Example sentences of "go [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One mate had been into it for a while 'cos he used to go away to sea . |
| 2 | ‘ Pappy , I want to go away to school . |
| 3 | Then , at 18 , I left home to go away to college and I met a very experienced and fairly wild young man . |
| 4 | Otherwise if we do n't invest money and time in training , we 're forced to have to go outside to sort of buy in people , because we have n't actually invested in them . |
| 5 | But the cruellest experiences the victim 's pain however great as less than his own enhancement of power however small , so that the suffering of a victim who is being crippled for life may be deliberately empathized by the torturer , but as less than his own titillation , which he may have forgotten by the time he goes home to lunch . |
| 6 | One advantage of Chinese celebrations is that they do not linger on , as everyone knocks off and goes home to bed at about 9 p.m . |
| 7 | I decided to go home to bed . |
| 8 | He was tired and wanted to go home to bed . |
| 9 | By the time he had found the way , it was after midnight , the clock had chimed ages ago , and Shelley could do nothing but walk up the hill to go home to bed . |
| 10 | ’ Growing up is not just the pain of going away to school ; it is also the acceptance of the values of the adult world . |
| 11 | There are some boys and girls going away to school , their fathers and mothers filling up the moments of waiting with many injunctions in order to shut out their anxieties which their children must not see . |
| 12 | I thought that by going away to school I would be leaving nothing behind . |
| 13 | He 's scared stiff of going away to school and all this ‘ Irish ’ nonsense is just an excuse to get out of it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I ’ m going downstairs to bed . ’ |
| 16 | He 'd want to spend some of my hard-saved eighty-five pounds ( less rail £7.50 , £3.75 hair-cut , £5 for Scabby Woman and B 'n' B £14 — plus bits of loose change ) before going home to Mum . |
| 17 | ‘ He said he was feeling tired and was going home to bed . ’ |
| 18 | The forwards exerted pressure from time to time , with Thompson and the substitute Garcia both going close to scoring . |
| 19 | As Miss Easterbrook has pointed out , no-one could rely on his going early to bed last night and not realising until after the Lab opened this morning that his son had n't come home . |
| 20 | This was the chivalry of Abyssinia going forth to war , unchanged as yet from the armies of the past . |
| 21 | Out in in he he 's going straight to gold is he ? |
| 22 | I do have to admit , though , that when I 'm working away from home it 's not a case of going out on the town — but going straight to bed to catch up on a good night 's sleep . |
| 23 | ‘ Will she be going straight to bed ? ’ |
| 24 | You 're going straight to bed . |
| 25 | ( People going there to post Christmas cards had been advised to take sleeping-bags . ) |
| 26 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 27 | I could n't argue with her , knowing I was in the wrong , so in a thoroughly bad mood I free-wheeled down the hill to the Waafery , determined to go straight to bed and to Hell with the dance . |
| 28 | I thought I told you to go straight to bed when I sent you home last night . " |
| 29 | She had said , peremptory as always , that he was to go straight to Room III , where " the miraculous stuff " was to be found . |
| 30 | He feels tired and goes straight to bed . |