Example sentences of "[noun] going [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The reason that you use hot air is to keep that combustion going at a good temperature .
2 ‘ It 's tough on a horse going to a new home , especially a stallion ’ , his new owner said .
3 There was one bad moment , when he met a car going in the opposite direction .
4 The stout refusal , and then the shambling figure going up the long path beside the river , up to the house .
5 The future 's not certain for Little Jay , but to prevent other animals going through the same agony police say owners must be extra-vigilant .
6 If in doubt , keep two provisional subjects going for the first half of the first term — and then drop the one that appeals to you the less .
7 Because the dower is always settled on the bride and her family either in kind or in cash or both , it has inevitably led to the stigma of ‘ selling and buying ’ , to stories of a girl going to the highest bidder .
8 Some magnetic mounts could be done in order to fully utilise all available units but with a larger proportion of the work going to the faster unit .
9 ROTOR WING FLIGHT TEST Going for the big stuff
10 Access to the innards of the machine is reasonably good ; the only problem lies in reaching the RAM upgrade slots , which are obstructed by the wires going from the hard drive to the ISA board .
11 ‘ The wood going into a 40 gallon barrel , it 's been about a hundredweight of wood .
12 Though they failed to make up a similar deficit against Essex on day two , losing 5–4 , their two doubles victories kept up their tally of rubbers going into the final day .
13 Harris opened his first London gallery in 1928 when only twenty years old , concentrating largely on Spanish Old Masters , and held his last and widely acclaimed exhibition ‘ From Greco to Goya ’ in November 1938 , during the Spanish Civil War , all proceeds going to the Red Cross .
14 A Walker Cup player from San Francisco , Venturi ( pictured ) had rounds of 66 , 69 and 75 at Augusta , to lead the Masters by four strokes going into the final round .
15 There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data .
16 Was the condition of the patient already in the ambulance so critical , so life threatening as to justify the ambulance driver going through the red traffic light at such a speed , that the victim was carried 30 yards on the bonnet ?
17 In the first round of voting 19 of the 28 seats were decided , with the remainder going to a second round ; 82 per cent of the 8,592-strong electorate went to the polls ( most of Andorra 's population of 60,000 being foreigners and not entitled to vote ) .
18 From this side of town , the footpath led across the fields to the bank of the stream where it divided , one branch going to the new council estate and Sewingbury , the other to the centre of Kingsmarkham High Street , at the Kingsbrook bridge .
19 Alan Bates stars as a middle-aged illustrator going through the worst mid-life crisis I have ever witnessed .
20 Former Hawarden member Seve Giardina now at Berkhampstead led the field going into the final round but fell away badly after a triple bogey six at the par 3 eighth .
21 Following this , the children come to realise that pictures are part of a tradition ; finally , children may be prepared to make a judgement going beyond an individual culture .
22 Maybe we 'll come across a friendly native with a forked stick going in the right direction and I 'll give him the big-screen smile and hand it over .
23 This was a real blow to me , as I had done well in form 5a at school and had to watch my luckier contemporaries going into the sixth form for another year with the sure prospect of getting to teacher training college , or the luckiest of them all , to university .
24 This meant actually producing and maintaining a series of questions directed at the CEGB 's expert witnesses , most of whom had clearly spent many hours going through every conceivable pitfall .
25 During Mark 's absence in Spain , ‘ the mole ’ Fred Klepner had spent countless hours going over the Ten Year Business plan which was to be the subject of the presentation Mark was to give to Nate Cocello at the next Planning Committee meeting .
26 But Jimenez blasted a best-of-the-week 63 for a two-stroke lead going into the final day at Crans-Sur-Sierre .
27 Watson slipped to a 77 in the third round while Nowicki shot his record breaking 67 , but the lead going into the final round was shared by MacPherson and Cottrell , who added a 71 to his earlier rounds of 73–74 .
28 We 'd gone miles , then saw your tracks going in the opposite direction , so we doubled back . ’
29 Hips going in the opposite direction to the feet , ending in Ethel standing on one leg like a stork the other leg wrapped round Sid 's waist and he bending over backwards with his head touching the floor .
30 DERRICK COOPER , hitting one sharp iron after another through the hazy morning air , handed in a 66 — six under par — to share the lead with Keith Waters and Barry Lane going into the second round of the Jersey European Airways Open .
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