Example sentences of "[conj] going [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Becoming pregnant or going ahead with a pregnancy has to be a personal choice for each individual HIV positive woman . |
| 2 | Such untimely celebrity death provides our nice clean ending and saves us having to contend with the natural processes of ageing and decay , for some reason considered more horrific and obscene than going out with a bang . |
| 3 | Then do various things , like putting your hands in the air , jumping up and down and going round in a circle , until eventually you go back in line . |
| 4 | After eating a full breakfast , he performed his awesome feat of batting before , in the evening , taking part in a doubles tennis match , visiting the theatre and going on to a supper party ! |
| 5 | Miss Huntley claimed to have spent the Saturday by herself in and around her flat , doing a bit of shopping and cleaning before meeting a few friends — only one of whom appeared to have an address — and going on to a party around ten o'clock at night . |
| 6 | It 's exciting ; going back together and going back to a country which hopefully is changing . |
| 7 | ‘ Sunset in the Mediterranean way with fire and passion and going out in a blaze of glory , ’ he teased , grabbing at a blanket from the back of one of the wicker chairs on the terrace . |
| 8 | ‘ Followed by making love with fire and passion and going out in a blaze of glory — anywhere ! ’ he added with a laugh of pure cynicism . |
| 9 | If going along to a group on a regular basis helps you to stick at it — do it . |
| 10 | Briefly summarised , these are first , that photosynthesis may be ‘ switched ’ on and off reversibly : and second , that its behaviour is highly modular in that the complex series of reactions that make up photosynthesis can be reviewed as going on inside a number of ‘ boxes ’ , each fairly distinct and separable from each other — the light-harvesting mechanisms , the conversion of the light energy to ATP , the use of ATP to make carbohydrates and so on . |
| 11 | When the name of a group of fishes is mentioned as going out for a swim all the members walk around the monsters in a circle . |
| 12 | Apart from an uncharacteristic first fence fall at Ascot on his third start , the only other time he was beaten was when going down by a half length to Minnehoma in the Sun Alliance Chasethe novices Gold Cup . |
| 13 | I normally make a note of the palette number and list the yarn names , along with the manufacturers ' colour names or numbers for each of the eight colours , in a book and find this is a great help when going back to a palette later , or when looking for a palette containing certain yarn colours . |