Example sentences of "going [prep] the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he was going for the interview for the job |
| 2 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 3 | Not that this stopped him going through the hoops for photographers when Forest got Nigel Mansell down to their ground the other week . |
| 4 | We keep it going through the summer for the hot water . ’ |
| 5 | As I approach his car , Eddie was already going through the appointments for the day , studying customer record cards on which each call is recorded . |
| 6 | Her mother and Omi and Paul were in , going through the arrangements for the party and wondering where the various guests could be put up — for free . |
| 7 | Going past the stands for the first time , the Unwins ' Upper Gumtree still showed in front but with Premiere almost alongside ; pampering was on the inside tugging his jockey 's arms out . |
| 8 | I placed my pipes and rucksack on the back seat of the jeep and informed the driver that I was going into the orchard for a last look round . |
| 9 | On going into the line for the first time , Jubert 's colonel gave the officers of his regiment instructions that must have been repeated a thousand times at Verdun : |
| 10 | Erm a new factory going into the area for example will have a choice between one of Selby 's erm ca n't think of a suitable adjective , large requirement for industrial land , or it will go into the new settlement . |
| 11 | Head : ‘ Much of what we 're discussing is going round the roundabout for the second time . |
| 12 | Or she 'd say , ‘ We 're going in the car for a little drive , will you come with us ? . ’ |
| 13 | what she crying for ? , what she going on the street for if she do n't like it ? , silly idiot |
| 14 | Thousands of schoolchildren are being given a science lesson by going to the theatre for the day . |
| 15 | Attending a sky burial for a Tibetan must be the equivalent of going to the morgue for a Westerner . |
| 16 | He was going to the cinema for the second time that week , with his beautiful lady , his Sweetheart , who looked and smelt and sometimes spoke like the real-life star of a Hollywood movie . |
| 17 | The embarrassment made me postpone going to the clinics for weeks — until the last possible moment , in fact : the day before I was due to board the train that bore me off to this hotel room in Manchester . |
| 18 | At least when the financial stress is alleviated , they can get on then with going to the treatment for leukaemia or a blood disorder , whether it 's chemotherapy , radiotherapy whatever . |
| 19 | Since before the war animals have been going to the surgery for treatment . |
| 20 | I m going to the country for a while , to merry Mytchett Place . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Luckily , as most of us have neither the money nor the time to undertake major remodelling , it is quite possible to make significant changes without going to the bank for a loan or calling in a builder . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm going to the club for a drink ; care to join me ? ’ he asked casually . |
| 24 | ‘ Have you found the number ? ’ he bawled to the child in the middle of a difficult run , thinking at the same time that the business of Henry 's going to the analyst for him was actually doing the opposite of freeing his friend . |
| 25 | Marie could look after the baby and I could help out by going to the shops for fags and milk and stuff like that . |
| 26 | His other neighbour 's child-bride kissed her boy hero each morning , in her floating web dressing gown , as if he were going to the Falklands for three months . |
| 27 | Oh you was going to the fridge for that was you ? |
| 28 | Never had anything been so well trumpeted to me ; surely there had been an element of hyperbole from so many colleagues and friends who had been going to the jamboree for years ? |
| 29 | They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit . |
| 30 | Autumn launch : BMW is breaking with tradition by going outside the factory for a 650 Rotax engine with chain-drive instead of shaft for its new trail bike . |