Example sentences of "[prep] go [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every year on the Wednesday evening , after going up to bed , I used to stand at my window and gaze towards the fair some five hundred yards away , watching the flickering lights and hearing the screams and music , feeling quite sad that the show was over for another year . |
| 2 | A British youngster from a poor background who gained higher school certificate had at least a chance of going on to university or technical college , with fees and maintenance paid . |
| 3 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 4 | ’ Growing up is not just the pain of going away to school ; it is also the acceptance of the values of the adult world . |
| 5 | He 's scared stiff of going away to school and all this ‘ Irish ’ nonsense is just an excuse to get out of it . |
| 6 | One night , ten days after the funeral , as Louise was thinking of going up to bed , Nora began to talk about Constance and her future . |
| 7 | If you feel that you have quite enough on your plate with a small child , then the idea of going back to education may not appeal , and many mothers I talked to said they had no such plans at present . |
| 8 | At first the thought of going back to work made me shudder because I could n't stand the thought of leaving Danielle for an hour let alone a whole day , but once my husband Dave and I had left Danielle with a babysitter a couple of times , I realised that she would still be there when I came back and that she would be fine . |
| 9 | The Women Returners ' Network is a group of working mothers who got together to help women with the challenges of going back to work . |
| 10 | Okay , go back to work , fully recovered , okay , if within six months of going back to work , they 're off again , due to the same or related condition as the last claim , then we wo n't install , or employ the deferred period , we 'll treat is as a continuation of the previous claim . |
| 11 | So if within six months of going back to work , they 're off again . |
| 12 | When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie . |
| 13 | Yes , yes When I have , have been entertaining Shirley and Terry , doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday , sometimes both to help Shirley when she 's getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts is lemon meringue pie |
| 14 | ‘ Mummy , I 'm thinking of going back to college . ’ |
| 15 | And you get the feeling that they 'll sort of go back to school and college or wherever |
| 16 | Cos she had n't washed her feet for going back to bed . |
| 17 | I have thought about going up to Clove Lodge in the dark to say hello to Rosa , when I would n't be able to see my old place . |
| 18 | As more people find themselves in the same position , men stop mocking each other for doing housework and mothers-in-law cease criticising their sons ' wives about going out to work . |
| 19 | They publish useful leaflets and information , and will be happy to talk to you about going back to work . |
| 20 | Now she plans a celebration with her husband and two sons before thinking about going back to work . |
| 21 | Mrs Roberts was not home , and Jessica thought about going back to bed for an hour or two . |
| 22 | They can help you with your training needs your child care and your travel and they can also provide the support you need if you 're not confident about going back to learning . |
| 23 | Nothing more exciting than that appeared on the horizon in his first six months in California , and he was already talking to June about going back to Mud and Neptune . |
| 24 | ‘ Talk about going back to playgroup , ’ snarled Perdita . |
| 25 | So perhaps Lollo and I wo n't make so much fuss about going back to Earth . |
| 26 | Because of this I decided it was n't worth going back to school so I just went in to tell everyone and collect some books . |
| 27 | Women also appear as ‘ invisible deviants ’ supposedly ‘ causing ’ delinquency through going out to work . |
| 28 | A holiday-maker had once described the ascent to him as ‘ like going up to Heaven ’ . |
| 29 | I suppose it was almost like going back to childhood again . |
| 30 | ‘ In a way it 's like going back to square one , and starting from scratch again , but it 's what we have to do . ’ |