Example sentences of "[verb] going [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put going down to the English Centre and using the computer |
| 2 | Stop go stop going on about the bloody microphone ! |
| 3 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 4 | he just do n't like going down to the deep end |
| 5 | It was not everyone who would have relished going off into the dark forest ; Lugh did not relish it at all , in fact . |
| 6 | ‘ I never like going in through the front door , ’ Ace said , ‘ but I guess you 're right . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I could try going back to the Steering Committee ’ he said ‘ and simply tell them what 's happened . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , I started going out with the Thai development workers , to visit villages and meet the people I would be working with for the next two years . |
| 9 | I kept going back to the interesting and varied articles , and I liked the fact that it is neither too career-oriented nor too mumsy . |
| 10 | I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software . |
| 11 | the basis is you keep going in at the wrong level it 's the educational process at ground level |
| 12 | So that really means going on to the Labour resolutions and the Liberal resolutions |
| 13 | ‘ If you can do that , then you have in your mind what the strong target notes are and you can start going in with the other notes of the scale . |
| 14 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |