Example sentences of "of going [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The adrenalin of going to a Court had kept it at bay so far but now I could feel the walls closing in again . |
| 2 | David was so upset about the prospect of going to a day centre that when the ambulance arrived he had uncharacteristic temper tantrums on the doorstep . |
| 3 | He thought , briefly , of going to a night-club later , picking up a girl . |
| 4 | His teachers at his Plymouth school threw scorn on the idea of going to a redbrick university when he could have chosen Oxford , but he felt a strong pull towards oil engineering and displayed the stubborn streak that was later to characterise his industrial career . |
| 5 | I was staying in the police house — they had several police station-houses for CID men staying , instead of going to a hotel . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , actually I thought of going to a cinema . |
| 7 | Another explained that the alternative cost of going to a library is very high . |
| 8 | In in terms of going to a business yeah . |
| 9 | I can actually imagine the feeling of going to a cot and then finding no no the child was dead , that 's awful . |
| 10 | SUEDE singing star Brett Anderson is terrified of going to a rave in case he gets beaten up . |
| 11 | We pulled into Coventry police station and instead of going to a cafe , as we had hoped , we got shut in one cell and left there for about two hours with the most revolting sandwiches you 've ever seen in your life . |
| 12 | Neither of them was young , and the thought of going to a place where everything including the language was different — apart from Slovene and German they spoke only Triestino — cast a deep gloom over them ; but they had no choice . |
| 13 | Perhaps you are fine when dealing with someone on a one-to-one basis but dread the thought of going to a party . |
| 14 | This consisted of going down a river , rapids and all , in a caving system , armed with only a wetsuit and a rubber ring . |
| 15 | They thought that we meant the insults and could n't initially figure out why the injured party would fall about laughing instead of going into a sulk . |
| 16 | She struck him as perilous and avid , and he had the sensation of going into a skid . |
| 17 | My earliest memories of being abused are of going into a neighbour 's house when I was five or six and getting money for what he made me do . |
| 18 | ‘ House Of Fun ’ became the first number one hit about the problems of going into a chemist for a packet of condoms and they had plenty of other insights left in them : ‘ Blue Skinned Beast ’ , unfortunately missing from this compilation , is one of the most scathing political tunes which British pop has ever produced , the kind of thing which has completely disappeared from the contented scene of today . |
| 19 | You would n't dream of going into a restaurant and just ordering ‘ a meal please ’ . |
| 20 | Fun as it might be to imagine what a ‘ top twenty ’ list might include , there would be little real purpose in discussing the practicalities , or otherwise , of going on a cruise , owning a race horse , buying a caravan , flying Concorde or whatever , since not only — even among married couples — would there be wide variations in choice but more particularly , since normal budget wisdom does not apply , any advice would risk being grossly misleading . |
| 21 | These days the idea of going on a diet , or trying to control what I eat , or even trying to eat ‘ healthily ’ , would never occur to me . |
| 22 | A jury has decided that a man accused of going on a shooting rampage at a seaside town in which 1 person died and 17 were injured , is mentally unfit to stand trial . |
| 23 | I thought of going for a coffee , but , |
| 24 | They want to try and get her home instead of going in a school . |
| 25 | This hybrid bike from Raleigh combines popular mountain and road bike features making it perfectly suited for people who like mountain bikes but have no intention of going near a mountain . |