Example sentences of "going [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lawson began his speech by going right to the heart of the political problem — last week 's 1-point hike in interest rates . |
| 2 | With your looks and your talent , what 's to stop you going right to the top ? ’ |
| 3 | Time was getting short ; she must talk to Dana , and this time she was going right to the top . |
| 4 | Here 's what Gray said in September 1985 , a month before he was sacked : ‘ There are lads in the team who are going right to the top . |
| 5 | Do you have them going right to the edge ? |
| 6 | I left the hotel , feeling rather like the Lady of Shalott , breaking the spell , leaving her room , her castle , going only to the river 's edge , there to drown herself , and made my way to the Navimore School for Girls . |
| 7 | When Ash Wednesday arrived , however , she found herself going alone to the service . |
| 8 | More and more you seem to me to be going together to the village . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ One of our sons was with us for eight months before going away to the other end of the earth — I could n't even phone him . |
| 10 | He said he was going upriver to the warehouses . ’ |
| 11 | Instead of going directly to the academy 's institutes , much of it is now awarded to projects by committees representing science and industry . |
| 12 | The national press and media were travelling on the plane with Mrs Thatcher , but the local photographers and journalists were going directly to the airport ahead of time . |
| 13 | A third branch of the communications flowing out of EUCOM goes over landlines to the European headquarters of the US Air Force at Ramstein , Germany , from here the messages split up , going directly to the control centres in the convoys and to main operating bases such as Greenham Common . |
| 14 | Grand Met was going directly to the new format , but analysts were still working on the old style p&l accounts . |
| 15 | They went through to the main City Transfer barrier , ignoring the long queue of passengers formed up at the gates , going directly to the duty officer , a short , broad-shouldered man with neat black hair . |
| 16 | They could only leave the zone if they were going directly to the slaughter house . |
| 17 | They could only leave the zone if they were going directly to the slaughter house . |
| 18 | I find them more human and more poignant , you know ; going more to the core of how things , how feelings are . |
| 19 | Tony Heginbottom incorporated the tradition , however , when he revived Spaw Sunday by going early to the well and surrounding it with boughs of may and holly and bunches of wild flowers . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes of course , ’ said Taliesin , his eyes going also to the motionless figure , because it was certainly unthinkable that they should leave Fergus like this , in the middle of a dark old mansion at the heart of an ancient forest . |
| 21 | ‘ OK , I 'm going straight to the police . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm going straight to the police station . ’ |
| 23 | But in fact none of that is happening : they 're going straight to the latest technology , and as a result are able to roll things out very quickly . ’ |
| 24 | So I said , ‘ Well , if that 's the case , I 'm going straight to the President/Prime Minister/ Foreign Secretary/First Lord , etc. , to say So-and-So wo n't do what I ask , so I 'm not prepared to carry on and here 's my resignation . ' ’ |
| 25 | Calming myself I took it page by page , instead of going straight to the Rrap as I usually do . |
| 26 | Accordingly , if Mr. Lassman is correct , that kind of activity of going straight to the in-house computer and extracting confidential information from it could be committed with impunity so far as the three offences in this Act are concerned . |
| 27 | Instead of going straight to the front desk as usual , Charlie guided her towards the restaurant . |
| 28 | He stayed for lunch , and then at about two o'clock Bill and Faye arrived , the latter walking from the car to the house but going straight to the bedroom to lie down . |
| 29 | But you had a way of going straight to the two ninety in one go , do you remember what that was ? you 'd worked on it yourself , you you were doing just nicely . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't worry , I 'm going straight to the chemist now to buy some sun-screen lotion . ’ |