Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] go to the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Does my hon. Friend agree that we should also pay tribute to Friends of the Earth which , when I was a Minister at the Department of Transport , suggested that it would be sensible for the Minister with responsibility for roads to go to the Netherlands with some civil servants to see how traffic calming works there . |
2 | A Ask your teacher for permission to go to the Matron 's Room . |
3 | Frowning , she added , ‘ What did Dad mean about David going to the house last night ? ’ |
4 | After much ‘ mickey-taking ’ , I informed every lady that I only bought one in order to get some change for Sue to go to the toilet ( 25p a time — whatever happened to the expression ‘ spending a penny ’ ) . |
5 | But millions of battered Britons still face the grim prospect of dearer home loans , more house repossessions , longer dole queues and firm after firm going to the wall . |
6 | It is ridiculous that two-thirds of the cost of a bottle of whisky goes to the Treasury and the taxation rate is double that of imported wines . ’ |
7 | Many of the trade union leaders wanted of course to go to the front , but the whole process of organising our production … forbade their release . |
8 | A lot of them of course went to the quarries , but then they had a little steamer called the Florence Cook and she plied wherever she went and you probably know where she went . |
9 | And the other thing to say to from me is yes , we would love a multiplicity of views to go to the District Health Authority , I and my predecessor Betty Stanford , who were District Council Members on that health authority , we were there and able to listen to and able to contribute to the debate , the Government White Paper has taken us off , so that is not a good start in terms of how you involve the city and the district with the policy decisions of the health authority . |
10 | In addition , there were some significant increases in the proportion of income going to the salary earners , suggesting the growth of the service and professional section of society , and a general worsening of the position of those who relied upon profits in the 1920s and early 1930s . |
11 | A special vote of thanks went to the organiser , Graham Davies . |
12 | However , the numbers were small and examination of the data showed that several of the Blacks were arrested on one day ( during riots ) and at least one was charged with robbery , probably with adults ; this one incident could have accounted for the larger percentage of Blacks going to the Crown Court . |
13 | Thousands of companies went to the wall . |
14 | There will be a number of wires going to the motherboard including the main power connector . |
15 | And of course there was a thing we w a lot of the work in the mills was in or Selkirk and of course you went to the early train in the morning , there was a train from Galashiels to and it was full of workers going to the mills in and of course if you going er to work in a mill there , your , your foreman would come , you would draw the tools , at the , the night before you went to the job , you would take them there to the train in the morning , and meet the foreman and you would go to do the job and the same to Selkirk . |
16 | League dynamo Robert Irwin masterminded the thriving Greystone table tennis league and ensured that all the players had a feast of competition throughout the season , and pride of place went to the Cookstown team which included a unique father and daughter combination in Joe and Joanne Hutton , as well as the Scott brothers Alistair and Nigel . |
17 | It is not surprising then , to discover that the National War Museum is largely devoted to World War Two and price of place goes to the Island 's GC . |
18 | You see if that 's how we 're to judge blessing then what are we to say to people , to men like C T Stard who sacrificed an inheritance that in today 's value , just in the early part of this century , but in today 's value be worth millions of pounds to go to the Congo , and to China , and to India ? |
19 | The number of businesses going to the wall was 21pc higher than the previous quarter and 20pc up on the same period a year ago , underlining the renewed strength of recession since the spring . |
20 | The number of businesses going to the wall was 21% higher than the previous quarter and 20% up on the same period a year ago , underlining the renewed strength of recession since the spring . |
21 | Mrs Beuys had invoked the German law regarding droit de suite whereby a percentage of the sum realised by the sale of a work of art goes to the artist or his heirs ( The Art Newspaper , No.12 , November 1991 ) . |
22 | And he hit a lorry full of pigs going to the abattoir at Woolwich . ’ |
23 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
24 | THERE has been a big rise in the number of people going to the Sellafield Visitors Centre . |
25 | Although I am myself very much in favour of people going to the theatre and reading books it is very useful for my research for me to play devil 's advocate on these activities and to ask ‘ Why should people go to the theatre ? ’ and ‘ Why should people read books ? ’ |
26 | And I believe that the growing trend erm of people going to the cinema , erm cinema owners reconverting cinemas they 've cut into three back into the large auditoria , erm will continue and a night out at the cinema has something to do with the the building you 're in , erm this building if refurbished would have a restaurant , would have a bar , would have a cinema club , would be a real asset to the town . |
27 | In November the Nixon-Agnew ticket swept to victory by 47 million votes to 29 million : only Massachusetts and the District of Columbia went to the Democrats . |
28 | It was after midnight before they passed a dimly discerned height called , apparently , Spittalridding Hill , where there was a monastic hospice ; and there was still a couple of miles to go to the Annan ford , they were told . |
29 | In those days it was common for industrialists to go to the United States to learn how major companies should best be run . |
30 | he says er and he 's talking about Jesus going to the inn , er sorry Mary er Joseph going to the inn and er |