Example sentences of "go to [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transport virtually nil for Africans , we have to spend two or three hours a day going to work and the same coming back tired , exhausted and risking their lives with . |
| 2 | 20% Conflicts over routine physical habits ( e.g. going to bed or the toilet , etc . ) |
| 3 | ‘ I was just going to bed when the police came . |
| 4 | At 9 p.m. the women sat down in the common room and said they were n't going to bed until the heating was fixed . |
| 5 | I was cold , tired and hungry , but there seemed little point in going to bed until the storm had gone through . |
| 6 | The farmers ' lack of legal action against the company was based on an uncertainty about what their legal rights were , particularly in regard to mineral rights , lack of financial resources to risk going to law and no reliable information on the worth of the minerals . |
| 7 | Millionaire financier , Sir Jack Lyons has been spared going to prison after a court heard that a jail sentence could kill him ; the judge , Mr Justice Henry said he accepted the businessman was seriously ill . |
| 8 | A friend of Ken 's had just taken his life after being given the choice of going to prison or a mental hospital . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , it 's too early to go to bed and the rooms are like ice . |
| 10 | Athelstan agreed ; the landlord of the Piebald Horse was a one-armed , reformed sea pirate who had confidentially explained to the friar how he would love to go to church but the smell of incense always made him feel ill . |
| 11 | He carried on for two days but finally , in excruciating pain , had to go to hospital when a splint was put on his damaged limb . |
| 12 | Again , there were difficulties with Equity when I was selected and the whole thing had to go to arbitration because the company stood out for the casting it wanted . |
| 13 | he said he 'll ta no , to court if it goes to court cos the insurance we 've got out . |
| 14 | to me , electric , the plus always goes to plus and the minus to minus , you ca n't mix them up . |
| 15 | But when she eventually went to bed after a leisurely supper sleep proved elusive . |
| 16 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 17 | ‘ If you had a Rip Van Winkle who went to sleep before the programme started and woke up now , he would have difficulty in recognising what had happened . ’ |
| 18 | I flung open my double-glazed windows before I went to sleep and the first call to prayer of the Muslim day was a strident awakening . |
| 19 | She would employ 250,000 men and women in over 80 British towns and cities , and drag 1 , 006 tons of chains after her into the Clyde at her launch , but she was still 534 until the day a city went to sea and the farmer 's field was flooded across from the Glasgow Road . |
| 20 | Revolutionary special effects recreate the working conditions of a deep sea voyage , above and below deck , providing an insight into the hardships experienced by the many men and boys who went to sea and the occasional heartache of those left at home . |
| 21 | Bradley who has travelled the world with his accordion sets the pace in more than 36 Irish tunes including Village Where I Went to School and The Galway Shawl . |
| 22 | Oh , on Monday Jessie went to school and the teacher saw her cat suit he shouted so loudly , she jumped , jumped , jumped , jumped up , up on top of the , do n't laugh |
| 23 | He went to hospital and the police put a cordon sanitaire across the pitch while the Chairman of the Popular Congress phoned Tripoli to find out how to conduct the proceedings when the returning officer had retired hurt . |
| 24 | Assistant Chief Constable David Mellor , aged 52 , who is shortly to take up a post as deputy chief constable of South Wales , had just gone to bed when a device planted below the window of a living room exploded at 1.20am . |
| 25 | I had gone to bed when the phone rang . |
| 26 | I had gone to bed and a storm arose . |
| 27 | Instead of having to come home from work and worry about wrapping up the Christmas presents , or writing letters to friends , or having a long conversation with someone in the family who needs a bit of support , and fitting all that in after the children have gone to bed and the supper 's been washed up and you really ought to be reading papers for tomorrow 's meeting , I know I have a chunk of time when I can get on with doing all that . |
| 28 | Back at the Blighty Bar , Japan has gone to bed and the British dance scene is the subject of discussion . |
| 29 | Syl had left and Robert gone to bed and the old school friends were talking as they must have talked in their manless dormitory : my mother careful , Lili dashing . |
| 30 | I 'd gone to ground so the culprit could not have known of my presence . |