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

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1 ‘ Though I 've got to tell you there 's some gossip going around about the cousin you 've got staying . ’
2 Could you say a little bit more about the research going on in the Education Area ?
3 Lord Vansittart , a former Foreign Office official , had written a pamphlet entitled Black Record blaming the Germans for a record of barbarism going back to the era of the Roman Empire .
4 Perhaps yeah I think you must have been airborne at that stage to be er , had such a enormous flame going up into the balloon .
5 Or what we could do , well , what I mean is , maybe would n't do any harm going down to the pub tonight to see if the others are there , only a quick drink mind , we ca n't be sure what they 're like yet — ’
6 Surely not all that protein synthesis going on in the absence of the inhibitor could be about learning and memory ; some other fundamental aspects of behaviour must be affected ?
7 And I genuinely would say , that I actually think the amount of international and European work going on within the organisation as a whole , is now greater than it was before .
8 Clearly it is easier for a minister to accept this sort of legislation than to develop a policy that effectively changes the direction of a great deal of work going on within the department .
9 The publication of the Government 's Green Paper , health of the nation and all the work going on around the country , on the implementation programme for the community care reforms , means that N C V O must attempt to rebuild its own capacity , to undertake effective policy development work in these areas .
10 ‘ I know from other work going on in the south of Shetland that 10 per cent of the residents there remain concerned about the possibility of major long-term health effects , ’ he said .
11 He 's got to fulfil all three roles , and the more managerial work going on in the office , the harder it is to find the time to do the work for the clients , which is what produces the fees .
12 There are , of course , several American dreams : one is the John Wayne tradition of the cowboy going out to the west and the whole notion of pioneering individualism ; another is the immigrant American dream , this being the land of opportunity where the streets are made of gold .
13 In a separation section , the sludge is discharged , the clean sand going back into the system , so that the process of filtration is continuous and the " filter " is self-cleaning .
14 Or it could be the boy going down through the field and scaring them .
15 Meanwhile there 's nothing mystical about the version of Sumo wrestling going on in the city centre .
16 Some of the children were screaming as they watched the tussle going on between the nun and the girl whom they secretly admired and envied because she was n't afraid of the dreaded Sister Mary .
17 There 's a lot of change going on in the game at the moment , which is always a healthy sign .
18 On the other hand , if the class struggle going on inside the state originates at the economic sphere , then surely there is no separation of the economic and the political — ideological levels at all ?
19 If you go on holiday for a month , you want another pay cheque going in at the end of the month .
20 Yeah , music we 've normally got some noise going on in the background .
21 The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet !
22 If she had thought of it , she would have looked before : she had registered the reporter and photographer going up to the flat above , and had said to herself that they did n't , very obviously , have the class of the young men from the London Sundays .
23 There was a conference going on in the kitchen .
24 The ILEA covered the area of the former LCC and thus ensured a continuity going back to the establishment of the London School Board in 1870 ( Maclure 1988 : 110 — 11 ) .
25 Scientists at Los Alamos have suggested using particle beams to help burn up the plutonium , rather than relying entirely on particles given off by a chain reaction going on within the material ; they think it would be like holding a flame underneath the plutonium , rather than starting a dangerous plutonium blaze .
26 What with the doctor going straight out and the deceased going down to the kitchen to thank both staff for a very good meal there was n't time — even if she took it herself , which is unlikely from all I hear . ’
27 There was an open war going on between the child and the nun , and the class was aware of it and daily seemed to await events .
28 The cash into the authority , the timing of that , and the ti the timing of cash going out of the authority .
29 But I have seen a coke stove , cast iron coke stove on a chimney going up to the ceiling in the dark absolutely glowing bright , bright , red .
30 There was a brawl going on in the entrance , and two policemen were clamping handcuffs on a couple of young men who were causing the trouble .
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