Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] going [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 What excuse could I make for going out into the garden ? "
2 Perhaps it 's the editor of Living Marxism who should think about going back to an educational establishment ?
3 Some German women are up in arms , No thank you , they say to going back to the role of mothers and home builders .
4 so , if , if , if they 're all four of them coming er and she says about going in for a meal I shall say oh well if you feel like it go and do that then and come for your tea I mean it 's just putting them round table is n't it ?
5 It was peaceful with the plop-of the gas fire and the dark sky outside through the window , for like many old people Doris did not draw her curtains till late and Linda did not feel like going back to the bustle of tea-time , but she could n't keep them waiting for their tea .
6 There will also be a ‘ menu ’ of six visits from which visitors can choose before going on to a buffet supper with members of the Faculty .
7 The stones are sometimes said to turn round or dance before going down to the local stream or lake to drink .
8 So it 's use the red obviously the title and the red 's for your introduction to say what you 're going to say then say it by using your greens and then say what you 've said by going back to the red and coming back to your objective .
9 Because this was a Thursday and he had never thought of going out on a Thursday before , and because of the previous Saturday night , coming back to collect the washing .
10 This takes a full litre of water — enough for one-and-a-half hours of constant steam ironing without going back to the tap .
11 ‘ Saturday 's situation appears to have been caused because people delayed before going out into the rain . ’
12 David Macdonald made a series of quota quickies before going on to a larger budget with the striking comedy-thriller This Man is News ( 1938 ) , and Michael Powell built a reputation as a director of energetic quota films before making his mainstream début with Edge of the World ( 1937 ) , about the depopulation of a remote island in the Shetlands .
13 She is advised to stay there for five days but insists on going back with the band .
14 We thought about going down on the saturday and staying at Great Yarmouth and then driving to the match .
15 When Frank heard that Michael thought of going in for the prize on this set book he was indignant and sent a message to Michael , ‘ Who in his senses would read a book by a bishop ? ’
16 And then she could n't cope with going out to the people there .
17 In the morning , though our route lay the other way , I insisted on going back to the old station for one more look .
18 Yeah but I 'm talking about going up to the gym .
19 You talking about going out on the streets , it does n't get them anywhere half the time .
20 The technical parts of the job — the sampling procedures , the use of chemicals and equipment — can be learned by going around with a more experienced officer for a week or so .
21 They had all come back for lunch but the women had rebelled at going out in the afternoon .
22 Austin , Texas-based , Tivoli Systems Inc has appointed Chris Grafft as vice president of Unix development : the distributed management software company , which has collected $6m in venture money so far , is thinking of going out for a ‘ few million ’ more in a third round .
23 ‘ You are n't thinking of going out into the jungle to exercise for old times ’ sake ? ’
24 I understand that it is possible , even at this late stage , that the review itself could be overturned by the refusal of France to agree the new allocation of seats and we 've already had an exchange on that , Mr Deputy Speaker , which indicates that whatever we decide today might actually be overthrown and overturned completely by the inability of the French to ratify their part of the arrangement , er the minister referred to it as a massive inconvenience , I suggest that if we have to resort to going back to the old boundaries to fight these elections and indeed the problems that that will cause for the selection of candidates as well , that that will be one of the greatest understatements that even this house has heard .
25 The paper concludes with one view of how a workable integration practice might be achieved by going back to the drawing-board and examining the aims and objectives of educational integration .
26 But they remained Germans , always dreaming of going back to the Fatherland one day . ’
27 The real problem when it comes to going out with an infant is the amount of clobber you have to take with you .
28 I want to begin by going back to an argument that Aristotle put forward in the Ethics , since I think that the point at which his argument breaks down can illuminate the nature of the problem some feminist thinking has faced .
29 If any walls appear to lean , check by going back to the nearest upper window and drop a plumb line down .
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