Example sentences of "going [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm going my own way now . ’ |
| 2 | She was going her own sweet way , totally unconcerned about what might be going on in her wake . |
| 3 | They talked for two hours before going their separate ways , he up the Amazon and she bound for Canada . |
| 4 | The on-screen couple , quietly glowing with beauty and amusement — they seemed made for each other ; but after various misunderstandings and adventures they ended up going their separate ways . |
| 5 | For most snails , courtship is a fairly straightforward affair ; the two snails meet and , being hermaphrodites ( each individual having male and female parts ) , exchange both eggs and sperm , before going their separate ways . |
| 6 | They believed that emotions should be let out and then mastered ; there was their Protestantism , fighting the good fight , the insistence on going their own way , ; their fear and dislike of cities ; their psychological as well as actual isolation from the body of mankind ; their awareness of the stigma of art ; a distrust of the intellect when fed on abstractions ; a desire to get ‘ beyond ’ art to a kind of heaven and a paradoxical belief in art activity as a means of shedding psychic sickness . |
| 7 | Liberals saw this as evidence that the dominions were more interested in going their own way , but Unionists retorted that Canada like Britain had been led astray by a radical government and that Canada 's decision was the result of Britain 's failure to offer preference . |
| 8 | the there are choice , either submission or going their own way , the pride of the world |
| 9 | Audrey Kinkead , the secretary of the Badminton Union of Ireland and an IBF and EBU council member , is delighted with the decision as there was a danger that the sport would split with the men and women going their own way . |
| 10 | But now the venerable types are going their own separate ways . |
| 11 | Strong and creative relationships between schools and within an LEA result in a richness of educational provision which could not be achieved by each school going its own way . |
| 12 | ‘ Watch where you 're going you clumsy clots ! ’ |
| 13 | did you find it stiff sticking to a millimetre , going you crap bastard why did n't you hold it . |
| 14 | He leaned out of his window and shouted : ‘ Watch the way you 're funking going you ugly trollop . ’ |
| 15 | But with his damnable purity , which they all praised after his death , Modigliani insisted on going his own way . |
| 16 | Already , even before the move , Herbert was ‘ going his own way ’ , and there had been a period of separation the previous year when Grace took the children to stay in Cape Town for six months or more . |
| 17 | The borrowed book may be a fiction taken from Isadore of Seville , one of Hoccleve 's sources , but the liveliness , and the determination with which Hoccleve insists on going his own way , whatever his friends advise , is lifelike enough . |
| 18 | ‘ Going his own mysterious way , I should imagine . |
| 19 | ‘ I suppose we just took it that he would , and were n't surprised that he made a pretence of being unconcerned and going his own way about it . |
| 20 | He was fourteen years old , intelligent , forceful , capable of listening attentively to his ministers and then overruling them and going his own way , capable , even , or so they said , of arguing a case strenuously and sensibly against the king himself in Westminster , though he seldom won his way there ; but he was still a boy , unpractised , with little experience yet of living . |
| 21 | ‘ Going Our Separate Ways We 've Never Been So Close ’ said the caption boldly . |
| 22 | Naturally , we are going our best to ensure these standards of service are met . |
| 23 | ‘ We are going our own ways , but hopefully one day we will get together . |