Example sentences of "[noun sg] going [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a terrible rumpus going on outside . ’ |
| 2 | This is n't true , the logging practices were atrocious , and even tribal burial grounds have been uprooted by the loggers , and the number of deaths last year , in 1989 , logging deaths was 94 , because they 're sending loggers up even steep slopes to get the timber than they would normally , so there 's actually a lot of bad practice going on , so we 're hoping to fund Friends of the Earth , Malaysia in their environmental programme to help the indigenous people defend themselves , and therefore the forest better . |
| 3 | His origins are obscure , but he seems to have been a German from one of the tribes which were allowed to settle within the Empire , and for which privilege they were liable for military service , a practice going back to the late third century . |
| 4 | But the starry-eyed youngster and his mother , Fawns , got a real taste of the big time when they saw last night 's programme going out live from the control room of Studio One at Television Centre . |
| 5 | Fawns ( 34 ) has spent time on the East Enders and Blind Date sets as part of an interior and television set design course at Telford College , but she was impressed after seeing a programme going out live . |
| 6 | ‘ Though I 've got to tell you there 's some gossip going around about the cousin you 've got staying . ’ |
| 7 | Cos one of the things that I said , you know , just when I was looking through the last five or six months is that it did seem er , to be inconsistent in terms of certain areas like the first floor , there 's an awful lot of reporting going on but , there was very little from the other , from the other areas . |
| 8 | I call the police and describe the sounds of the fighting going on above my head . |
| 9 | and there 's , and there 's enough fighting going on in this bloody house |
| 10 | But it 's much too early to have a load of championship talk going on . |
| 11 | Well there was erm during the eighties , for instance , there was a lot of talk going on about having some changes within the constitution . |
| 12 | Talent going down drain . |
| 13 | I think it would be very foolish of er of the government to stop that kind of er innovation , that kind of er er research going forward without knowing what the end results are going to be . |
| 14 | Could you say a little bit more about the research going on in the Education Area ? |
| 15 | Whenever I visit Ian , seeing the fostering going on in various degrees , I 'm filled with admiration and feel I want to let the world know . |
| 16 | I heard Luney arrive , heard her talking to Franky and then the boat going away . |
| 17 | We are paddling at 45 degrees to the sea so on every wave the paddle must be just so to stop the boat going over . |
| 18 | I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal . |
| 19 | It 's lucky I was n't in the water then floating , cos that would 've been dangerous with that boat going past . |
| 20 | And the the boat going underneath just er at the right sort of time . |
| 21 | I thought that , in spite of the noise of the birds , I would have heard a hammer going down there along the cliffs . |
| 22 | Well , seem funny a boxer going around with a tail wo n't it ? |
| 23 | Listen to people on the Continent going on about the inadequacies of their own health-care systems . |
| 24 | ‘ This is intrusive , see , there 's the fault going up there and squirts of lava coming down . ’ |
| 25 | Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road . |
| 26 | No , if they bid for the franchise , then , and get it , obviously that franchise runs for the period , and by the way , a lot of the criticisms in the film , I think were based on a misunderstanding that all the franchises are going to be short , they 're not , those where there 's a substantial investment going in can be quite a bit longer |
| 27 | Where was that ambulance going yesterday ? |
| 28 | I do n't mind it , but it 's pretty hard going to sleep with this banging going on . |
| 29 | Research on natural hazards has a long tradition in geography going back more than half a century . |
| 30 | Ooh there 's a delicate little drawing going on here . |