Example sentences of "[be] going [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And if we draw a line it 's the analogy of someone pedalling on a bicycle , if you reach thirty five and you 're going up on a bicycle like that it 's reasonably steep but not too steep , you can cope with that on a regular basis .
2 Now , that obviously means , colleagues that we 're , we 're going over for a period of time , but we 're er slightly behind this afternoon , so certainly need to be trying to pull some work back .
3 Er , yes , Mr Chairman , nationally it is going down , locally we 're , we 're going along on a plateau , erm , and in some areas it is actually go the incidence is going up , but this is basically like Scotland where they have n't got many anyway .
4 Next time , we 're going back with a record player and a Thin Lizzy record , we 're going to plug it in and when he asks what the hell we 're doing , we 'll say , ‘ Just listening to that Les Paul on the wall there ! ' ’
5 We 're going back to a kind of rating system with the different assessment on valuations
6 and she said that 's just not the way it 's done , so she she saying to him now , if you da if you wet yourself once more you 're going back in a nappy .
7 Right we 're going down in a minute , yeah .
8 Has Mum told you that we 're going out for a Chinese ?
9 Underarm deodorant to make us smell nice when we 're going out to a party ?
10 What , like you 're going out to a pool
11 Yes she said we 're going out to a dinner party tonight , I thought golly
12 it 's you know , for the workers , they 're going out on a meal .
13 Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person
14 We 're going out in a minute anyway .
15 He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents .
16 The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now .
17 The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now .
18 ‘ It has been going on for a while — but not on the scale it is happening now .
19 They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions .
20 I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously .
21 I 've been going out with a bloke for about ten years , but I would n't marry him — I 'd have to be in to make his tea !
22 Sotheby 's told The Art Newspaper that ‘ there has been quite a large response to the Lloyd 's letter , but talks are going on with a view to possible changes in this arrangement ’ .
23 we a we are going , we are going out for a meal on Saturday night i er , in , with or without , we 're going out , I 've er we want to go to the when we went with .
24 Just wait here , I 'm going up for a bath first , you can
25 I 'm going down for a week from 10 May to see many of them .
26 I do n't know if I 'm going down with a cold or something .
27 I 'm going out for a while .
28 I 'm going out for a minute anyway , .
29 ‘ I 'm going out for a bit . ’
30 She said , ‘ I 'm going out for a bit to see Dickie . ’
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