Example sentences of "[adv] going [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It was a pleasant voice , with an undertone of humour , and Alexandra was immediately jealous , envisaging Matthew and his secretary in his office , laughing together , sharing jokes about his work , perhaps going out for a quick meal before they both went home . |
2 | ‘ We inhabitants of the post-historical world ’ , he trumpets , ‘ will have to keep in mind that the truly fundamental transformation in world politics are not going on in a desolate Middle Eastern desert , but back in cette vielle Europe which was the cradle of the idea of human freedom ’ . |
3 | I am bound to say My Lords that my own view is still that the size within the limits laid down by statute with a minimum of sixteen or eighteen and maximum of twenty-four would best be determined locally and if we 're not going in for a national police force , I still ca n't see what it has to do with the Secretary of State and why the Home Office should be settling the size of forty-three or so police authorities . |
4 | But I 'm not going out with a bloody cold like this ! |
5 | with , with my granddaughter , she , she did the same s she used to go and babysit at this girl 's house and she fe felt , she was only fourteen , and she felt sorry for her and she 'd go and babysit every night she 'd go and babysit and er but she used to b sit up in the bedroom , she never ever went down the sitting room thinking that the child 's mother was either down in the sitting room or just going out for a short while and coming back and then eventually they put erm a bed up in the child 's bedroom for Denise to stay there over nights and Pearl did n't worry at all , well she knew , knew where , at least she knew where and er this girl was bringing men back down in the sitting room every night , three or four , sometimes ten men in a night during the night ! |
6 | It was rather like going down into a horrid , dark , earthy hole , where dull crimson firs burned and where grinning creatures might be peering at you from the shadows . |
7 | If you stopped making up your face — which is a perfectly good one and needs no camouflage — and gave up going about like a languishing lily , and got that gory stuff off your nails , you 'd be your old self again . |
8 | I do not mean being reactionary , simply going back to a past state of affairs , I mean reaction as the antithesis of action . |
9 | The teams played four matches , spread over several weeks , against each of the others , with the top two then going through to a best-of-three final . |