Example sentences of "of going to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you think this is bloody " — and he laughed his hacking tubercular laugh " our ancestors would n't think of going to sea in a new prahu which had n't first been rolled into the water over the living bodies of seven women in their first pregnancy ! |
| 2 | And she told me about her relations , of one young cousin in particular , who had never thrived but sat by the fire instead of going to school with the other children , not growing an inch . |
| 3 | It seems there is a waiting list for uniform grants , because so many people can not afford to buy them and will not put their children through the humiliation of going to school without the proper uniform . |
| 4 | Successive governments have refused to implement the recommendation of the Evershed Committee in 1953 that the costs of going to law over issues of general public importance should be paid out of public funds . |
| 5 | AT the time of going to Press with this edition of The Embalmer , we received the sad news of the death of Past President and Fellow Tom Horsfield on Sunday 4th October . |
| 6 | The psychophysiologist can not as yet match the experiences of going to sleep with the measures of brain function that are currently available . |
| 7 | Who was talking of going to work for a different firm then ? |
| 8 | She should have taken Clare up on her offer of going to work with her one day . |
| 9 | It is again the age of going to work by train . |
| 10 | If you went out to dinner , you did n't think of how to get out of going to bed with him , it was how to get out of the car without kissing him . ’ |
| 11 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 12 | But the idea of going to bed with a woman revolted him . |
| 13 | ‘ It almost broke me to hear you accuse me of going to bed with you to get a story . |
| 14 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |
| 15 | For a while it looked as though Germany were going to sidestep all the unpleasant consequences of going to war against its neighbours — the most predictable being the payment of reparations — by avoiding a full surrender . |