Example sentences of "going [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when there was not a conflict of jurisdiction , there would often be much coming and going between the courts to ensure that the various aspects of a complex case were handled in unison ( see pp. 414 f . ) . |
| 2 | A special type is made for interlining boots going between the inner and the outer which is very thin but strong and has high warmth value . |
| 3 | One of the officials with whom I had dealings was John Hampden , who years later was to become a colleague ; but although he did his best to be co-operative , it was the men who held the purse-strings that counted , and , going between the MOI and Faber 's , I could not extract from officialdom any commitment and Eliot naturally needed certain specific undertakings regarding finance before Faber 's could think of commissioning a book , which also needed the Ministry 's imprimatur . |
| 4 | That is the portrait of a don , a don in his supreme incarnation , a don going about the business that he was designed for by nature . |
| 5 | It 's one of the busiest nightspots in the Mediterranean and the streets are simply crowded from dusk onwards with young people going about the serious business of enjoying themselves , socialising , trying the local brew , ‘ discovating ’ and generally having a good time until the early hours of the morning ! |
| 6 | Leopold related the news , and the Archbishop 's excuse for not having allowed father and son to travel the previous year : ‘ he said that he could not tolerate people going about the world begging ’ ( 31 August 1778 ) . |
| 7 | Two further points are of importance in going about the budgeting process . |
| 8 | But , even assuming its feasibility , this would be a grossly stupid way of going about the business , reducing the whole delicate operation to a clumsy manipulation of crudely simplified formulae . |
| 9 | Going about the place telling everyone what a fine fellow you are does little to improve your image . |
| 10 | The simplest way of getting an answer is to show the advertisement to a number of individuals selected from the target group , or to a group of them , and to get a discussion going about the ad . |
| 11 | They left the hatch open , and we could hear them going about the barge , arguing with the bargemen . |
| 12 | Romany mimed them going about the boat , looking here and looking there . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , Mum , ’ said Camille , cool with the confidence of the adolescent who knows that the rules of mortality , the risks inherent in living and going about the world , do not apply to her . |
| 14 | He enjoyed the camaraderie of police life and spent several minutes going about the murder squad office , exchanging pleasantries with officers he did not know and catching up with the latest news . |
| 15 | ‘ I remember him going about the village , collecting the details , the birth certificates and things . |
| 16 | Hrun going about the business of being a hero , he realised , was quite different to the wine-bibbing , carousing Hrun who occasionally came to Ankh-Morpork . |
| 17 | Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs . |
| 18 | ‘ He was last year about now but Easter 's late , I had n't thought on , and he 'll not move down until Palm Sunday like as not , and if he 's still over on the mountain he 'll be up Three Valleys Pass and that 's an hour and a half of a walk for him , going as the crow flies , but longer for us in the jeep because there 's no direct road — and then to get at him we 'd have to take a cart track that 'll be more like a river bed after yesterday 's rain . |
| 19 | This was the plane which kept the transatlantic service going during the Second World War . |
| 20 | I also kept my contacts and my work going during the golf season , even if I did it mostly by telephone . |
| 21 | Costs were pruned , with 10 per cent of all jobs going during the year . |
| 22 | Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then . |
| 23 | And in tutorials there is opportunity to take well judged risks — by which I mean being unafraid of going for the character and seeing where it leads — even with well known speeches . |
| 24 | The shelter that Jenny had found for me was in Camden Town , not too far away , so in order not to arrive there before it got going for the evening , I dawdled a little , window-shopping . |
| 25 | Power the lower leg into the target , aiming for a light smack if attacking the head , or a more solid thump if going for the ribs . |
| 26 | Near the summit on a steep , south-facing crag Going for the Jugular , which climbs the left-hand crack up the steep buttress on the left . |
| 27 | Llanelli ....... 27 Leicester ....... 8 GOING for the gap took on a painful new meaning for Steve Bowling when he helped Llanelli claw their way back to win this entertaining game . |
| 28 | In LBC 's case , for example , the LBC Crown FM is going for the upmarket listener , while the medium wave service , London Talkback Radio , is pitching for the tabloid market and the dedicated followers of phone-ins . |
| 29 | Day Out : Going for the gut reaction : James Rampton visits an exhibition serving Food For Thought |
| 30 | Or would Eden think of the air marshals , and the children who had lost their parents in a blitz , and former warriors who had seen too much blood on a battlefield , and exercise a silent veto , by going for the second preference ? |