Example sentences of "[noun sg] going [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Vansittart , a former Foreign Office official , had written a pamphlet entitled Black Record blaming the Germans for a record of barbarism going back to the era of the Roman Empire . |
| 2 | Or what we could do , well , what I mean is , maybe would n't do any harm going down to the pub tonight to see if the others are there , only a quick drink mind , we ca n't be sure what they 're like yet — ’ |
| 3 | There are , of course , several American dreams : one is the John Wayne tradition of the cowboy going out to the west and the whole notion of pioneering individualism ; another is the immigrant American dream , this being the land of opportunity where the streets are made of gold . |
| 4 | If she had thought of it , she would have looked before : she had registered the reporter and photographer going up to the flat above , and had said to herself that they did n't , very obviously , have the class of the young men from the London Sundays . |
| 5 | The ILEA covered the area of the former LCC and thus ensured a continuity going back to the establishment of the London School Board in 1870 ( Maclure 1988 : 110 — 11 ) . |
| 6 | What with the doctor going straight out and the deceased going down to the kitchen to thank both staff for a very good meal there was n't time — even if she took it herself , which is unlikely from all I hear . ’ |
| 7 | But I have seen a coke stove , cast iron coke stove on a chimney going up to the ceiling in the dark absolutely glowing bright , bright , red . |
| 8 | IT was common knowledge the come the new law changes they would almost certainly include the experimental decision to award the put-in following a maul going nowhere to the defending side , so why are we getting so many whingers making their thoughts known whenever they can get their name in print . |
| 9 | It 's in reasonable repair up to that point , but then it forks , one fork joining the Taverna road again , a short stretch that 's in good shape , and the other going down to the city . |
| 10 | A series of synthetic compounds , with a long pedigree going back to the work of Crum Brown and Fraser in the 1860s ( see chapter 2 ) , were produced simultaneously by R. B. Barlow and H. R. Ing in the Pharmacology Laboratory at Oxford and by W. D. M. ( later Sir William ) Paton and Eleanor Zaimis at the National Institute for Medical Research . |
| 11 | Yeah , I saw , I passed him this morning going down to the garage with some wood |
| 12 | It was n't any use going back to the shop now ; she would phone Myra , then she would get down to designing the bridesmaids ' dresses that would match the bride 's gown she was commissioned to make for a big wedding in the autumn . |
| 13 | In England it provided sails and cables for the fleet ; and for this reason , legislation going back to the reign of Henry VIII required that a small proportion of land be set aside for its production . |
| 14 | Well Mr er Deputy Speaker I er do n't wish to er follow the honourable member of one of my er neighbours but I actually think it 's really part of grown up politics to ensure that the political opinion of a nation is adequately represented in the forums of that nation whether it be in this place or in the European er parliament and to that extent I make no bones about it that erm I wish that we were debating a different electoral system and Mr Deputy Speaker going back to the minister 's introduction erm it is a fact , I did n't wish to intervene because I did n't , it 's a short debate and I did n't want to take up er extra time , but it is a fact is it not that our electoral system unique across Europe means that our deadline as opposed to what the French are going to do is different to all the other member states . |
| 15 | And I told you about the garden going down to the river , did n't I ? ’ |
| 16 | I gave one dose of Syphilinum 200 and 4 weeks later she had fear of cancer , stomach discomfort and a peculiar symptom of food going up to the back of the nose on swallowing . |
| 17 | In the AAA Championships there were very tough qualifying conditions , only the first in each heat going through to the final . |
| 18 | A long pole and it worked a lot of cog wheels and the shaft going through to the dairy to turn the churn . |
| 19 | Another mile revealed a track going up to the plateau and a sign pointing straight ahead to ‘ Hamouda ’ — a village which was not on any of the maps . |
| 20 | Not only does it not produce much wheat , as we well know , but , in fact , it is not creating as much energy output as energy input going in to the system . |