Example sentences of "[noun sg] be go [adv] and [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I left the sack of heads and bodies in the Bunker just as the light was going completely and the stars were starting to come out . |
2 | Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels . |
3 | The sun was going down and the sky had declined into green-gold before the bird was tolerably roasted . |
4 | When I get there — the whole place is going up and the farmer 's in his pyjamas trying to save the rick . |
5 | A considerable learning process is going on and the outcome — democracy , authoritarianism or prolonged instability — is uncertain ( Sakwa , 1990 , pp. 159–69 ; Smith , 1992 , pp. 129–45 ) . |
6 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |