Example sentences of "was going to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I thought he was going to Alexandria . ’ |
| 2 | He was going to Brazil and agreed to help me , but he wanted nothing for his help . |
| 3 | I was going to Morvyl . |
| 4 | I was going to Lowestoft for two days but my clothing could last me weeks . |
| 5 | Entering the competition was entirely Barbara 's idea and when the phone call came through to say they 'd won , Betty was quite shocked to discover that she , too , was going to London to have a makeover — but she soon came round to the idea ! |
| 6 | ‘ I wonder if it was going to London , ’ said Bobbie . |
| 7 | Sir Charles was going to London on the next day , and Barrymore , his butler , was packing his suitcases . |
| 8 | I learned that he was going to London early on the following day , so I asked him to meet me before he went . |
| 9 | ‘ The paper said Richard Arnold was going to Florida for the launch of the communications satellite . |
| 10 | A friend , Dick Wixsom , had heard about 1051 , which was now advertised in Trade-A-Plane and he asked his son , Kevin , who was going to Florida on his spring holiday , to find the aircraft and to photograph what he saw . |
| 11 | Well , not to so long , er , I was going to Hampshire 's to get bread , and as I was going in , and this fellow was coming out , he hands with me . |
| 12 | I had to keep more or less the leverage more or less the same because you could n't differ them and er I er had that job to er do for and er it was the H M S Gothic and they was going to South Africa and er when er they was on , in the middle of South Africa on the coast one of the royalty died . |
| 13 | It all began with the totally illogical decision to go to Cloggy when one of the only two cars in the party was going to Gogarth and the other to The Pass . |
| 14 | She accepted the cigarette as she accepted most offerings , and still elated at the sound of her French being understood and responded to by Frenchmen , volunteered the information that she was going to Nîmes , to stay with a family . |
| 15 | Her first stop was a house in Dudley Road , New Brighton , and from there she was going to Bedford Drive , Rock Ferry , and The Wiend , Birkenhead as well as Grange Cottage , Little Storeton Lane , Birkenhead . |
| 16 | He was going to Greece with Rufus Fletcher and Rufus Fletcher 's girlfriend who was an Honourable , the daughter of some titled person . |
| 17 | She was going to Birmingham to stay with her sister who had just had a baby girl . |
| 18 | Well , she was going to Birmingham and then she was going to in a careers office . |
| 19 | ‘ I happened to mention that a mutual friend was going to Bibury with his girl for the weekend . |
| 20 | Dee-Dee drifted in and out , offering coffee and company , and Tremayne put his head in to say he was going to Oxford to see his tailor , and to ask if I wanted an opportunity to shop . |
| 21 | In the face of his father 's protestations he had decided that the conventional path for the scholarship winner — law or medicine — was not for him ; he was going to Oxford to do History . |
| 22 | He was going to California to start a new life , and did n't want to see any of his old friends or lovers any more . |
| 23 | He was going to Sbaa on an old black bicycle , the sort English policemen used to ride . |
| 24 | Suddenly , on 8th January , he telephoned me to say that he was going to Sandringham to tender his resignation to the Queen . |
| 25 | As she could not stop , he had arisen , telling her that she might cry herself sick , but that he was going to Mrs Inigo , a woman who was n't quite such a cold poultice . |
| 26 | Because it was an insurance job and it was going to Scotland and they are all thick up there — too much haggis , you see . |
| 27 | It was vaulted and filthy , black with the grime of decades , and its sooty defaced posters spoke to her of the petty romances of others , of Ramsgate and Margate , and she was going to Paris , albeit in a school raincoat , and with a beret on her head . |
| 28 | She had been to London once before only , and now she was going to Paris . |
| 29 | Mr Major was going to Camp David last night to urge President Bush to use a softly softly approach to the crisis . |
| 30 | Mr Major was going to Camp David last night to urge President Bush to use a softly softly approach to the crisis . |