Example sentences of "of going to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GOOD for Princess Anne , waiting for her children to arrive in Barcelona instead of going to the Opening Ceremony without them . |
| 2 | But Wales manager Terry Yorath insisted : ‘ Our chances of going to the United States now are as good as they were before the game . |
| 3 | ‘ I was thinking of going to the kitchen anyway . |
| 4 | And I further think you 're working all on your ownsome on this and that 's why you 've come to good old Uncle Mo instead of going to the boys at Langley . |
| 5 | He is now talking of going to the theatre tonight with some American widow friend passing through Edinburgh , as I said I felt I should not in case I coughed . |
| 6 | I Pressed home the usual arguments about duty and not fighting the war for the privilege of going to the cinema . |
| 7 | This footbridge was however at the other end of the platform , and most passengers got into the habit of going to the station exit across the tracks despite the standard railway warnings not to do so . |
| 8 | If a young woman is feeling fit and healthy , it is very tempting to skip the effort of going to the clinic , having to make an appointment long in advance and then waiting in long queues but it is extremely important to have regular checkups for the sake of both your health and that of your baby . |
| 9 | If you ever get the chance of going to the catacombs in Rome you will see on the walls a very popular image of the cross shaped as an anchor . |
| 10 | I 'll run in the Bath Half-marathon instead of going to the Vets Cross-Country Championships in Wales . ’ |
| 11 | All visitors to Oslo should see the Viking ships at least and Arctic travellers should make a point of going to the Fram museum , which pays homage to one of the most remarkable men and expeditions in the history of polar exploration . |
| 12 | Attending a sky burial for a Tibetan must be the equivalent of going to the morgue for a Westerner . |
| 13 | The legal model has one further method by which it attempts to balance the desirability of going to the managers of the company substantial discretionary power so that they have sufficient flexibility to act effectively , whilst at the same time minimizing the danger that the existence of such discretion creates , which is that it will be used arbitrarily . |
| 14 | A few of these mobilised larvae , instead of going to the uterus , complete the normal migration in the bitch , and the resulting adult worms produce a transient but marked increase in faecal Toxocara egg output in the weeks following parturition . |
| 15 | He looked at me , as if I had talked of going to the North Pole . ’ |
| 16 | May I help you by suggesting that if you could persuade the Prime Minister to fix the election date now there would be no need for this pre-election period — if the Prime Minister would stop shilly-shallying because he is afraid of going to the country . |
| 17 | ‘ He had fallen in love and decided that the risk of going to the Himalaya was n't justifiable . |
| 18 | MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election . |
| 19 | But it might just take the form of going to the bar to buy drinks for everyone . ’ |
| 20 | Instead of going to the bar , he went out for a walk down the road . |
| 21 | The Mayor , Coun Trevor Lloyd , yesterday handed over a £400 cheque towards the cost of going to the event in Winchester in June . |
| 22 | Everyone then gets out of the habit of going to the pub and goes to the ever-increasing competition such as McDonald 's or other fast food establishments . |
| 23 | For example , although they might see the same people every night in the pub , that was not a planned attempt to see those people but an unplanned consequence of going to the pub . |
| 24 | Even the compensation of going to the Saturday matinee on my own to see Buck Jones or Hoot Gibson and then again at night with Uncle Geordie and his wife to another picture house for the big film of the week — Clara Bow or Norma Talmadge or some star like that — did n't make up for the way Skipper kept eyeing me and slavering . |
| 25 | I can honestly say that the most painful bit of going to the blood donors is the next day when you come to rip the sticky plaster off your arm ( even more so if you 've got as much hair as Arthur Upton ! ) so , if you 've never been — give it a go . |
| 26 | ‘ A draw would keep us in with an outside chance of going to the States . |
| 27 | ‘ I can lend them money instead of going to the pawnshop . |
| 28 | ‘ Winning the ABA this year will make up for losing the chance of a lifetime of going to the Olympics , ’ said Calzaghe , 20 . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ In the early days I always dreamed of going to the Olympics , doing well and then eventually turning professional . |
| 30 | Sutton , who missed with another header shortly afterwards , went on to squander two more excellent opportunities which could have kept alive Norwich 's hopes of going to the final for the first time in their history . |