section-house , so he had taken a series of private lodgings . |
| 10 | Well , certainly people are satisfied with where we 've got to and want to draw a line underneath it and move on from there , and I think the prospect of going back to the constitution er issues , and they m once again being a key focus , I do n't think anyone in the Party , or outside the Party , sees the Labour Party wanting to devote itself to that at this time . |
| 11 | They were perfectly capable of going back to the perch without my help . |
| 12 | Especially if you do n't realize that till you 've got , till you 've got home and you realize you 've got to go through all the hassle of going back to the shop to complain . |
| 13 | The idea of going out to the suburb with the dog track , and confronting the confusions and embarrassments of his past life with the formidable armoury of maturity and understanding that he now possesses , appears suddenly very sweet . |
| 14 | Instead of going directly to the academy 's institutes , much of it is now awarded to projects by committees representing science and industry . |
| 15 | There 's been no shortage of excuses in the past few weeks for getting thoroughly ratted , for going down to The Lamb , finding a spot in the corner and spending the entire evening doing nothing more intellectually taxing than sinking five pints of Special . |
| 16 | Yeah but I 'm talking about going up to the gym . |
| 17 | ‘ Such as going back to the house and making love to you until you start begging for mercy . ’ |
| 18 | So the salt you can remember it through going back to the acid plus alkali reaction , it 's the same one you get there . |
| 19 | It was peaceful with the plop-of the gas fire and the dark sky outside through the window , for like many old people Doris did not draw her curtains till late and Linda did not feel like going back to the bustle of tea-time , but she could n't keep them waiting for their tea . |
| 20 | But you do need to do good voice and movement workouts — it 's like going back to the keyboard for a musician . |
| 21 | Now when you went in you were carrying out a plan with you very close behind going down to the bedroom . |
| 22 | Just going , you were talking about decorations , with going back to the school , we were talking previously about school , |
| 23 | As in After Strange Gods , he is concerned in his conclusion with a return to sources , that is with going back to the savage and working forwards towards his solution to the problem– of modern industrial life ; again such a movement is presented in terms of a familiar encounter . |
| 24 | And then she could n't cope with going out to the people there . |
| 25 | ‘ There was no point in going back to the hotel . |
| 26 | Nobles attending the court were ordered to go first to the apartments of Dara Shukoh and there make their morning obeisance before going on to the Diwan-i-khas to greet Shah Jehan . |
| 27 | A land-based board mounted on a turntable device which is used to teach the basics before going on to the water . |
| 28 | Philip who lives in Darlington , and attended the town 's Longfield Comprehensive school before going on to the Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College , has already represented his country at under 15 and under 16 levels . |
| 29 | That evening the Parsons were meeting friends for an early meal before going on to the opera . |
| 30 | She was visiting her mother before going on to the hospital to feed the baby . |