Example sentences of "was going [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah he 's always putting When I was going over to Royals . |
| 2 | ‘ He said he was going over to O'Neill 's for an hour . ’ |
| 3 | Mrs Bradshaw did n't want a drink because she was going over to Mrs Warburton 's flat to play bridge . |
| 4 | She did not go on to express the next thought in her mind : thank goodness Annabel was going away to school , and very soon the association would be closed , for its continuance would create an impossible situation . |
| 5 | they , they all sitting on , a few of us sitting on the seat , the girl that was all shaky she was going for an interview at a Birmingham University another lady was going on to Northfield |
| 6 | ‘ I know , I used to think he skived off and all the time he was going on to Conway House to work . |
| 7 | Going to grandma 's , but mum was going up to B and Q. |
| 8 | In fact I 'd told a couple of the group — Mr and Mrs Kronquist , I think it was — that I was going up to Summertown . ’ |
| 9 | My ! that would be something to cope with , if it got round the unit that he was going up to Lemon 's place . |
| 10 | Well we said we was going up to Wisbech . |
| 11 | erm , I have n't , I was gon na go and , I tried phoning Lorne one time I was going through to Glasgow just to see if I could , can I have a , can I have a pint with him or something , erm , just to chew it over cos he suggested you know he 'd made various helpful suggestions , in the meantime I did n't manage to meet him , but in the meantime I did manage to speak to my father-in-law who has a camcorder and er he will be more than happy to erm , he 's also got editing equipment , he would be more than happy you know , to do the home made video that we 've talked about , I need to talk to him about this because the obvious place to do will be the Lyceum on one of your shows |
| 12 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 13 | Mike , an ex-philosophy student , was going off to Germany in the New Year ; Naomi from Bristol was about to embark on a Museum Studies course at university ; Liane , a weights and measures official , was one of the many volunteers who had helped at Uppark after the fire ; and Hugh , a quantity surveyor currently between jobs , set out to astound us over the next few days with his minimalist clothing ( some ancient jeans which were fashionably ripped at the crotch and a pair of lurid , exceedingly short shorts ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I was going back to Quatre Bras , sir . ’ |
| 15 | The result was that on the Saturday morning , I told my mother there was nothing for me in England and I was going back to Germany to try and get my old job back . |
| 16 | Modigliani was pleased when Zbo responded quickly to his pleas for money and told his dealer he was going back to work : ‘ I must explain — though real explanations are impossible in letters — that there has been a ‘ vacuum ’ . |
| 17 | And she said no , she could not make tomorrow , she was going back to England tomorrow , which was not true , but true enough . |
| 18 | I was quite impressed by this and since he was going back to England that evening I decided to go back as soon as I 'd seen him off . |
| 19 | And did James ask you when you was going back to school ? |
| 20 | But he thought you was going back to school did n't he ? |
| 21 | Tight-lipped , she told him that she was going back to Arden post-haste . |
| 22 | Her marriage had ended the night when she told Neil Fraser she was going back to Ireland to look for her brother . |
| 23 | There was a crudely written note attached to the child giving her name and saying that the mother was an unmarried Irish girl who had been in service and was going back to Ireland . |
| 24 | " I tell you , Menina Sara , if that ship was going back to Ireland today , I would be the first on board ! " |
| 25 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 26 | Er erm I 'm sorry it is the question now that I 'm going to come to was going back to organisation how often does the board meet ? and who does it regard as ? |
| 27 | As far as she knew , Alain was going back to Paris in the afternoon and she was going with him , whether he liked it or not ! |
| 28 | He had a large backpack with him but he was going back to La Paz : he had left another bag and more valuables there while he made his assault on Cuzco . |
| 29 | He was going back to La Jolla , the small town in California about ten miles north of San Diego on the Pacific coast . |
| 30 | On the third evening after his return from the castle , he suddenly announced that he was going back to Kinghorn . |