Example sentences of "go to [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the women wept unashamedly , for Tristram was not the only Polruan boy to be going to sea for the first time . |
| 2 | His frankly delighted countenance spurred her on to effort : ‘ I myself , ’ she heard herself saying , ‘ am very much looking forward to going to Japan for the first time . |
| 3 | I was n't doing anything to speed up my role as a would-be doctor , so during my last year at Oxford , where I had planned to stay for three years before going to London for the real hard medical training , I arranged ( again through Dr Allott ) to spend my final long vac helping out as a general dogsbody at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London , where there was a special unit investigating Heine-Medin 's disease , the original name for polio , and — especially in the 1930s — doing research into the spinal aspects . |
| 4 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 5 | Administration sources made it clear yesterday that Mr Clinton was ready to go to Moscow for the 3-4 April meeting , whose present venue is Vancouver . |
| 6 | We no longer wear mourning clothes for a fixed period of time , we do n't refuse to go to parties for the first six months after the death of someone close to us , we do n't take time immediately after the death for intensive grieving . |
| 7 | I have to go to Dublin for the nearest indoor courts . |
| 8 | He was not allowed to go to Brussels for the European premiere of his play The Crucible . |
| 9 | The Esso England Junior squad goes to Stockholm for the annual eight nations international contest with Lee Dalzell ( GatesheadWhickham ) , Susan Rolph , Anthony Day , Craig Eldred and Nick Sultman ( all Newcastle ) in the team . |
| 10 | KENDALL SQUARE GOES TO FRANCE FOR THE RIGHT OBJECT DATABASE FOR PARALLEL KIT |
| 11 | When Marek went to Poland for the first time , when he was eighteen , a place of pilgrimage had been his father 's grave . |
| 12 | In 1920 she went to Moscow for the second congress of the Third International . |
| 13 | That night Nathan went to India-May for the third time . |
| 14 | The inter-provincial championship went to Ulster for the sixth consecutive year , and Munster have shown good form . |
| 15 | And so I went to sea for the second time . |
| 16 | M&J Ross and Son of Romesbeoch , Shawhead , Dumfries , received a 3,400gn bid for their Zora of Romesbeoch from J&JW Ions of Thorneyburn , Hexham and RT Lawson and Son , Airlies Farm , Wigtown , went to 2,800gns for the second prizewinner Zulu , the September l991 bull brought out by Ian Henderson of Langholm . |
| 17 | It was a very hot and sunny day in 1987 when I went to Semerwater for the open air service , and Yorkshire 's largest natural lake was a hive of activity . |
| 18 | It was then that I went to school for the first time , to a Roman Catholic convent in Ealing , not because of my parents ' religious beliefs but because it was thought to be educationally superior to any of the state-run schools in the locality . |
| 19 | It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill . |
| 20 | 603 went to Philadelphia for the American Bi-Centennial celebrations in 1976 , but has since returned to San Francisco . |
| 21 | Someone who had worked closely with Ian Paisley in the 1950s claimed that he had once joked that the only way they would get anywhere would be if they went to gaol for the Protestant cause . |
| 22 | It was rather like when he had gone to Paris for the first time when he was eighteen . |
| 23 | He could not explain it , but his putting had gone to pieces for the past few months and he was missing shots which formerly he would have holed with ease . |
| 24 | They insist that this group is ‘ nominal ’ , rather like Christians who go to church for the comfortable feelings they get , but who never put their faith into practice . |
| 25 | The bowling rate for each batsman should start off at Slow for the first ‘ over ’ of six balls , then go to Medium for the next over , and Fast for the third over ; this sequence then repeating if the same batsman is still at the crease . |