Example sentences of "[noun sg] going [adv prt] to [noun sg] " 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 | Just saw a little lad going off to school , carrying half hundred weight of books ! |
| 3 | Poacher-turned-gamekeeper — a headhunter going back to industry , especially via an assignment he or she is handling — is rarer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ What I told you about Saturday night going out to post letters and afterwards going for a walk — was perfectly true . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is not impossible for a No answer in the last lozenge to result in the project going back to square one . |
| 10 | Martha could not imagine her mother going out to work and felt that the experiment was likely to prove disastrous . |
| 11 | Here 's a shout going out to College , the Boys . |
| 12 | 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 . |