Example sentences of "[noun] going [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road .
2 Our most controversial cover last year showed a photograph of a red car going around a Swiss hairpin , with the headline ‘ Ford 's new Escort meets its rivals ’ , and then , underlined in red , ‘ … and loses ’ .
3 A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ .
4 So if you put a big heavy engine going down a cast iron railway which wo n't
5 It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit .
6 Yeah well the thing is that something 's got ta shift because we 've got we 've got all these bloody flights going out the same time
7 There 's a crush over by the door in one of the rooms , with flashbulbs going off every few seconds , but it 's impossible to get near enough to see .
8 Then there 's er the door the door at forty feet and there 's er a gunmetal ladder going up the forty feet you 've got to climb up to get into the door .
9 Mind you 're still got , still getting a lot of heat going up the old chimney are n't you ?
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