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

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1 er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made .
2 It is more difficult to prevent the river going round in a loop and joining itself .
3 Well , seem funny a boxer going around with a tail wo n't it ?
4 New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe .
5 And er a gent used to have er a gentleman going round with a great long stick .
6 You ca n't wear gloves — there is no grip … there is so much dust around the grinding machines — one of them caught fire five times during the past three months … then there is a fellow going around with a bottle of water .
7 There 's a garden going down to a stream .
8 There 's a lot going on at a very fast speed .
9 Sometimes , she would stare at them as they were talking and they would grow smaller and smaller , like a genie going back into a lamp .
10 As it goes r you 've heard something sort of er say an ashtray going round on a hard surface .
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