Example sentences of "of go to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for that business of going to the police , I am sorry I mentioned it . |
| 2 | Everyone then gets out of the habit of going to the pub and goes to the ever-increasing competition such as McDonald 's or other fast food establishments . |
| 3 | After Maggie went away Moran took up his old habit of going to the post office . |
| 4 | All visitors to Oslo should see the Viking ships at least and Arctic travellers should make a point of going to the Fram museum , which pays homage to one of the most remarkable men and expeditions in the history of polar exploration . |
| 5 | But it might just take the form of going to the bar to buy drinks for everyone . ’ |
| 6 | If you ever get the chance of going to the catacombs in Rome you will see on the walls a very popular image of the cross shaped as an anchor . |
| 7 | MRS Thatcher 's friends tell me that she has finally come around to the idea of going to the Lords after the election . |
| 8 | Sutton , who missed with another header shortly afterwards , went on to squander two more excellent opportunities which could have kept alive Norwich 's hopes of going to the final for the first time in their history . |
| 9 | ‘ Winning the ABA this year will make up for losing the chance of a lifetime of going to the Olympics , ’ said Calzaghe , 20 . |
| 10 | Attending a sky burial for a Tibetan must be the equivalent of going to the morgue for a Westerner . |
| 11 | Instead of going to the bar , he went out for a walk down the road . |
| 12 | I Pressed home the usual arguments about duty and not fighting the war for the privilege of going to the cinema . |
| 13 | They would include : opportunities for students to see or experience equipment or processes which are not on offer within the institution ; the chance for a student to sample a possible future job or career ; the opportunity to learn something ( not much ) of the lives led in employment by their neighbours , their parents or their peer-group , so that they may grow up more understanding and more tolerant ( this rather pious hope may in fact be quite unjustified , they may have confirmed or developed disdain or envy for others ) ; a good student may catch the eye of an employer looking for a later recruit ; absence may lend enchantment to the view of the college and the students may return from work-experience reassured about their choice of education ; students may be motivated to work hard at college by the prospect of either securing a job like the one they have seen or tried , or by the determination to avoid a similar fate ; all these outcomes may be little more predictable than the consequences of going to the zoo for a visit . |
| 14 | This footbridge was however at the other end of the platform , and most passengers got into the habit of going to the station exit across the tracks despite the standard railway warnings not to do so . |
| 15 | Even the compensation of going to the Saturday matinee on my own to see Buck Jones or Hoot Gibson and then again at night with Uncle Geordie and his wife to another picture house for the big film of the week — Clara Bow or Norma Talmadge or some star like that — did n't make up for the way Skipper kept eyeing me and slavering . |
| 16 | I 'll run in the Bath Half-marathon instead of going to the Vets Cross-Country Championships in Wales . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I can lend them money instead of going to the pawnshop . |
| 18 | ‘ He had fallen in love and decided that the risk of going to the Himalaya was n't justifiable . |
| 19 | GOOD for Princess Anne , waiting for her children to arrive in Barcelona instead of going to the Opening Ceremony without them . |
| 20 | The legal model has one further method by which it attempts to balance the desirability of going to the managers of the company substantial discretionary power so that they have sufficient flexibility to act effectively , whilst at the same time minimizing the danger that the existence of such discretion creates , which is that it will be used arbitrarily . |
| 21 | Anna thought the whole idea of going to the police bizarre . |
| 22 | For example , although they might see the same people every night in the pub , that was not a planned attempt to see those people but an unplanned consequence of going to the pub . |
| 23 | ‘ I was thinking of going to the kitchen anyway . |
| 24 | But equally you can create suspense out of going to the very edge . |
| 25 | He told me that one factor which had greatly influenced him was her suggestion that on election day Granada should shift Coronation Street so as not to keep in many of his supporters who would otherwise be thinking of going to the polls . |
| 26 | ‘ Your harebrained idea of going to the chap instead of me — ’ |
| 27 | If a young woman is feeling fit and healthy , it is very tempting to skip the effort of going to the clinic , having to make an appointment long in advance and then waiting in long queues but it is extremely important to have regular checkups for the sake of both your health and that of your baby . |
| 28 | Erm and so it was sort of going to the corner shop and buying what they could , er when they had the money , and sometimes they would borrow money from somebody whose benefit came on a different day . |
| 29 | The situation is rather as though instead of going to the zoo I had invited a small group of creatures to come to me . |
| 30 | He looked at me , as if I had talked of going to the North Pole . ’ |