Example sentences of "to go [prep] university " in BNC.

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1 I was sat there , and they went who 's planning to go onto University or education after eighteen ?
2 He wants to go to university , turns up to listen to Einstein , studies hard ; but his father wo n't have it , and at the age of 14 he becomes a soap boy in a barber 's and then a presser in a garment shop .
3 My inclination to reject law as a possible course was incomprehensible to many , and while I was waiting to go to university I was constantly challenged about this .
4 I never wanted to go to university although I do know , however , that my mum and dad always had it in the back of their minds that I would go .
5 She wants me to forget about the civil service and to go to university , ’ she said as soon as she got home .
6 Once Sheila was securely set towards the civil service as well , as if out of weakness or guilt Moran began courting her with vague , tentative offers ; if she were desperate to go to university they could still look into ways of how it could be managed and they would try to manage it somehow no matter how hard it was .
7 I want to go to university and this will help me achieve that goal . ’
8 ‘ I was at Queen Eleanor 's and they urged me to go to university , but I wanted to be independent , so I came into the Met . ’
9 Last , I had to help the peasant and working-class boys who had been forced to go to university with no background education whatsoever .
10 But if she does n't want to go to university … ’
11 But in many cases boys and girls leave home at around eighteen to get work , for further training , or to go to university .
12 She has an 18-year-old son , who plans to go to university in a few months ' time and the thought of life on her own fills her with anxiety .
13 Among the young couples moving into the area were those who had dropped out of church life when they had left home to go to university , or when they got married .
14 Benny was going to be able to go to University College , Dublin , to study for a BA degree because her parents had saved to pay for her .
15 Annabel could hardly believe that she had a daughter about to go to university .
16 If that 's what they want for me , Benny asked herself , why on God 's earth are they allowing me to go to university ?
17 You have to go to university . ’
18 To go to university ?
19 ‘ I never dared to dream I 'd have the chance to go to university , said one teacher in his early thirties , remembering his youth in the countryside .
20 ‘ Who wants to go to university for heaven 's sake !
21 For a time he believed he had a vocation to be a priest himself but he reverted to a previous plan to save sufficient money to go to university .
22 I said , ‘ I want to go to university , ’ although , in truth , up until that moment the desire had been incubating , only half-formed in my mind .
23 The time came for me to go to university .
24 It was a pleasant place , Blackheath , a shade too respectable for someone into the tablets of the time , and full of kids — unlike Small — waiting to go to university .
25 Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university .
26 We will ensure that a number of carefully selected children from poor homes , including perhaps even some children or grandchildren of immigrants , are allowed to succeed at school , and to go to university .
27 But what about further education if they show an aptitude to go to university or college ?
28 Oh most definitely yes I , I 'd like them er i if they 're bright enough to go then er be very happy for them to , to go to university .
29 He had chosen to go to University in Dundee so he could be near them .
30 He needed to go to university because he wanted to strudy engineering .
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