Example sentences of "be going in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ We 're going in the right direction but I do n't know where the piste has got to . ’ |
2 | I do n't think the vicarage can be here — Dorothy , are you sure we 're going in the right direction ? ’ |
3 | It is different from country to country , and I sometimes feel I mean I 'm not sure whether I 'm being unfair to our industry here , but it does seem to me that perhaps we have n't quite got our act together yet , we 're going in the right direction , but we have n't quite got there . |
4 | And then they take their jackets off and rush down the road at five thousand miles an hour and when you say to them , but you 're going in the wrong direction . |
5 | Two cars are drawing up outside Number 17 and quite a lot of people are going in the front door . |
6 | I think this is why they ca n't sell cos they keep building on and people are going in the newer ones and not buying the ones that are lived in . |
7 | We have some new industries , I B M for example , but I B M are shedding labour at a very fast rate , something like seven hundred people are going in the next year , so we have our problems in Portsmouth . |
8 | ‘ Should you see a lady that you know , carrying a basket , and you are going in the same direction , offer to carry it for her . ’ |
9 | But you can spare very much trouble because there are times when you can say to someone , ‘ At this point , you are going in the wrong direction . ’ |
10 | Eh , I 'm going in the other room . |
11 | However , the trend appears to be going in the reverse direction . |
12 | I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding . |
13 | At a time when household formation rates suggest we should be going in the opposite direction , simply to stand still . |
14 | And they were going in the next morning , oh they 'd phoned up they 'd cancelled . |
15 | Secondly , I wish to see our participation at Maastricht emphasising and improving those matters on which the Community is going in the right direction . |
16 | ‘ I 'm getting a case together and it 's going in the right direction . |
17 | It 's going in the right direction . |
18 | But I think it 's going in the right direction , that in , in a sense what is not wanted is , is facts to , to cluster the , the , the memory but erm imaginative qualities to kindle the , the intellectual spirit 's curiosity that we really want to awaken . |
19 | Now those are arteries , that 's the pulmonary artery but it 's coming back to the heart okay , that 's the only time you 're going to find the rule reversed , arteries leave the heart , veins come back to the heart , and the only time that rule is reversed is when you 're linking the heart and the lungs through the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery , however , they are still carrying , the arteries are still carrying oxygen charged blood , yes , because it 's come fresh from the lungs so it 's still carrying nice red lovely oxygenated blood , yes , even though it 's coming back into the heart , that is because it 's come fresh from the lungs and the vein although it 's going in the opposite direction the way you normally expect it , is still carrying the old rotten , you know , used up blood , because it 's going back to the lungs to be recharged , do you understand it alright ? |
20 | ‘ We all want F1 to be successful but it 's going in the wrong direction . ’ |
21 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
22 | He was going in the same direction , empty . |
23 | He was walking very rapidly , far faster than Shiva was going in the opposite direction , from a building with long windows and white-uniformed men and girls behind them that looked like a lab , towards the main block . |
24 | In Philadelphia , Thom Bell was going in the opposite direction , enveloping a romantic vocal group called the Delfonics in a jacuzzi of French horns , flugelhorns , flutes , strings , harps , tinkerbell glockenspiels and even Indian sitars . |
25 | She was going in the opposite direction this time . |