Example sentences of "[prep] be going [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life has to be going on on both sides of it , I told her . |
| 2 | All this may seem quite enough to be going on with for ordinary mortals , but , amazingly , Muddle informs us ‘ Southwell is just a guinea-pig for Telford ’ . |
| 3 | A badly-planned script , by contrast , necessarily leads to a badly-organized film , and the only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because so much seems to be going on during the shooting stage — money is spent , crowds of extras run in front of the cameras , tempers become heated and everybody becomes very tired — that the person trying to control this chaos appears to the casual observer as the only significant creative force . |
| 4 | The stories read as distillations of the life or experience of ordinary people ( working people , lower-middle-class and also the ‘ emarginated ’ , the young , the unemployed , the old ) plucked from a grey background where nothing appears to be going on . |
| 5 | Of course , the appropriate behaviour here depends on what is likely to be going on when no set of bindings seems plausible to the reasoner . |
| 6 | She is very brave , which is plenty to be going on with . |
| 7 | Nobody knew what was meant to be going on . |
| 8 | Not problems like young Michael 's , but I 've enough to be going on with . |
| 9 | From his own observations , and such scanty and often mendacious published sources as exist , he pieces together accounts of what seemed to be going on . |
| 10 | We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive . |
| 11 | Rostov stood awkwardly , aware that Hodai and Jenjin were carefully ignoring the reunion which appeared to be going on . |
| 12 | Instead of which it seems to be going on and on and I 'm finding myself going round playing at stupid amateur detectives . |
| 13 | Wycliffe said : ‘ It 's enough to be going on with . |
| 14 | but you do n't know just how long it 's going to be going on . |
| 15 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 16 | It had a competition sponsored by McCartney to find a script for a movie , a declaration by Harry Fainlight about the ( still legal ) pleasures of LSD , it had letters , and , specifically , it had a long epistle from John Wilcock in New York , defining what was supposed to be going on . |
| 17 | She took out her wallet and found that she had six pounds and ten shillings which she placed on the chair by his bed ; ‘ Will that be enough to be going on with ? ’ she asked . |
| 18 | It 's quite enough to be going on with . ’ |
| 19 | A goal at that stage , midway through the second half would certainly have ended all the arguments , but Dowie 's opener was enough to be going on with . |
| 20 | I know I should n't , but I 'm just going to pop forwards half an hour and see what 's going to be going on . |
| 21 | I was gon na say as I recollect I did n't see much wrong with it that I would disagree with erm I think it 's nice to see , you know , sort of progress seems to be going on and erm er what I would say is sort of it might be a good idea to sort of line the numbers up a bit more but erm |
| 22 | Here are a few names to be going on with … fancy any of these … |
| 23 | Here are a few names to be going on with … fancy any of these … |
| 24 | not really want it , a a couple of sandwiches or something , to be going on |
| 25 | You do n't have a coffee to be going on ? |
| 26 | Do n't all look at me , you 're supposed to be going on talking ! |
| 27 | they seem to be going on and on and on |
| 28 | Have I given you something to be going on with ? |
| 29 | So that erm perhaps puts erm some of sexuality in a little bit of a historical context erm and um I suppose coming into the nineteenth century though , nineteenth century , particularly the second half of the nineteenth century , in large cities it was notorious for child prostitution for um a whole rate of exploitative sexual practices that underlay Victorian respectability so erm all these um peculiar kinds of things seemed to be going on . |
| 30 | You all seemed to be going over pretty smoothly . ’ |