Example sentences of "going away to [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 . |