Example sentences of "[prep] going [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After going on to Nettlestead Green you cross the River Medway and River Beult to arrive in Yalding . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Green was greatly encouraged by West 's suggestion that he should become an artist himself , and soon after going back to Manchester began taking painting lessons . |
| 4 | Dawson , who had become a Roman Catholic shortly after going down from Oxford , was an influential member of the group of writers which formed around the new Catholic publishing house of Sheed & Ward from the 1930s . |
| 5 | On reaching the last train they found a colleague talking to a middle-aged man dressed in a light-coloured rain coat and flat cap who was assumed to have been overcarried on the last train after going out of service at Capland Road Station . |
| 6 | How do they fare at the hands of those who provide the services both in these later years and in the years after going out of care ? |
| 7 | John Phipps , 26 , and his 29-year-old girlfriend Joanne Johnson were in an MG Metro which hit a Toyota estate head-on after going out of control in Westcliff-on-Sea , Essex . |
| 8 | The car transporter ended up blocking the A40 northbound after going out of control on a sliproad . |
| 9 | We also have links with Lothian Region Careers Service who come to the Careers Convention and who also interview pupils who are considering going straight into employment when they leave school . |
| 10 | If it is crystal clear and I am convicted of being in my dotage or of going on at half-cock then I shall ask British Telecom to accept my apologies wince at the thought of my next bill , and keep my nose clean . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , they bloody should then , What 's the use of going on about unions and higher pay and all that — we 're still stuck with the nursery closing at half-past three . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's the good of going on about contraception when you ca n't even get your own head together . ’ |
| 14 | It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers , but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists ' houses and smashing their windows . |
| 15 | The problem of going round in circles is caused by a surplus of information and explanation , and a deficit of ideas and reactions to those ideas . |
| 16 | Idea-having is the best antidote to the common problem of going round in circles ( see Going round in circles on page 76 ) . |
| 17 | He says that he 's fed up of going round in circles — how can he make a fresh start when he ca n't get a grant for clothing , and so ca n't then tunr up for job interviews ? |
| 18 | Instead of going over to Pyke , Terry led me to a corner table among the old men who drank alone every night , and there he calmly sucked his roll-ups as we sipped our usual pint with a whisky chaser . |
| 19 | I was fed up after weeks of playing deck quoits and shuffleboard , and the Mantela appeared to be the perfect introduction to the South Seas for , instead of going straight to Sanderstown , she would call at Rarotonga , and spend a day or two there , so I would be able to fit in a visit to another island and see something of it at a leisurely pace . |
| 20 | I talk to a lot of people about ‘ the train option ’ , i.e. the option of going somewhere by train rather than car . |
| 21 | From Congleton he turned south-east for Leek instead of going westwards into Wales and on 3 December rejoined the main Jacobite army at Leek . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | I told him that when I had last seen the doctor he had said the situation here in the plain was so serious that Eric would now have to make the choice of going either to Switzerland or to the mountains . |
| 24 | The following unusual use of to provides further confirmation of this : ( 25 ) She waited , Kate Croy , for her father to come in , but he kept her unconscionably , and there were moments at which she showed herself , in the glass over the mantel , a face positively pale with the irritation that had brought her to the point of going away without sight of him . |
| 25 | ’ Growing up is not just the pain of going away to school ; it is also the acceptance of the values of the adult world . |
| 26 | He 's scared stiff of going away to school and all this ‘ Irish ’ nonsense is just an excuse to get out of it . |
| 27 | After their winning match against Crewe Alexandra , the Shots polished performance improved their league position by four places , and left them with an outside chance of going up into Division III . |
| 28 | Oh , and I 'm thinking of going up to London for the best part of next week . " |
| 29 | We have to be early tomorrow because of going up to London you see . |
| 30 | 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 . |