Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] going [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson , of 8th Signals , Catterick Garrison , had just bought it after deliberately going in search of the drug because he wanted to try it , the court martial was told . |
| 2 | So , she 's not one to play on it for not going to school though , so |
| 3 | ‘ Thomas White , a tippler , for keeping shuffle board play ’ came before the Court during the stern days of the Commonwealth , while in 1666 were charged , ‘ John Parson , James his son , Stephen Parker and Sidney Randall for not going to church on the Lord 's day ’ . |
| 4 | And they would be a coward for not going to war . |
| 5 | Most men and women would be better off for not going to prison at all . |
| 6 | It was also the year in which I discovered both sex and death , so I must have learned something , in spite of not going to school . |
| 7 | Instead of simply going to bed , she insisted on returning , believing that it was her duty to try and fulfil her obligations . |
| 8 | Without employing his own servants as agents and deputies Sadler obviously could not have managed his group of offices ; as it was he complained of seldom going to bed before midnight and generally waking by 4. a.m . |
| 9 | The engineering factory in Hertfordshire who conned their staff into working for three weeks without pay before finally going into receivership . |
| 10 | I did n't used to like going to college once a week . |
| 11 | Last night , he must have done about three grams of the white stuff , plus cognac to stop the shakes , plus not going to bed all night , plus having to behave like a serious grown-up with his trainer and make sure his homes were going to the right races in the right countries at the right time , plus a screaming anxiety attack about his father and Butler and the mess his life was in , plus the horrific combined effects of the morning and the country air . |
| 12 | That is how Mrs Thatcher and her entourage are playing it and while many of the 57 , probably 59 , dissenters may disagree they , too , reinforced the Downing Street mood by prudently going to earth . |
| 13 | Nobody ever got rich by just going on talk shows — well , not on mine , anyway — and when you 're talking about actors who are paid millions of pounds for one film , then I suspect their accountants advise them against it . |