Example sentences of "[was/were] going [adv prt] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Leigh , who drew a quarter 's salary in March 1565 , was another graduate of the University of Cambridge ; good boys from the School were going on to University . |
| 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 | if we were going through to Glasgow describers |
| 10 | Sharpe and Harper were going back to war . |
| 11 | You were going down to Jean and Ronald 's ? |
| 12 | Some little groups were going off to west and east , but most hung on with a sense that the next thing now demanded to be done . |
| 13 | Soon the calls were going out to groups all over the country . |
| 14 | And then there was a study into and area of Belfast where most of the men were unemployed and it was the women who were going out to work in the factory and it was found to be the other way round , and the women spoke more of a non-standard than the men did when the men were staying at home . |
| 15 | Did he not know that 33 per cent of married women were going out to work , and that did n't mean they were competing to do Mrs Griffiths-Jones ’ dishes ? |
| 16 | And on , on erm Thursday Thursday evening before they were going out to Mark she came home at just about half one . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't realize you were going out to dinner . |
| 18 | Ken went to the man 's flat before they were going out to dinner . |
| 19 | Their parents were going out to drinks , there was no problem . |
| 20 | Yeah he 's always putting When I was going over to Royals . |
| 21 | ‘ He said he was going over to O'Neill 's for an hour . ’ |
| 22 | Mrs Bradshaw did n't want a drink because she was going over to Mrs Warburton 's flat to play bridge . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | ‘ I know , I used to think he skived off and all the time he was going on to Conway House to work . |
| 25 | Going to grandma 's , but mum was going up to B and Q. |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | My ! that would be something to cope with , if it got round the unit that he was going up to Lemon 's place . |
| 28 | Well we said we was going up to Wisbech . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |