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

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1 When he came alongside a trawler 25 miles out from the English coast he asked : ‘ Am I going in the right direction for France ? ’
2 He believes — as any political leader must believe , to keep himself going through the grinding work of electioneering — that victory is out there , but that the voters are making the Tories work hard for it .
3 Then a little genuine humility will help you to work on the negative side and this will get you going on the right track .
4 ‘ Are n't you going in the wrong direction ? ’
5 This ensure that there is something going on the whole time for both the spectator and the participator .
6 When we going to the Caribbean mum .
7 I can see the problems now , people come up to you and whisper in your ear , how comes he 's on the list , I saw him going into the Liberal club or the Tory club the other day , he 's not a Labour supporter .
8 Huy tried to imagine her going through the simple ceremony with someone else , and could not .
9 Against Poland at Lansdowne Road , the underfoot moon-rock masquerading as a soccer pitch put paid to anything going into the Polish net other than by fortuitous ricochet , or some such happy accident .
10 On the one hand the state is reluctant to make them better off than the ‘ good ’ housewife , married and ‘ supported ’ by her husband ( the exact amount of ‘ support ’ decided by him alone ) ; on the other hand , of course , the status of the married housewife is so low that virtually anything going to the single mother makes her better off .
11 Whereas love is the accelerator which gets us moving , fear is the brake which prevents us going in the wrong direction .
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