Example sentences of "[was/were] going [adv] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they were going somewhere to Ireland , I 'm not sure , but they had a load of of slates . |
| 2 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 3 | A Canadian Forces official said all 130 passengers and crew were going on to Chicago , and no arrests had been made . |
| 4 | Maura said you were going up to Slane to look up old friends of the family ; is that right ? ’ |
| 5 | Late afternoon yesterday , my family and I were going up to Dunkil to visit the Bible class who About a dozen deer and one or two stags high on the hill . |
| 6 | ‘ Did you lot say you were going up to Appleby ? ’ asked Bedelia . |
| 7 | Up Newtown way , they were going up to Ruth . |
| 8 | Well , we were going up to , we were going up to Bristol so we put the car phone in the took the car phone with us , right ? |
| 9 | Only when we were about to board the helicopter were we told we were going instead to Rangkul . |
| 10 | if we were going through to Glasgow describers |
| 11 | You were going down to Jean and Ronald 's ? |
| 12 | And on , on erm Thursday Thursday evening before they were going out to Mark she came home at just about half one . |
| 13 | It was a hurried occasion , as we were all going to catch a train : the same train , as it turned out , for Donald and I were going home to Oxford , and Ivy and Margaret were going with Herman Schrijver — the Dutch interior decorator who became the closest of her men friends — to spend a week at Woodstock , and walk in the park at Blenheim . |
| 14 | And , people from the town centre who were going home to Stoke had to go over the bridge . |
| 15 | Ken Pitt : ‘ It was 1968 and David and I were going across to Germany quite often to do television shows and on one occasion , the producer whose name was Gunther Schneider , asked us if David would be interested in doing a half-hour programme with him . |
| 16 | ‘ He said he was going over to O'Neill 's for an hour . ’ |
| 17 | Mrs Bradshaw did n't want a drink because she was going over to Mrs Warburton 's flat to play bridge . |
| 18 | they , they all sitting on , a few of us sitting on the seat , the girl that was all shaky she was going for an interview at a Birmingham University another lady was going on to Northfield |
| 19 | ‘ I know , I used to think he skived off and all the time he was going on to Conway House to work . |
| 20 | In fact I 'd told a couple of the group — Mr and Mrs Kronquist , I think it was — that I was going up to Summertown . ’ |
| 21 | Well we said we was going up to Wisbech . |
| 22 | erm , I have n't , I was gon na go and , I tried phoning Lorne one time I was going through to Glasgow just to see if I could , can I have a , can I have a pint with him or something , erm , just to chew it over cos he suggested you know he 'd made various helpful suggestions , in the meantime I did n't manage to meet him , but in the meantime I did manage to speak to my father-in-law who has a camcorder and er he will be more than happy to erm , he 's also got editing equipment , he would be more than happy you know , to do the home made video that we 've talked about , I need to talk to him about this because the obvious place to do will be the Lyceum on one of your shows |
| 23 | Mike , an ex-philosophy student , was going off to Germany in the New Year ; Naomi from Bristol was about to embark on a Museum Studies course at university ; Liane , a weights and measures official , was one of the many volunteers who had helped at Uppark after the fire ; and Hugh , a quantity surveyor currently between jobs , set out to astound us over the next few days with his minimalist clothing ( some ancient jeans which were fashionably ripped at the crotch and a pair of lurid , exceedingly short shorts ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I was going back to Quatre Bras , sir . ’ |
| 25 | The result was that on the Saturday morning , I told my mother there was nothing for me in England and I was going back to Germany to try and get my old job back . |
| 26 | And she said no , she could not make tomorrow , she was going back to England tomorrow , which was not true , but true enough . |
| 27 | I was quite impressed by this and since he was going back to England that evening I decided to go back as soon as I 'd seen him off . |
| 28 | Tight-lipped , she told him that she was going back to Arden post-haste . |
| 29 | Her marriage had ended the night when she told Neil Fraser she was going back to Ireland to look for her brother . |
| 30 | There was a crudely written note attached to the child giving her name and saying that the mother was an unmarried Irish girl who had been in service and was going back to Ireland . |