Example sentences of "going [adv prt] to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people do n't care if they live or die , but a few are willing to risk imprisonment by going on to the streets to hand out clean syringes . |
| 2 | The 20 teams were put into four pools , with the top two from each going on to the quarter-finals . |
| 3 | I made a fuss about being first in the queue going down to the car-decks . |
| 4 | I thought you was going down to the garages ? |
| 5 | ‘ Going down to the Hogans again are you ? ’ she said , sounding slightly put out . |
| 6 | Going down to the valleys . |
| 7 | Oh well I 'll have to try , try keep going down to the courses down to Toshiba . |
| 8 | A world leader with the security industry is actually going down to the levels of the one man and a dog outfit . |
| 9 | Venture capitalists like to keep close tabs on their investments , going down to the offices of the fledging chief executive officers once a week , putting their feet up on the desk and playing father confessor . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm going down to the Customs House . ’ |
| 11 | Now look here , if you honestly think that I 'm going down to the police station and verifying a story like that then you can think again ! |
| 12 | Sunday morning say the start of the ladies ' competition with St Albans A and Mutineers going through to the semis to play St Albans B and Woodmill respectively , the latter two having been given byes to this stage . |
| 13 | Sponsored by Bass , the tournament attracted a good entry of 18 pairs , with the winners and runners-up of each group going through to the semi-finals . |
| 14 | Des transmits that he found me , and I say that I 'm going over to the flats to see what 's happening , but both Des and the radio warn me off . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm going up to the attics . ’ |
| 16 | but he keeps going up to the gnomes and saying hello is that no he come home the other night and the , we , no the other day Sam he tipped all the bloody soil out of the earth and done something else , he said he 's a naughty boy and she 's said to Sam he wants a smacking he said I 'm not smacking him |
| 17 | Oh cos I 'm going up to the doctors as you know . |
| 18 | Going out to the battlefields , Olid Edis wanted some mark of her identity and so got a badge ‘ NWM ’ which she put on a cap . |
| 19 | Here is a case for ‘ outreach ’ since , if the library is not shown to be hospitable and friendly by librarians going out to the children , the children are unlikely to make contact with the library in any way other than as vandals . |
| 20 | Going back to the agents up in the town , the boatmen to get information about a ship coming in they would have to go up to the town |
| 21 | Indeed , there was a sense in which he was a historian : he loved investigating source material , going back to the originals , and patiently fitting one piece of evidence into the pattern with another . |
| 22 | Earlier , he had been amazed by the amount of sludge being discharged by his pores , so before going back to the hot-rooms , he went to the wash handbasin and scrubbed his face with a will , and imagined all his blackheads disappearing down the drain along with the waste water . |
| 23 | Although they were public servants answerable to the Home Secretary , the Prison Commissioners had a separate existence going back to the reforms of the late Nineteenth Century . |
| 24 | And , going back to the shires … harnessing horse power to clear the woods . |
| 25 | Now those are arteries , that 's the pulmonary artery but it 's coming back to the heart okay , that 's the only time you 're going to find the rule reversed , arteries leave the heart , veins come back to the heart , and the only time that rule is reversed is when you 're linking the heart and the lungs through the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery , however , they are still carrying , the arteries are still carrying oxygen charged blood , yes , because it 's come fresh from the lungs so it 's still carrying nice red lovely oxygenated blood , yes , even though it 's coming back into the heart , that is because it 's come fresh from the lungs and the vein although it 's going in the opposite direction the way you normally expect it , is still carrying the old rotten , you know , used up blood , because it 's going back to the lungs to be recharged , do you understand it alright ? |
| 26 | Er about drugs and going back to the drugs , you mentioned about valium and problems |
| 27 | He 's also begun to more fully explore the reasons he keeps going back to the mountains despite the terrible cost they have inflicted . |
| 28 | Erm fift and he 's still going back to the fingers . |
| 29 | I believe that it is only by going back to the basics and debating questions such as ‘ What do you want from the audit process ? |
| 30 | Going back to the weights |