Example sentences of "[prep] go to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adrenalin of going to a Court had kept it at bay so far but now I could feel the walls closing in again . |
| 2 | David was so upset about the prospect of going to a day centre that when the ambulance arrived he had uncharacteristic temper tantrums on the doorstep . |
| 3 | He thought , briefly , of going to a night-club later , picking up a girl . |
| 4 | His teachers at his Plymouth school threw scorn on the idea of going to a redbrick university when he could have chosen Oxford , but he felt a strong pull towards oil engineering and displayed the stubborn streak that was later to characterise his industrial career . |
| 5 | I was staying in the police house — they had several police station-houses for CID men staying , instead of going to a hotel . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , actually I thought of going to a cinema . |
| 7 | Another explained that the alternative cost of going to a library is very high . |
| 8 | In in terms of going to a business yeah . |
| 9 | I can actually imagine the feeling of going to a cot and then finding no no the child was dead , that 's awful . |
| 10 | SUEDE singing star Brett Anderson is terrified of going to a rave in case he gets beaten up . |
| 11 | We pulled into Coventry police station and instead of going to a cafe , as we had hoped , we got shut in one cell and left there for about two hours with the most revolting sandwiches you 've ever seen in your life . |
| 12 | Neither of them was young , and the thought of going to a place where everything including the language was different — apart from Slovene and German they spoke only Triestino — cast a deep gloom over them ; but they had no choice . |
| 13 | Perhaps you are fine when dealing with someone on a one-to-one basis but dread the thought of going to a party . |
| 14 | Sometimes there is no special political reason for going to a place . |
| 15 | When they rise to an equal level , like for instance if I have a choice between going to a woman doctor and a man doctor and they 're both on the GP list , I will choose the woman , because the woman has had to fight tooth and nail , probably , and work much harder , to get at an equal level with the man , so I would suspect that I 'm getting value for and quality there by going for the woman . |
| 16 | ‘ What about going to a movie ? ’ he added , asking if she 'd seen a French film which had opened in London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 17 | Nutritional counselling aims not to prescribe yet another rigid diet but to guide the patient back to eating in a normal and relaxed way , with sufficient flexibility to adapt to various social settings such as going to a restaurant or eating with friends . |
| 18 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ said Bernard , ‘ I too feel like going to a hotel somewhere and looking out over a blue Mediterranean sea . |
| 19 | I once used Body Positive to put someone recently diagnosed in touch , and I once went to a THT Safe Sex talk out of interest , but the latter was like going to a CHE ( Campaign for Homosexual Equality ) meeting for the first time and did not tell me anything I did not already know . |
| 20 | ‘ It should feel a bit more like going to a festival , where the peripheral things are always really important . |
| 21 | Like going to a solicitor if we can afford it — or if we ca n't afford not to . |
| 22 | Going on holiday to Lloret is a bit like going to a party that has a real buzz when you arrive and just goes on getting better and better and better . |
| 23 | The implication of these observations for our discussion is that whereas with going to a movement towards the realization of the accompanying infinitive 's event is represented as being under way , with will there is no idea of a movement towards this event ( i.e. of something existing before it in time ) : the impression is merely that the potentiality for the infinitive 's event already exists , and will be actualized if certain conditions are met . |
| 24 | Are you into going to a pub tonight ? |
| 25 | Alison 's classes did n't take on the air of duty which can mar anything from going to a party to visiting relations . |
| 26 | Many of last year 's group were interested in going to a church service , so this year I have arranged to bring them to the morning service at St. Clements on Sunday , 15th July . |
| 27 | In the evening our friend has supper in the art nouveau interior of the Hotel Europe , before going to a performance at the National Theatre , built in the 1880s as a monument to the Czech national spirit , pinioned under the Austro-Hungarian Empire . |
| 28 | Her name was Bessie Braddock and she had publicly refused that year to stay in the headquarters hotel , insisting on going to a boarding house instead . |
| 29 | By changing cloths and napkins you can alter the feeling and style of the room quite spectacularly without going to a lot of expense — bright paper tableware for children 's parties , sophisticated damask or fine linen for a formal dinner party or cheerful gingham for casual or family meals . |
| 30 | John Warwick likens the centre to going to a travel agent where you get convenience and choice . |