Example sentences of "going [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Education Act of 1902 brought about the establishment of secondary schools with 25 per cent of places going as scholarships to children who had passed an exam at the elementary schools . |
| 2 | Yes , er , I have them for those who received that incorrect information from me , I must apologise erm young people who are going as delegates as representatives of their district must be treated as adult representatives and they have to pay full price . |
| 3 | Their contact with war was to sit in the dining room of the Hay Adams Hotel , or the Petroleum Club in Dallas , or by their own swimming pools , sipping on cocktails and going through lists of guns and launchers and grenades . |
| 4 | Perhaps this is why , in addition to officers attending meetings , Labour Councillors need to improve their self indulgence by going into Europe on junkets . |
| 5 | In going from atoms to quarks there is a change of scale by a factor of at least ten million . |
| 6 | The research process highlighted the difficulty of going from research to recommendations , and the effect of changing health advice on both health professionals providing advice and on mothers receiving it . |
| 7 | When 343 workers were sacked last February for going on strike over lay-offs and cuts in benefits ( 80% were women , some with 35 years of service ) , 270 others rushed to take their jobs . |
| 8 | ‘ Gwenellen 's on sick-leave and going to O.P.D. on days when she gets back . |
| 9 | She found no sexual pleasure in going to bed with strangers , but , in contrast with the rest of her week , she was comforted by the feeling of being thought desirable , of having someone 's arms around her , of warm cuddling beneath the quilt . |
| 10 | And the other point which lies beyond the reef of my comprehension : if you have been deserted by Daddy , then why react by going to bed with Daddy-substitutes , by donating la fleur de l'âge to a line-up of old gropers ? |
| 11 | She would go with Julius — and by the time they returned to the house she would know if they were going to part as friends or enemies . |
| 12 | But after a pause he went on to add , ‘ Except for kids , I hate going to post-mortems for kids ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 21 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Remembering always to carry her gas mask , stumbling home through the blackout with only a narrow beam of light from her torch to help her , and going to services in churches lit only by candles with a blackout curtain over the door . |
| 15 | It was lonely , and small groups of children going to school on skis waved to us as we passed . |
| 16 | Jones played on , helping back row partner Adrian Varney grab two tries , before going to hospital for x-rays on his jaw . |
| 17 | This system of payment extends to the whole education system including adult education , where numbers of books sold are reportedly very small — either because of low enrolments or because people are going to classes without books . |
| 18 | ‘ I said I was going to dinner with friends . |
| 19 | By lunchtime Perkin had driven off , going to Newbury for supplies , he 'd said . |