Example sentences of "[verb] going [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Chairman will make sure that it stays going in that direction and everybody works together rather than against each other so you got a high score there you know and as we saw in the you might not think you 've got those Chairman 's skills but then what you did in the group where you were quite a central part of what was going on perhaps indicates that these can be developed . |
| 32 | And it just goes on keeps going on another night another nightmare and then back to the interview room again and the tape machine again and more questions about Stromefirry-nofirry and Jersey and flights and that 's when they tell me about the other one that 's when they say oh by the way your best friend Andy is dead blown up in the hotel when it burned down ; probably beaten to death first head stoved in but of course you probably know all that because you did that too , did n't you ? |
| 33 | I mean , she keeps going through that phase . |
| 34 | Then she gets in the back bedroom , we got a mirror at the back there what was took off one the dressing tables , and she sits and looks at herself in there and she keeps going like that |
| 35 | I know he keeps going like this with it , he keeps going |
| 36 | ‘ Because I like going to different countries . |
| 37 | Well I , I just thought perhaps erm , you know , if there was any erm sort of up-front to this idea of you know going through some sort of dialectical model career towards socialism . |
| 38 | That is partly why I enjoyed going to different writers ’ groups . |
| 39 | She was such a marvellous mother , slogged all her life for us and she just dreaded going into one of those homes . |
| 40 | We wondered during the fifth week how Alan was going to manage to keep going for another four weeks . |
| 41 | Certainly in many difficult and anxiety-provoking situations carers continue to keep going without much regular social work intervention , provided that those doing the daily caring know that a swift and understanding response will be available if required . |
| 42 | ‘ No one … ’ began Sally-Anne passionately , thinking of all that she had seen since arriving in Vetch Street — the poor creatures in Dr Neil 's surgery , and the even poorer ones who could not afford to go there — and of Dr Neil 's own selflessness letting people off their bills , so that only the small income he still received from an aunt 's legacy allowed him to keep going at all , when he could have been revelling with Stair . |
| 43 | Central Office was able to keep going at full capacity through 1915 and 1916 , but here again there was a falling off in 1917 . |
| 44 | And like a magician he 's conjured up the spirit to keep going after horrific abuse . |
| 45 | to keep going like that ? |
| 46 | It was about then [ three years ago ] that I started going with some of my mates like Kevin(10) and Eddie(6) … and Eddie and me we got into a lot of fights and that … and the fucking coppers — they always grab either him or me when there 's any bother or that . |
| 47 | Luke started going to all his shows . |
| 48 | He whispered ‘ bollocks ’ under his breath and started going to another church . |
| 49 | ‘ When I first started going to open-cast sites I was unusual and it was pretty well guaranteed to stop operations in their tracks . ’ |
| 50 | Occasionally some of the other ranks could be seen driving old Chevvies ( they brought their own cars with them rather than risk going to local garages ) with number plates proclaiming their owners to be from the Potato or Sunshine States or , ironically , from the Land of the Free . |
| 51 | Yes , I mean I 've got to say that , I thought they kept going at two nothing down you know sides , and I 've played in games where you 're playing top opposition and you can go under a little bit ca n't you ? |
| 52 | The ships then set out to return to base at speed of 10km/h. at 8 p.m. the cutter increased speed to 20 km/h while the launch kept going at 10 km/h . |
| 53 | The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas . |
| 54 | We 're having good fun , they kept going with big spaces and could n't get them up . |
| 55 | ‘ But you kept going to these Anglo-Catholic geezers ? ’ |
| 56 | comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? , |
| 57 | It does not mean going without certain pleasures in life like so many people do , for example , in Lent . |
| 58 | Keep going through this motion twenty-one times . |
| 59 | Doing sixty miles every hour , and I keep going for ten hours . |
| 60 | and then keep going to that really big band of traffic lights and it 's Sutton Way . |