Example sentences of "[prep] going [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , I was saying to Tracy , I ca n't see the point of going just to have a row , because that 's all it 'll end up , I do n't think they 'll get anywhere by having a meeting , I think they 'll just row . |
| 2 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
| 3 | Instead of going home to forget he took BR to court , having given them ample opportunity to avoid proceedings , and won . |
| 4 | our fish from Cleethorpes now and , we 're ready for going again to get some more . |
| 5 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 6 | They were followed around the house as they washed and dressed , but the social workers were stopped by Mrs H from going upstairs to get the children up . |
| 7 | ‘ We want to generate a market from practitioners who see some value in going somewhere to learn something , ’ says John Warwick . |
| 8 | Stephen said hallo to Dadda before going upstairs to start work on the three-piece suite they had brought in on Friday . |
| 9 | He waited until Meredith had turned the corner before going downstairs to put on his Sunday overcoat . |
| 10 | With a firm little nod , and still smiling , she pushed the note into her dressing-gown pocket before going downstairs to find a bucket . |
| 11 | Later I watched as the white cliffs of Dover diminished in the ship 's wake , before going downstairs to get some sleep . |
| 12 | Trent gathered it and wrapped it with ties to the boom before going forward to raise the storm jib . |
| 13 | She had planned to work for a year in England then take a post-graduate certificate in education at London University before going home to do her officer training in Australia . |
| 14 | He had been based in England up to the age of twenty-two before going abroad to earn his living as a surfer . |
| 15 | Illness forced his resignation , but having recovered his health , Cilby resumed work , founding missions in Birmingham , Somerset and Cornwall before going abroad to work for the deaf and dumb in South Africa and in the West Indies . |
| 16 | We might for example want to find out if it 's freezing outside without going outside to feel directly how cold it is . |
| 17 | Over the last twenty years , the Swiss have become accustomed to going abroad to buy works of art . |
| 18 | Similarly ( p 61 ) , first aiders are taught to begin the rescue of someone who has collapsed from fume and gas inhalation by going away to telephone . |
| 19 | So obviously a sensible and civilized couple begin by going together to see one lawyer , do n't they ? |