Example sentences of "[prep] going [adv] [prep] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The car transporter ended up blocking the A40 northbound after going out of control on a sliproad . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ What 's the good of going on about contraception when you ca n't even get your own head together . ’ |
| 10 | I talk to a lot of people about ‘ the train option ’ , i.e. the option of going somewhere by train rather than car . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ’ Growing up is not just the pain of going away to school ; it is also the acceptance of the values of the adult world . |
| 14 | He 's scared stiff of going away to school and all this ‘ Irish ’ nonsense is just an excuse to get out of it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Women Returners ' Network is a group of working mothers who got together to help women with the challenges of going back to work . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | So if within six months of going back to work , they 're off again . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | ‘ Mummy , I 'm thinking of going back to college . ’ |
| 25 | Nor was there any hope of going back into football — unless the authorities could be persuaded to lift their ban on him . |
| 26 | That and I appreciate one or two might want to go and work on other divisions but I if generally they were kept on the division that they are now then it could be a very gradual process of going back into uniform . |
| 27 | But both the period of the ancien regime and the period of change in East Germany have revealed another German characteristic — that of going along with authority . |
| 28 | One quick way of going out of business is to be unable to meet a substantial claim because it is not covered by insurance . |
| 29 | The attack left them with a fear of going out at night . |
| 30 | He dreamed of going out in glory , winning the best-platoon prize — a dream that appeared to be shattered when he saw Ken and his barrack mates arrive . |