Example sentences of "go [prep] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The sensation therefore was immense when he abandoned cricket , and a life of wealth and ease , to go as a missionary to China . |
| 2 | We considered various possibilities , but as neither of us could drive far and neither of us could face airport hassle , we decided to go for a week to Wales . |
| 3 | They are , for example , going as a group to the US next week to do just that . |
| 4 | We 're going for a walk to . |
| 5 | Cough worse ( < ) open air , going from a warm to a cold room or vice versa , twilight , lying on left side , talking , eating ; better ( > ) lying on right side . |
| 6 | For the moment we move forward believing that we are going in a direction to which we have already been prompted , and in the confidence that the holy spirit is working among us . |
| 7 | You 're going on a freebie to the Tate because you 're going to be our guide . |
| 8 | When its heroine , Dorothea , first entertains the illusion that marriage to Mr Casaubon will confer upon the everyday-the aspect of great things , she makes one exception to the frustration of her efforts as a single woman to lead a significant life in that period in England : ‘ I do n't feel sure about doing good in any way now ; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I do n't know ; — unless it were building good cottages — there can be no doubt about that . ’ |
| 9 | DID you hear the one about 16 English men , eight Scots , four Welsh and two Irishmen going on a trip to New Zealand … ? |
| 10 | When we are going on a journey to a strange country , our state of mind and the nature of our preparations are determined by what we think we shall find there and , in particular , by whether we have friends and relations living there . |
| 11 | The princess bought hers in 1988 before going on a visit to Australia . |
| 12 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 13 | Are we going to a going to John 's er , in afternoon tomorrow ? |
| 14 | Alison 's classes did n't take on the air of duty which can mar anything from going to a party to visiting relations . |
| 15 | This is my cue for showing you how to go from a list to a database and this is done using the /Data , Query , Input command . |
| 16 | A depth-first traversal goes from a node to one of the nodes directly connected to it and then immediately continues by visiting a node that is connected to the last visited node ( see Figure 12 ) . |
| 17 | He asks her to go to a doctor to be tested for syphilis . |
| 18 | Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him . |
| 19 | It is not surprising that many citizens ‘ banned and cursed her ’ , nor is it wholly surprising that there were some among them prepared to give her money to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St James of Compostella in Spain . |
| 20 | Only those who were sufficiently moved by piety or curiosity to go on a pilgrimage to the celebrated shrine of Santiago de Compostella , on roads which took them through Aquitaine , can have learned anything at all about the land which was to be the chief concern of Richard 's life . |
| 21 | The Young King had been pressing for permission to go on a pilgrimage to Compostella but Henry II , believing that this was just an excuse to get away from his watchful eye , had instead ordered him to help suppress the rebellion in Aquitaine . |
| 22 | The Mayor of Whitby , Coun Maurice Hatton , will not be taking the official chain of office when he goes on a pilgrimage to the German town of Kleve on April 30 , because of its high value . |
| 23 | Dad told them he went for a drink to the pub at Goldsithney , that he left at about nine and came straight home . ’ |
| 24 | Oh and he met this girl , they went for a weekend to Aviemore . |
| 25 | After spending two years at the South Kensington School of Art , he went for a year to the office of the architect Sir Ernest George when he was still only eighteen . |
| 26 | We went for a visit to an Arts and Crafts factory on Saturday . |
| 27 | I therefore went for a term to a crammer , secured the necessary credit and was accepted by Magdalen College . |
| 28 | It was quite different , however , when through parental death or disaster a grandchild went for a time to be brought up by grandparents . |
| 29 | He went for a time to Australia , then jumped ship in Cape Town ( which caused a scandal ) and was subsequently cared for by his uncle Willy , Theunis 's younger son . |
| 30 | While I was there , I went for a time to a sangha , a Buddhist religious community . |