Example sentences of "of 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 . |