Example sentences of "[was/were] going [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sharpe and Harper were going back to war . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't realize you were going out to dinner . |
| 7 | Ken went to the man 's flat before they were going out to dinner . |
| 8 | My ! that would be something to cope with , if it got round the unit that he was going up to Lemon 's place . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Modigliani was pleased when Zbo responded quickly to his pleas for money and told his dealer he was going back to work : ‘ I must explain — though real explanations are impossible in letters — that there has been a ‘ vacuum ’ . |
| 11 | And did James ask you when you was going back to school ? |
| 12 | But he thought you was going back to school did n't he ? |
| 13 | Er erm I 'm sorry it is the question now that I 'm going to come to was going back to organisation how often does the board meet ? and who does it regard as ? |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know I was going out to dinner , ’ said Daisy defensively . |
| 15 | ‘ The version I heard-was that Lesley-Jane was going out to dinner with Michael Banks ‘ to go through his lines ’ . ’ |