Example sentences of "going [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A huge octopus , octopus -ish , had these massive tentacles that 's going right the way across the ceiling ! |
| 2 | Very easy to simply turn into this lane instead of going right the way over to the other side . |
| 3 | Well it 's just the thing to keep the operators going on the night shift . |
| 4 | Long before going solo the student should have learned the mnemonic by heart . |
| 5 | See , just keep going so the flint 's gone . |
| 6 | He had brought out his lists , four sheets , and had got them half fixed to the door when Allan knocked him aside and tore them down and then spent an hour , with James 's help , going down the names and telling the young men to their faces whether or not they were listed . |
| 7 | After making the running for the first circuit , he let Royal Cedar take a breather going down the back for the last time , with Seagram and Durham Edition leading him down the hill . |
| 8 | She told me , too , of the mines , and how some of the young boys were terrified of going down the pit for the first time , but had to go , as there was no other work for them ; and how at first they had been put to work beside their father , loading the coal he cut , until they had overcome their fear . |
| 9 | ‘ Like a band of gipsies going down the highway , ’ sing these menopausal Monkees , ‘ we 're the best of friends . ’ |
| 10 | Breaking the top of the bend will leave a jagged projection to gently chisel out , after plugging the soil pipe with paper or rag , to prevent particles going down the pipe and possibly blocking the drain . |
| 11 | Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was . |
| 12 | I was gritting my teeth , thinking , ‘ Thank god we 're going down the 18th . ’ |
| 13 | He rejected the customary function of wingers of going down the line and crossing the ball . |
| 14 | Going down the cinder path to the screen in the dark , with our one feeble torch , was always horrendous because of the rats scuttling across the path . |
| 15 | Growing companies are among those most at risk , she claims , when going down the old-fashioned selection route . |
| 16 | She turned away , shutting her eyes to adjust them to the darkness , and then with no further hesitation she was going down the rope hand over hand , her feet and knees checking at each knot . |
| 17 | Going down the Rapids becomes a test of masculinity . |
| 18 | More designers are going down the locking tuner route and it 's something which I personally welcome ; it does away with that lumpiness at the nut end of the fingerboard and offers up a more traditional look into the bargain . |
| 19 | Say 12345 , first making your voice go up the scale ( you are not singing , just using your speaking voice ) , then going down the scale . |
| 20 | Cathy Gunn is going down the catwalk in cashmere and has selected Dawson International . |
| 21 | The US factories had evolved into organisations that set out tightly circumscribed jobs , fixed procedures , absolutely nothing in terms of flexible working , multi-skilling , employee responsiveness — any of those sorts of things — and they took a look at Japanese cost patterns and thought that American industry was just going down the plug . ’ |
| 22 | Inside illustration : why is art going down the tubes ? |
| 23 | He looked unbelieving and said , ‘ But surely you remember when we were going down the eighth , you were coming up the ninth , and I waved and your wife waved back , and then you waved . ’ |
| 24 | Squeezing away so that his biceps shifted in his sleeve , he asked ‘ so , Rog , what 's going down the chute ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I can remember going down the Speakeasy with The Clash to look for models to give us cocaine and blow jobs . |
| 26 | Someone 's got to have hope and want to change something — because the UK 's going down the pan . |
| 27 | I was still boxing by going down the London gym of Danny Peacock-Gordon was a friend of his . |
| 28 | Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ . |
| 29 | Also going down the lighter weight waterproof path are Mountain Equipment with their new Alpine Suit in Gore-Tex and 2-ply Taslan . |
| 30 | Well , I 'd started going down the nick . |