Example sentences of "[adv] going [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tried to reassure him that this was n't the case , that newspeople were merely going for the stories with the biggest hook . |
| 2 | yes , it 's already going to the top of the charts to be number one for Christmas all the other Christmas songs are |
| 3 | As I approach his car , Eddie was already going through the appointments for the day , studying customer record cards on which each call is recorded . |
| 4 | For the first time she was really listening , not going through the motions of an argument . |
| 5 | No , not going into the shop at least , yeah . |
| 6 | The couple were not going to the palace of Saint Cloud , which would certainly not have provided an intimate setting for a honeymoon , but to a small house at Villeneuve l'Etang , which the Emperor had purchased himself . |
| 7 | Oh I 'm not going in the car in the fog . |
| 8 | You could perhaps team up with somebody else if you wanted to , so if you see someone and we 're just going through the order in which they appear . |
| 9 | Ages is n't it I thought I 'd tidy up in his desk and I was just going through the mound of papers , and I said here you are here 's your licence , finish it off , fill it in , and I 'll give you the cheque . |
| 10 | We 've got six months work just wai you know just going through the process at the moment . |
| 11 | She tells me that ‘ the mother is just going through the process of grieving for the child she has n't had ’ ( the child is already eight months old ) : the health visitor 's instruction in the art of creating unpersons has been exemplary , and no doubt she is keen to pass this on to the mother . |
| 12 | So I mean , we 're just going through the motions at the moment , I mean , quite hone |
| 13 | I think they were just going through the motions of what had worked before . |
| 14 | yes it 's more it 's just going through the motions of a story at the moment rather than |
| 15 | We go to work , eat , sleep , get married , have children , get divorced , always just going through the motions without being involved , without sparkle , without real enjoyment or genuine pain . |
| 16 | But I know that er the one or two people who told me that they 're going , er we were just going to the service in the church and then |
| 17 | He was all right going up the stairs till half-way . |
| 18 | And erm you could see a long distance with it like that you know , especially if you could see a fox from er about a mile and a half , you could see right going along the rocks in the mountains . |
| 19 | He climbed back into bed , laying the cello on the right-hand pillow , which was more practical since the telephone was on the left-hand side , and read some music while the child went on going through the numbers in the telephone directory . |
| 20 | He went on going through the motions of being a poet until the very end , and inevitably , because he kept in practice , hit upon some successes — ‘ gleams like the flashing of a shield ’ occur in unexpected places . |
| 21 | Cecil Moores has passed on , but John is still going at the age of 96 . |
| 22 | Although it was very rough at first , but I got used with it even when the seasickness caught me up going round the top of the highland , but once he was away from that and er I was n't a drinker in these days but some old man says to me , er before you go to a meal , he says , take a drop of brandy . |
| 23 | In describing these ways of sensing , I am probably going beyond the bounds of what pertains especially to the feminine , since these are basic human abilities . |
| 24 | ‘ Now when I know the boys are preparing for another game and I 'm not there , I will miss it ; the familiar routine , meeting at the Petersham Hotel in Richmond on a Wednesday night , the late meal , the exchange of views as people come in ; the Thursday morning training , dashing round to golf or wherever in the afternoon , the team meeting in the evening , the Friday session , probably going to the cinema at night , the leg pulling , the nervous jokes on the Saturday of the game itself , the closing in from the outside world . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I remember also going to the Bank of England vaults to see whole rooms piled to the ceilings with gold bars . ’ |
| 26 | Those who live with it day and night are now going down the road to compensation , and a legal battle with the Department of Transport . |
| 27 | She was now going through the door into the store-room behind the shop when her father said , ‘ Mind , close up at nine sharp , Aggie . |
| 28 | The receivers are now going through the books of his company A F Budge , of Retford , Notts . |
| 29 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 30 | There 's nothing wrong with being optimistic , but Bulgarian sweeper Nicolai Iliev is surely going over the top with his prediction . |