Example sentences of "go to the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had noticed how the boy 's eyes kept going to the broad window behind him . |
| 2 | Two fundamental trends are at work : employee numbers are being gradually but drastically reduced — the Army alone is facing a 30 per cent by 1995 ; and all three services are coming to terms with their obligation to ‘ market test ’ support services with the result that a steady trickle of contracts has been going to the private sector since the early 80s . |
| 3 | We also tested a sample of autistic children in the chocolate-finding task and found that they were again behaving just like the three-year-olds : going to the baited box for twenty trials , despite wanting to win chocolates and occasionally trying to filch them from the experimenter 's bag . |
| 4 | This seems to be a rather narrow and limiting definition , and it could be refuted by pointing out that both subject knowledge and research methodology could equally well be tested by examination , without going to the additional effort of writing a thesis . |
| 5 | Hostilities in Europe ended on May 8 , and soon after the Squadron was informed that it would be going to the Far East as part of the ‘ Tiger Force ’ , and on June 16 Sugar went with the rest of the unit to Metheringham to prepare for the move . |
| 6 | ‘ Like us , they 're all going to the yearly meeting in New York . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ And she 's going to the big party on Saturday ’ |
| 8 | THE proceeds of a vintage vehicle rally being held in Toomebridge this Saturday are going to the Cardiac Unit of the Waveney Hospital , Ballymena . |
| 9 | In actual fact , you see the plan , the two houses are going to the bottom end of the site , as far away to the adja adjacent to West Holm . |
| 10 | Often , however , it is clear that the commissioners took over an existing track between two villages and straightened it a little , without going to the extreme length of drawing entirely new roads . |
| 11 | Is n't that going to the very heart of prayer — a two-way conversation in which we talk and in which we do some listening as well ? |
| 12 | The following morning , accompanied at Aunt Emily 's command by a trembling Lyddy who was sure she was going to the very mouth of Hades , Alexandra was driven out to Trelorne , dressed very much as she had been when she trespassed along the shore . |
| 13 | He was eighteen years old , and he was going to the Royal Academy in London to learn to be an artist . |
| 14 | The leave-taking this time was formal , bearing none of the displays of emotion that had marked Prince Richard 's departure — the queen-dowager was but bidding farewell , it was thought , to her son 's bride , a young lady who was going to the royal palace within the Tower to keep company for a time with her husband . |
| 15 | Next year he 's going to the Royal College of Music . |
| 16 | They said they were going to the local pub for a meal if I 'd like to join them . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , you know , just ordinary stuff like roast beef and Yorkshire pudding on Sundays , going to the local pub for a quick drink , wonderful shopping sprees in London … ’ |
| 18 | Residents in the service road not surprisingly are complaining that excessive speeds are used er by these vehicles using this rat run and this is causing a danger to children going to the local school at that time of the day . |
| 19 | The form allows applicants to state their choice between going to the local office of the department for interview , or having one of their officers call on them at home . |
| 20 | A WARNING that the Church of Scotland 's parish structure could collapse in the face of threatened cuts in funding has been made in a report to go to the General Assembly in May . |
| 21 | Eva had only been at Usher a couple of months and was preparing to go to the International College for Officers ( ICO ) in London on a refresher course after her long years overseas . |
| 22 | There will then be another round of letters , known as ‘ reasoned opinions ’ , after which , if no deal is struck , the matter could have to go to the European Court of Justice . |
| 23 | Apart from codifying the rights of the individual , a Bill of Rights would iron out the curious anomaly to which Lord Taylor referred and might in addition save time and money because far fewer decisions by British judges would need to go to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 24 | Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product . |
| 25 | In a similar fashion it was becoming common for quite trivial legal disputes to go to the papal Curia on appeal : this was to transform the very nature of papal jurisdiction and authority , and is a striking example of the cosmopolitan links and assumptions of twelfth-century culture . |
| 26 | and one day she said , Now then John I want to go to the other school to Mr , the schoolmaster to get a book . |
| 27 | When we discussed it , it became clear that there is a wide spectrum of response to the whole issue of private care , that the response from within the statutory services tends to be one of suspicion , tends to be one of sometimes a fairly moralistic approach and this is quite at odds with the response we are seeing from the government which tends to go to the other end of the spectrum and be promoting private care as the solution to many of the problems of service provision and volume that are being encountered at the moment . |
| 28 | It was amazing to have to go to the other side of the world to hear people talking the same language . |
| 29 | ‘ The challengers have always had to go to the other side of the Atlantic now it 's their turn to come to England . |
| 30 | ‘ The challengers have always had to go to the other side of the Atlantic now it 's their turn to come to England . |