Example sentences of "going [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 2 | Miss Huntley claimed to have spent the Saturday by herself in and around her flat , doing a bit of shopping and cleaning before meeting a few friends — only one of whom appeared to have an address — and going on to a party around ten o'clock at night . |
| 3 | Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 . |
| 4 | 3 The children 's parents tell their version of the story , starting at the moment when they see the stains on Lollo 's gear , and going on to the point where they realise they ( or their children ) have discovered super penicillin . |
| 5 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 6 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 7 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 8 | Sara went to the top of the spiral staircase and crouched , listening to the argument going on on the floor below . |
| 9 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 10 | Tractor development is n't just going on in the west either . |
| 11 | When we held our first University reunion outside Birmingham , in London , I was delighted that more than 200 of you came along to hear what is going on in the University now . |
| 12 | That does n't mean you disregard adult commitments and disregard that there is some really shitty stuff going on in the world right now . |
| 13 | But it can hardly be argued that either carbonate or coal measure deposition is going on around the world today in anything like the way it has in the past . |
| 14 | And that I mean is one of the major criticisms against a functional approach , that sometimes you need to know what 's going on inside the box fully to be able to fully appreciate the behaviour anyway . |
| 15 | I 've seen her going along to the library regularly , pretty well every night . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's a small window in the second room with a large pipe going down into the moat outside , ’ he went on . |
| 17 | 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 — ’ |
| 18 | I 'm going down to the shop later , so I 'll make an appointment for you . ’ |
| 19 | There were hundreds of ropes going down to the stage below — it was a long , long way down . |
| 20 | The sky now suddenly seemed clear except for a CR 42 going down in a spin ahead of me . |
| 21 | I think the army thought they were going in to a situation where they could they could help , they saw themselves if you like as the referees er as a neutral party in between two sides . |
| 22 | Cos we 're only going away for a weekend then are n't we ? |
| 23 | On the other hand , if the rocket has more than a certain critical speed ( about seven miles per second ) gravity will not be strong enough to pull it back , so it will keep going away from the earth forever . |
| 24 | Portsmouth , needing only a draw , made certain of going through with a second just before the interval . |
| 25 | I think very good at going through with a toothcomb anyway and I 'm sure that she could quite adequately . |
| 26 | The national press and media were travelling on the plane with Mrs Thatcher , but the local photographers and journalists were going directly to the airport ahead of time . |
| 27 | Cows are going home in the lane there , looping the hedges with their warm wreaths of breath — |
| 28 | Oh no , look buns are going off on the floor everywhere ! |
| 29 | Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 . |
| 30 | They would be going off in the boat together because that is what they always did in the mornings , to return in half an hour . |