Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] going [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Shelley Howard , senior biologist of the Severn-Trent Region said the officer cadets had been involved in strenuous exercises which involved repeatedly going under the water .
2 So just wait to see just going to the committee .
3 I put off going to the doctor but I wish I had n't because my GP immediately knew what was wrong and told me about carpal tunnel syndrome .
4 She certainly had not been able to learn to swim when the other children did ; in fact she had constantly been in trouble at school because she would invent any excuse to avoid even going near the swimming pool .
5 The previous day the free speech people had drawn an acceptable cartoon which Eliot had agreed to publish and so they had given up going to the office .
6 ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start — perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was because the heat was so intense . ’
7 ‘ It 's difficult to understand why he might have been moving badly going to the start , perhaps it was the dirt or maybe it was the heat . ’
8 We 've got six months work just wai you know just going through the process at the moment .
9 ‘ I remember also going to the Bank of England vaults to see whole rooms piled to the ceilings with gold bars . ’
10 Only in the last ten years or so had he been able to give up going to the country towns and villages for uncomfortable , if lucrative , one- or two-day visits ; only then had he found it possible to move from Jewtown to commodious rooms in Patrick Street , Cork 's main thoroughfare , where he could live as well as have his surgery .
11 Erm so how much time are you spending just going to the school ?
12 But he 's eating well going to the loo alright .
13 if you end up going to the office and it 's the same layout as it it it was and the same people there ,
14 Yeah I do n't know whether that swing will end up going to the tip if it comes down , it 's a bit rusty int it ?
15 At least half the fund 's assets could end up going to the Treasury — a move which pensioners are calling the second Great Train Robbery .
16 No it 's normally from Saturday morning till Sunday morning I just think we 'll end up going for the day but he said , he 's got Gerry coming up from Hull to mind the shop on Saturday , he said oh you 're tired and you need a change and a rest he said something like erm
17 He wondered how long it would be before they gave up going to the clearing altogether .
18 This involves either going through the transcript with the child 's caretakers and inviting comments and interpretations on specific utterances , or playing the recording back and making detailed notes about movements and activities of the participants during the recording period .
19 ‘ My brother , Mark , is on one song which we had cut a while ago and it wound up going on the record because it was such a good demo . ’
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