Example sentences of "going [adv] to the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
2 | Hi , After lengthy negotiations in private , Gav & I are going along to the Sunderland game together on Wednesday . |
3 | You will have had a bath before going along to the morning service of Chiropody , so the problem will not arise . |
4 | Marsha I 'm going along to the chip shop and I 'm going to McDonalds and get a drink , na , I 'm gon na have to stay , how much , how much the chips ? , sixty P and how much is milk shake ? , one pound , that 's one pound sixty and then money for sweets after school |
5 | Lucien was so disturbed by the dream that the following morning he considered staying in his room and not going down to the exercise court to practice with Resenence . |
6 | ‘ Some of the other kids were going down to the Ash Grove later , ’ she complained . |
7 | This morning I put the kettle on the gas before going down to the Blair toilet at the bottom of the maize field . |
8 | Pete went over to the wagon , and as he was taking out the inventory clipboard he explained that they 'd be going down to the boat house in Diane 's pickup truck . |
9 | ‘ I 'm going down to the Customs House . ’ |
10 | Now look here , if you honestly think that I 'm going down to the police station and verifying a story like that then you can think again ! |
11 | Going down to the hospital basement and disrobing in a utility room full of bleach bottles and moulting mops was a tantalisingly prosaic prelude to my voyages into inner space . |
12 | I did n't bother going through to the consulting room but hastened from behind the desk and crouched on the floor , studying the dog intently . |
13 | Now we 're going over to the tuck shop Go on Natalie sing something . |
14 | Going over to the tuck shop because Kim wants to buy something . |
15 | ‘ I 'm just going over to the Hospitality Unit . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | They could only leave the zone if they were going directly to the slaughter house . |
18 | They could only leave the zone if they were going directly to the slaughter house . |
19 | They went through to the main City Transfer barrier , ignoring the long queue of passengers formed up at the gates , going directly to the duty officer , a short , broad-shouldered man with neat black hair . |
20 | Were going up to the test match at the Oval , Clive likes that . |
21 | And then he went on and he landed up in Seattle the time they were going up to the Klondike Gold Rush . |
22 | Sex and cigarettes were the main things , and going up to the Youth Centre to smash the legs off the table-tennis tables . |
23 | ‘ I 'm going straight to the police station . ’ |
24 | Now , could argue that Greater York could be bigger or smaller , the local government commission , erm er there report is a very interesting read , I mean a number of the options that they 've looked at would be a gra er a city of York going out to the ring road , erm that might be one option , there 's a there there idea of of Greater York , they did harden , they did see some merit in in a Greater York unitary authority based on the Greater York planning study I think , erm whether that is going to come to pass only Mr Gummer presumably er knows , so my idea of Greater York is that it 's an area which is tied socially and economically to the city , you could argue as mobility increases , as the A ni nineteen is improved up through the County that really Northallerton now is perhaps more within the sphere of influence of York than it was ten years ago , erm e it was probably to a degree influenced by York even twenty years ago , erm I do n't think er there is much to be gained by debating where Greater York ought to be , the Secretary of State previously has n't been bothered about er amending it er it seems to us to be the reasonable area , and it 's a combination of five districts , erm erm erm who who who hopefully should be working together towards sorting out the er other problems of Greater York . |
25 | Going back to the harvest time |
26 | They must have each eaten about a pound of strawberries , for they kept going back to the fruit cage for more . |
27 | Having an extra wash tray to rinse your prints before going back to the dev. time to allow for the stop , etc. would n't go amiss . |
28 | He was going back to the Cluanie Inn . |
29 | Nick Harris reporting , and of course we 'll be going back to the Manor ground shortly and catching up hopefully with Nick Harris and some of Oxford United players . |
30 | He filtered on to the dual carriageway , overtaking a haulage truck and a couple of slow-moving cars , always going back to the nearside lane . |