Example sentences of "[prep] go [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Who says anythin' about goin' in with Rico ? ’ |
| 2 | After going on to Nettlestead Green you cross the River Medway and River Beult to arrive in Yalding . |
| 3 | Every year on the Wednesday evening , after going up to bed , I used to stand at my window and gaze towards the fair some five hundred yards away , watching the flickering lights and hearing the screams and music , feeling quite sad that the show was over for another year . |
| 4 | Green was greatly encouraged by West 's suggestion that he should become an artist himself , and soon after going back to Manchester began taking painting lessons . |
| 5 | Dawson , who had become a Roman Catholic shortly after going down from Oxford , was an influential member of the group of writers which formed around the new Catholic publishing house of Sheed & Ward from the 1930s . |
| 6 | On reaching the last train they found a colleague talking to a middle-aged man dressed in a light-coloured rain coat and flat cap who was assumed to have been overcarried on the last train after going out of service at Capland Road Station . |
| 7 | How do they fare at the hands of those who provide the services both in these later years and in the years after going out of care ? |
| 8 | John Phipps , 26 , and his 29-year-old girlfriend Joanne Johnson were in an MG Metro which hit a Toyota estate head-on after going out of control in Westcliff-on-Sea , Essex . |
| 9 | The car transporter ended up blocking the A40 northbound after going out of control on a sliproad . |
| 10 | If it is crystal clear and I am convicted of being in my dotage or of going on at half-cock then I shall ask British Telecom to accept my apologies wince at the thought of my next bill , and keep my nose clean . |
| 11 | A British youngster from a poor background who gained higher school certificate had at least a chance of going on to university or technical college , with fees and maintenance paid . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , they bloody should then , What 's the use of going on about unions and higher pay and all that — we 're still stuck with the nursery closing at half-past three . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's the good of going on about contraception when you ca n't even get your own head together . ’ |
| 14 | It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers , but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists ' houses and smashing their windows . |
| 15 | The problem of going round in circles is caused by a surplus of information and explanation , and a deficit of ideas and reactions to those ideas . |
| 16 | Idea-having is the best antidote to the common problem of going round in circles ( see Going round in circles on page 76 ) . |
| 17 | He says that he 's fed up of going round in circles — how can he make a fresh start when he ca n't get a grant for clothing , and so ca n't then tunr up for job interviews ? |
| 18 | Instead of going over to Pyke , Terry led me to a corner table among the old men who drank alone every night , and there he calmly sucked his roll-ups as we sipped our usual pint with a whisky chaser . |
| 19 | After their winning match against Crewe Alexandra , the Shots polished performance improved their league position by four places , and left them with an outside chance of going up into Division III . |
| 20 | Oh , and I 'm thinking of going up to London for the best part of next week . " |
| 21 | We have to be early tomorrow because of going up to London you see . |
| 22 | One night , ten days after the funeral , as Louise was thinking of going up to bed , Nora began to talk about Constance and her future . |
| 23 | ‘ But what 's the point of going up to Luxor if you never get a chance to see anything ? ’ asked Nanette . |
| 24 | At the moment it was the traditional tale of going up to Jackson 's at 10 in the morning after an all-night session at Dobell 's — wine we drank in those days , Poppet , wine that was wine not this filthy MUCK — and demanding double portions of oysters all round and when it came to pay no one had a penny , so Dobell , who even then still had the charm of a boy of twenty , and a slim waist to go with it , said he would bring in one of the engravings from his collection , and Gaston , who always recognised a gentleman — not like the CLODS who run hostelries nowadays — with tears in his eyes said it was an honour , an honour to serve Mr Dobell and his friends . |
| 25 | Rachel even thought of going down to Phoebe 's bed room and using her phone to reassure the outside world , and protect themselves from its invasion . |
| 26 | I did think of going down to Syon House but remembered Benjamin 's instructions never to approach Johanna without him being present for she dwelt in a twilight world where every man , except Benjamin , was her seducer . |
| 27 | He also remembered that he 'd said he 'd ring Frances about the possibility of going down to Miles and Juliet 's on the Sunday , but decided to do that the next morning . |
| 28 | If you feel that you have quite enough on your plate with a small child , then the idea of going back to education may not appeal , and many mothers I talked to said they had no such plans at present . |
| 29 | ‘ The thought of going back to Britain is frightening really , ’ says Jim Bob . |
| 30 | At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine . |