Example sentences of "go to the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There developed a scrabble amongst dealers to avoid going to the bottom of the heap . |
| 2 | Your analogy would be more accurate if you 'd talked of a mechanic saying he was going to the boot of my car to check the battery , having of course meant to say the bonnet . |
| 3 | Gary Lineker to spend a month in sunny Swindon , before going to the land of the rising sun . |
| 4 | Yes , an and what really upset the erm the , the members of the scheme and the pensioners was the fact that the money was going to actually erm fund the redundancy per programme er for the business and was going to the benefit of the employees and none of it was going to the actual pensioners . |
| 5 | ‘ He was seen going to the top of the tower . |
| 6 | This time a team from Gloucestershire are going to the top of the world . |
| 7 | yes , it 's already going to the top of the charts to be number one for Christmas all the other Christmas songs are |
| 8 | There was also a large new bookshop and several shops selling stationery and filing cabinets and offering the opportunity of faxing or photocopying documents of such significance that they must be duplicated , but Camille 's mother could not buy a mop bucket or a length of elastic or a wheel of cheese without going to the centre of town . |
| 9 | The House will recall that a computer scientist , Mr. Melvyn Davies , was clubbed and slashed in Oxford while going to the help of his girl friend , who had herself been stabbed in the body and in the face . |
| 10 | The reason that Scotton Parish Council are opposed to a road of the type shown in the key diagram , is that they do not consider and I do not consider that a road in that position , going to the north of Knaresborough , could effectively meet that need to relieve the A fifty nine . |
| 11 | So are big ones : Claire was going to the south of France . |
| 12 | Hearing that Peggy van Praagh was going to the south of France with a friend and had a spare seat in her car , he asked if he might come too . |
| 13 | If I 'm going to the South of France I want to stay there for awhile |
| 14 | After going to the village of Birdsall the route heads to Thixendale . |
| 15 | If a major term of the agreement , going to the heart of the contract , is breached , this term , called a condition , allows a plaintiff to repudiate the contract . |
| 16 | Charity schools were inexpensive and could be readily supplied in the boom years , while even such an early champion of the bourgeoisie as Defoe could approve their attack on sloth and indiscipline as going to the heart of the problem of the labouring poor . |
| 17 | While travelling from Kano to Lagos an officer of the French army recounts to a British member of the Nigerian Civil Service the mysterious circumstances in which , going to the relief of a desert fort manned by legionnaires , surrounded by rebel Tuaregs , he reaches his objective only to find no sign of a battle or siege , but a fort defended by corpses . |
| 18 | He knew that it would be going to the Ministry of Defence , but the paperwork submitted to the Department of Trade and Industry would state that the purchaser was the Ministry of Agriculture ; Department of Trade and Industry rules said that manufactured goods could be exported to Iraq only if they had no military usage . |
| 19 | I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education . |
| 20 | For a number of seasons , before I began teaching at New York University and going to the Horn of Africa during the early part of the season , I was a tipster for the Sydney Morning Herald . |
| 21 | But now , going to the Mountains of the Moon without her would have been heart-breaking , and I was overjoyed when she decided to join me . |
| 22 | The legal model has one further method by which it attempts to balance the desirability of going to the managers of the company substantial discretionary power so that they have sufficient flexibility to act effectively , whilst at the same time minimizing the danger that the existence of such discretion creates , which is that it will be used arbitrarily . |
| 23 | She was torn between staying with her father and going to the remainder of the course . |
| 24 | Better still , instead of retreating back to the crossroads , they were going to the cover of the dark wood which ran like a bastion down the left flank of the French route to Quatre Bras . |
| 25 | William Rees , 61 , a consultant ophthalmic surgeon , of Tonteg , Mid Glamorgan , had been going to the Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend , where a patient was already under anaesthetic , when police stopped him . |
| 26 | For the best way to job-hunt in Europe is by going to the country of your choice for a few weeks and signing up with several private employment agencies . |
| 27 | They were going to the home of opera , to listen to some Verdi , Puccini and Donizetti ; and to see at first hand the fine art and architecture that he had studied and only previously heard about or seen in books . |
| 28 | ‘ There is no man or devil who will stop me from going to the home of my family , ’ said Sir Henry angrily . |
| 29 | Others , such as Engels ( 1972 ) , have argued that this particular form of domestic oppression exists in order that men may be sure that they pass such property as they possess to their heirs without fear of it going to the sons of other men . |
| 30 | The couple were not going to the palace of Saint Cloud , which would certainly not have provided an intimate setting for a honeymoon , but to a small house at Villeneuve l'Etang , which the Emperor had purchased himself . |