Example sentences of "[noun sg] going [adv prt] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's your reservoir going down to town , there 's a a big drop there they 'd normally put it through the turbine and pick up some free electricity |
| 2 | You know that you 've got , the fact that you can get current statements at the press of a button from July onwards , we should be able to say that means that on the teams that have n't got ta control the work going round to quotes and back again , having it typed and back again , |
| 3 | The first edition , produced last March , contained 11 opportunities generating 15 enquiries — ‘ which may not seem a lot but in the context of the Scottish market , and the quality criteria we imposed , is impressive ’ — and with second going out to intermediaries — ‘ apart from not being allowed under the Financial Services Act to sent it out to the business community generally , we want to maintain the quality of submissions received ’ — in the last fortnight , Hally sees no reason for second thoughts . |
| 4 | ‘ She tried to spin me a yarn about her husband going back to Poland on holiday in 1950 and being killed in a car crash . |
| 5 | Just saw a little lad going off to school , carrying half hundred weight of books ! |
| 6 | Poacher-turned-gamekeeper — a headhunter going back to industry , especially via an assignment he or she is handling — is rarer . |
| 7 | The UK-flag bulk carrier Charming was hit by a missile while carrying a cargo of alumina in an Iranian-organized convoy going up to Bandar Khomeini . |
| 8 | In a piece she wrote in 1913 , Ada Nield Chew constructed an imaginary discussion between a Cockney and a Lancashire couple on women 's work and the vote , in which the London husband says : ‘ It would n't do for a man in my position to have a wife going out to work . |
| 9 | ‘ Father Abbot , it 's not worth your while going back to Iona now . |
| 10 | ‘ What I told you about Saturday night going out to post letters and afterwards going for a walk — was perfectly true . ’ |
| 11 | As we went away to the sounds of Mrs Otto 's profuse good-byes , I reflected on the nature of the relationship between her and Otto , almost the opposite to what one might have expected : the gallant captain going off to sea where his authority was absolute and his orders brooked no delay , and returning to a wife whom he clearly adored but where the roles were reversed . |
| 12 | A grammar-school pupil going on to Manchester University through the sacrifices of an elder brother , she fought the cause of Labour through the trade-union movement and into the House of Commons . |
| 13 | ‘ Except when I had lunch on the train going up to Leeds for Sissie Steinfeld 's son 's wedding … ’ |
| 14 | We were told to take food and water on a train going down to Mandalay and I remember taking the Mothers ' Union tea urn ! |
| 15 | And , of course , in the same way a student going on to university or polytechnic may immediately make use of some of the Wissenschaft , the actual knowledge , he has acquired at school . |
| 16 | Anything beyond hope is identified for its metal type and dispatched for shredding — the iron going on to steel mills , the non-ferrous metals to smelting pans , perhaps for reincarnation as a Ford gearbox or even a domestic dustbin and lid . |
| 17 | Getting near Richmond Row going up to Rose Hill Police Station , and a big feller comes to Mowat 's side appealing to him to let his mate go . |
| 18 | Peggy rather hoped that Rosalind was not all dressed up to meet a new boy-friend , but with a letter going off to Richard it looked as if she were . |
| 19 | And this is on the bus going in to Clearwater on the free trolley as they call it . |
| 20 | It is not impossible for a No answer in the last lozenge to result in the project going back to square one . |
| 21 | Most historical accounts have been influenced by a long sociological tradition going back to Frederic le Play 's L'Organisation de la famille selon le vrai modèle signalé par l'histoire de toutes les races et de tous les temps ( 1871 ) , which saw a broad change in the family from the extended form in the middle ages to nuclear form in modernity . |
| 22 | In 1871 he again talked on dust and smoke , describing a respirator he had invented using charcoal to absorb noxious fumes ; this device to assist firemen was in the Royal Institution tradition going back to Davy 's miner 's lamp . |
| 23 | These ideas have a long history going back to sources such as Aristotle , Archimedes , Galen , and Boethius . |
| 24 | By giving him a place in contemporary history going back to Tony Cragg , Anish Kapoor , Richard Deacon , the dealer enhances his credibility . |
| 25 | ‘ Transport ’ ( line 2 ) means ‘ rapturous emotion ’ ; ‘ vicissitude ’ ( line 4 ) has a long poetic history going back to Milton — it means ‘ alternation ’ , or ‘ change of circumstances ’ . |
| 26 | He was somewhat mollified to find that Armstrong was a cab and he could ride in the back and scowl at me , but he knew I thought it was a lousy idea going down to Brixton to track down Lewis Luther . |
| 27 | Martha could not imagine her mother going out to work and felt that the experiment was likely to prove disastrous . |
| 28 | Here 's a shout going out to College , the Boys . |
| 29 | Take their time going up to Scotland . |
| 30 | Annunziata agreed that Anthony was unlikely to waste time going out to dinner with the others even if he did return in time and promised to cook something quickly for him if he appeared wanting a meal . |