Example sentences of "going to university " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not a big deal in the scheme of things but you get an awful lot of hassle when all your mates are going to university , or start bringing home the bacon . |
| 2 | Going to university |
| 3 | Richard Baxter 's ambition of going to university was never fulfilled . |
| 4 | As a young schoolgirl I had always wanted to do something different and to work out of doors , but as I progressed along the educational road these objectives had somehow receded to be overtaken by the more accepted priorities of passing exams and going to university . |
| 5 | I love what I 'm doing for Revlon but there are two things that I do think about , one is becoming an actress and the other is going to university to study art history . |
| 6 | Patsy was as excited as any of them about Benny going to university . |
| 7 | At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes . |
| 8 | She could still see the tableau this morning : her father with tears of pride in his eyes — she knew he would go to the business and bore everyone to death with tales about how his wonderful daughter was going to university . |
| 9 | Was n't it hard enough on that poor child to know no parents , to be totally disowned by her relations up in Westlands , to be brought up an orphan in the convent in second-hand clothes , and sent to a secretarial course when she had her heart set on going to university without being mown down by a car on her first week . |
| 10 | And they stabbed at him and caused his whole body to tremble as if in shame because , in a way , he knew she was right : his inadequacy to face his future was there for even himself to see ; he had considered volunteering in order to avoid the responsibility of making the choice either of going to University to read for a degree in English Literature or of just plumping for a teacher 's training college course . |
| 11 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 12 | Peter , 19 , from Penbury , Kent , had been spending the summer in northern Kenya before going to university . |
| 13 | Young Gilbey 's passion was cars and he skipped going to university to move to the bright lights of London . |
| 14 | She 's going to university , training to be physiotherapist . |
| 15 | Neither would be going to university ; they had had enough of studying . |
| 16 | The ratio of girls to boys going to university fluctuated from 70 per cent in 1925 ; 50 per cent in 1937 ; 47 per cent in 1950 ; 50 per cent in 1960 ; 66 per cent in 1973 ; and it has remained at that level since . |
| 17 | Jacob , increasingly since he commenced going to university , might be missing for the rest of the day ; Joshua , particularly in the summer , would go out for long walks in the country , following , he said , the course of some meshuggeneh game in which young men threw an iron ball along the road and ran after it — could there be such a game ? |
| 18 | They were working-class grammar school boys and they were going to university . |
| 19 | Her mother had ideas about her going to university , but Sandy knew her limitations ; she planned on a two-year course at a catering college , and had diplomatically said nothing about it yet . |
| 20 | One feminist writer vehemently condemned the idea of ‘ young women going to university to learn how to clean ’ , while Rebecca West tersely dismissed all housework as ‘ rat poison ’ which took the ‘ intelligence of rabbits ’ to learn . |
| 21 | For the parson the whole point of going to university was to become a minister of God . |
| 22 | But even until ooh when , I , I can remember my daughter when she er was going to university . |
| 23 | " Eva is going to university if I have to go to the wash-tub to get her there , " she announced . |
| 24 | Going to university had been what they wanted for him , a visible sign of achievement , and he had obliged , not having any strong objections . |
| 25 | Children raised in a middle-class family in which the parents and grandparents were university-educated are likely to be brought up in an environment in which reading and learning are stressed and going to university is encouraged . |
| 26 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 27 | A pupil at Fernhill School , Rutherglen , she plans a sixth year with a view to going to university to study law . |
| 28 | a farmer a fa how the farmer makes his money , it 's all like people going to university and how they get grants well farmers get grants grants |
| 29 | Well is he going to university ? |
| 30 | I wonder if they , is she going to university , or hoping to ? |