Example sentences of "going [prep] london " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the Downshurst bypass there were six steady lanes of vehicles coming and going between London and the sea . |
| 2 | Does he agree that the serious deterioration of air quality in London arises mainly from increasing vehicle movements and that the best course would therefore be to improve public transport , reduce the number of cars going through London and ensure cleaner fuels and cleaner burn to preserve the health of our children , who are suffering grievously because of the increasing levels of pollution in central London ? |
| 3 | How , are ye thinking of going tae London ? ’ |
| 4 | At the decade 's start everything was gloom and doom , cutbacks the order of the day since in 1979 the number of commuters going into London dropped for the tenth successive year . |
| 5 | ‘ We worried about her but Elizabeth wrote back that she was more worried about us back here going into London with IRA bombs going off . ’ |
| 6 | Erm , a few , a very few years ago , I met a , a daughter of a friend on , on a bus , er going into London . |
| 7 | Puzzled and anxious and feeling very flat , after the heady excitement of her flight , Sara picked up her bags and went to find herself a seat on the bus going into London . |
| 8 | He says the justification is right behind us — this roundabout carries 44,000 vehicles a day — almost twice the number of cars going into London on the M40 every day . |
| 9 | Robbie , about going into London did you ? |
| 10 | ‘ I am going round London in 80 days , ’ I say , ‘ and intend to pick up a local bus at Heathrow ’ . |
| 11 | He made a special entry in his journal about ten unemployed men marching from Bootle to London , with seven who were going from London to Leeds ; they stayed for one night and were provided with tea and breakfast . |
| 12 | ‘ There 's still work going in London — I 'll try down there again . |
| 13 | I could think of nothing except going to London and finding my way among its tall buildings studded with lights . |
| 14 | Now I was conscious of Aisha 's words when we stood together in the storeroom and she tried to dissuade me from going to London : ‘ Go alone to London without an aunt or a husband or your mother and they 'll say you 've sold your soul . |
| 15 | I 'm going to London . |
| 16 | Entering the competition was entirely Barbara 's idea and when the phone call came through to say they 'd won , Betty was quite shocked to discover that she , too , was going to London to have a makeover — but she soon came round to the idea ! |
| 17 | Wet Wet Wet 's ‘ Wishing I Was Lucky ’ is about going to London , then returning disillusioned to Clydebank ; Danny Wilson 's ‘ Davey ’ is another anti-metropolis warning ; Hue and Cry 's ‘ Goodbye to Me ’ is about the disorientation and displacement of the jetset life , while Deacon Blue 's ‘ Town to Blame ’ and ‘ Dignity ’ and Kane Gang 's ‘ Looking for Gold ’ are about escaping smalltown constraints . |
| 18 | It is not ( like the rain in the example of my going to London ) just another reason to be added to the others , a reason to stand alongside the others when one reckons which way is better supported by reason . |
| 19 | They were going to London for some weeks : they have friends in high places , you know , and the eldest Miss Bretton-Fawcett , the daughter you know , is to come out next year . |
| 20 | His address was 74 Charlotte Street , Portland Place , and his friend Craig , who lived in London was probably one of the influences in his going to London . |
| 21 | Regularly going to London raves such as Labyrinth and Dance Party and drawing inspiration from them remains an essential part of her work and lifestyle . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Going to London , to Regional Health Authority to attend present petition and to see what they do about the animals petition . |
| 24 | Thus , if one wants to get to London , it is irrational to take a train which one should have known not to be going to London or which one wrongly calculated to be quicker than the bus . |
| 25 | There was one person I really wanted to visit before going to London . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm going to London tomorrow , Miss Havisham , ’ I said , choosing my words carefully , ‘ and I wanted to say goodbye . |
| 27 | ‘ Ian 's going to London , ’ announced my mother to one and all . |
| 28 | ‘ Going to London ? ’ he asked him finally . |
| 29 | ‘ I wonder if it was going to London , ’ said Bobbie . |
| 30 | One morning they were sitting on the fence , waiting for the 9.15 , when Phyllis said , ‘ It 's going to London , where Father is . |