Example sentences of "going [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Growing up is not just the pain of going away to school ; it is also the acceptance of the values of the adult world . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I thought that by going away to school I would be leaving nothing behind . |
| 4 | He 's scared stiff of going away to school and all this ‘ Irish ’ nonsense is just an excuse to get out of it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I ’ m going downstairs to bed . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ He said he was feeling tired and was going home to bed . ’ |
| 9 | The forwards exerted pressure from time to time , with Thompson and the substitute Garcia both going close to scoring . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This was the chivalry of Abyssinia going forth to war , unchanged as yet from the armies of the past . |
| 12 | Out in in he he 's going straight to gold is he ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Will she be going straight to bed ? ’ |
| 15 | You 're going straight to bed . |
| 16 | ( People going there to post Christmas cards had been advised to take sleeping-bags . ) |
| 17 | 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 |