Example sentences of "[pron] going [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
2 | ‘ Since I left , there has been talk about my going back to Celtic , but that will never happen . ’ |
3 | But he was evidently even less happy than Dottie about my going back to what he referred to with thinly veiled distaste as " that place " . |
4 | The whole point is what am I going on to , I 'm going for free are n't I ? |
5 | I going round for a collection too . |
6 | No way was I going back to that house . |
7 | Ai n't I going back up London then ? ’ |
8 | No way was I going out with a Famlio ship in my flight path . |
9 | ‘ There was plenty of flak over the target area , and I kept looking at my useless chute , yet at the same time it was treated as a huge joke by us all , with the rest of the crew saying that no way was I going down with any of them if need be ! |
10 | someone going on about how they think you should understand it . |
11 | As far as chartered accountant trainees are concerned , Mr Jones argues , ‘ you have all the aggravation of training them on high salaries and the disruption to a small office with their going off for long periods of study leave , and at the end you do n't keep them . |
12 | It was rather pathetic sometimes because he was upset at somebody going down on a discipline charge and getting the sack . |
13 | ‘ It 's a big place and she sometimes sees the prince but there 's certainly nothing going on between them . ’ |
14 | There was nothing going on in the centre of . |
15 | And he said something which even annoyed them more , which is something like there is nothing going on in Oxford before eleven that I 'm interested in doing . |
16 | Larkin , in his poem , had paused at the door of a village church to make sure there was nothing going on before modestly venturing in as a tourist . |
17 | No , the , the , the extension of them going up for the cup and all , that 's what it was . |
18 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |
19 | He says we see them going up in the air , they do these tight manoevres . |
20 | Those people with dogs in that sort of situation are very welcome to walk through the playing field and then out the other side and away , I would n't stop them going over from that entrance to the to the top entrance . |
21 | She 'd be sent to her room and hear them going on about how if it was n't for The Child — her — everything would be different and it would have ended years ago . |
22 | Kāli and her cousin , Jit , were at the far end of the roof waving their arms , keeping the sheep contained at one end only , stopping them going back down the steps at the other side . |
23 | so , erm , they rang and they rang , and they rang for a good twenty to twenty five minutes and we just erm , we , we all huddled together in the living room , and erm , anyway about half an hour went past , and then they finally went , we saw them , we live in a flat , and we saw them from the window , we saw them going back to the station you see . |
24 | It seemed a pity to see them going out of business . ’ |
25 | Nicandra could n't watch them going out of the room together . |
26 | Maidstone 's chairman and managing director Jim Thompson announced last week the Fourth Division club would have to close unless a buyer stepped in to save them going out of business . |
27 | Er and I always used to think it must be extremely , they 'd hear them going out at night and you know then count the planes coming back . |
28 | Cos I 've see them , seen them going in on Sunday . |
29 | it 's got me going up to Alex saying er er no one wants to do it with me and he 's going look I 'll sleep with you man so I 'm going |
30 | I I 'm I say you must excuse me going on at such a pace but I 've got A I 've got another meeting quite shortly and B you 've got some little mo I think M Michael 's looking to take over . |