Example sentences of "of going [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he puffed the cigar to life , he shook his head , a man weary of going over the same ground again . |
| 2 | Speaking from NatWest 's experience of the DTI report on its role in Blue Arrow 's rights issue , Lord Alexander said : ‘ I find it a simply awful process that people of 40 years ’ experience should have to resign on the basis of judgments in the report without having the opportunity of going through the regulatory process that you in Parliament provided . ’ |
| 3 | The ‘ stick ’ of going to a rival company who would use the publicity can act as another pressure . |
| 4 | Like tonight , faced with the ordeal of going to a grand dinner party with people who all knew each other and were far removed from her experience , she had acquitted herself proudly and well . |
| 5 | Is there any possibility of going to a separate system and using er non potable water for all these other activities which must take up about seventy five or eighty percent of the quantities ? |
| 6 | But what is the meaning of this apparently nonsensical ritual of going to a running stream at midnight at the time of a full moon ? |
| 7 | But equally you can create suspense out of going to the very edge . |
| 8 | On Saturday the pupils could enjoy the austere pleasures of going into the small granite town of Elgin , something Richard did not enjoy but decided to do because his injured feet ruled out most alternatives . |
| 9 | It 's a bit like that with me , except that instead of going into the technological future I had to go back in time . |
| 10 | I 'm sure you 'll agree it 's a matter of going into the right stock at the right time . |
| 11 | Instead of going into the green room , we went to the girls ' dressing room . |
| 12 | Yeah we 'll restrict it instead of going into the full year |
| 13 | Hitler 's war deprived Wooderson of going into the Olympic arena in Helsinki in 1940 as a hot favourite for the 1500 metres ; Budd 's natural progression was hindered by her country 's policy of apartheid . |
| 14 | For those of us who work at the power stations , the idea of going on a guided tour may seem daft . |
| 15 | His decision to take a year off from international rugby has left selectors with the difficult choice of going for a short-term replacement or of opting for long-term continuity . |
| 16 | Spurs play their possesion futba which looks good but is not at all dangerous — when they had chances for breaks they just kept passing the ball instead of going for the fast break . |
| 17 | They will take initiative for the sake of ‘ the poor and needy strangers ’ , namely those outside the church who have no intention of going near the institutional church . |
| 18 | It may be at a , at a truly rational level we can all perfectly well do all kinds of other things rationally on a truly rational level , because there we have this this er high degree of that comes with rationality , but at a deeper , kind of gut level , the emotional feelings we , we find that it 's , it 's much more difficult , and at that point if you do n't try and change things and do things that are unnatural , you find you 're kind of going against the emotional grain and er perhaps some people find it easier than others , but perhaps everybody will feel a certain erm tug as it were , certain erm discomfort or a certain emotional alienation from themselves which er perhaps is because we 're trying to do something more basic we just were n't designed for . |