Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] going to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 So , she 's not one to play on it for not going to school though , so
2 ‘ 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 ’ .
3 And they would be a coward for not going to war .
4 Most men and women would be better off for not going to prison at all .
5 Have you his excuse for not going to Arsenal cos he ca n't handle the tubes .
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 I did n't used to like going to college once a week .
10 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 .
11 He would use her as his excuse for never going to America to work — a prospect which always frightened him . ’
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 .
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