Example sentences of "going [adv prt] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | there 's very few going in to coffee because of the cold in the |
| 32 | He continued to drink quietly for another hour before going in to dinner . |
| 33 | They were sitting in the study at home , toasting by the fire before going in to dinner . |
| 34 | ‘ I am going over to Stone later on to change our Mother 's accumulator . |
| 35 | As has been noted , it was round about now that the Encyclopaedia Britannica contract was being fulfilled , and the houses involved ( Clark 's , Morrison & Gibb and Ballantyne 's ) all had women working their Monotypes in 1909.23 Fraser , the director of Neill 's , had told the Fair Wage Committee of 1908 that he did not think his customers would like the quality of machine work , but that if he did not employ women , he would certainly install machines instead.24 In January 1909 the STJ ( the Circular had now changed its name to the Scottish Typographical Journal ) was sounding the alarm : " Our trade is going over to machinery , and the machinery is in the hands of underpaid girls . " |
| 36 | He wo n't keep have to be going off to court to find out what is the law at that moment of time . |
| 37 | You wo n't keep have to be going off to court to find out what is the law at that moment of time . |
| 38 | She thought she was rather like a mother , making sure a child had eaten before going off to school , did not scruple to say , " Are you sure you 've had enough ? |
| 39 | By the time I was ten , Granpa allowed me to lay out the morning wares on the barrow before going off to school for the day . |
| 40 | Just saw a little lad going off to school , carrying half hundred weight of books ! |
| 41 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 42 | A year later , having done a super job as Editorial Assistant before going off to university last autumn , we finally got around to organising the lesson ! |
| 43 | Naturally she had not wanted to go out with him , but both her mother and father stressed how nice it was of him to take such an interest in the fact that she was going off to university and wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat . |
| 44 | As we went away to the sounds of Mrs Otto 's profuse good-byes , I reflected on the nature of the relationship between her and Otto , almost the opposite to what one might have expected : the gallant captain going off to sea where his authority was absolute and his orders brooked no delay , and returning to a wife whom he clearly adored but where the roles were reversed . |
| 45 | She is going off to work , but in the meantime we have had to send her son home with the Head of Primary Department ( see his diary ) . |
| 46 | Well if you see him going off to golf |
| 47 | Some little groups were going off to west and east , but most hung on with a sense that the next thing now demanded to be done . |
| 48 | So it looks as if it 's going off to infinity or something , but |
| 49 | Between leaving school and going off to war with the Navy , he had worked on the Sharpness tugs for British Waterways . |
| 50 | Er but if not let's move up erm to towards er towards , and this is erm this is the erm former under-bridge at , going up to Mill . |
| 51 | ‘ We 're going up to hospitality for a while . |
| 52 | Every year on the Wednesday evening , after going up to bed , I used to stand at my window and gaze towards the fair some five hundred yards away , watching the flickering lights and hearing the screams and music , feeling quite sad that the show was over for another year . |
| 53 | ‘ Yow can turn yer tap off , I 'm going up to bed and you , Katie , better get off too , ’ he said , handing me a saucer with a stub of candle on it . |
| 54 | One night , ten days after the funeral , as Louise was thinking of going up to bed , Nora began to talk about Constance and her future . |
| 55 | I might have read , checked papers before going up to bed . |
| 56 | Somebody 's going up to bed shortly . |
| 57 | Erm , so , erm , so I 'll see you soon , and you 're going up to bed now I hear are n't you ? |
| 58 | I have thought about going up to Clove Lodge in the dark to say hello to Rosa , when I would n't be able to see my old place . |
| 59 | Well we 're going up to unit again . |
| 60 | and they do some singing and everything and also they give out the bibles to those that are going up to school |