Example sentences of "[adv] going [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there enough going for the partners — both as a couple and as individuals — to allow them to relinquish their role as parents ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 've done everything I can possibly think of now , so going on the run is my protest . |
| 3 | I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm only going on the fact that I I tend to do everything on the cheap so I tend to get if I can find somebody who does photocopying I can do it then we 'll do it . |
| 4 | only going on the bus though . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're only going to the old registry office , ’ she says . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're only going to the movies . ’ |
| 7 | Now what you were doing was , you got the top figure of available beds and you this time , I 'm only going for the this paper that is shown to me a an an an and produced some place in in your apartments and it says here , partly vacancies weekend in the first of August . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course I will , Mother , I 'm only going up the road , I 'll come back at weekends . ’ |
| 9 | We tried to reassure him that this was n't the case , that newspeople were merely going for the stories with the biggest hook . |
| 10 | Mechanically going through the motions , repeating his words , hardly aware of the small Monday night audience , hardly aware of the new girl hesitantly feeding him Lesley-Jane 's lines , he was in an agony of apprehension throughout the performance . |
| 11 | rushing round inside of the literally going round the worlds and then down and then . |
| 12 | His mother was in , seated at her kitchen desk and gloomily going over the month 's bills — her Persian lamb coat made the Hudson 's Bay bill look enormous , and , at the rate she was paying it off , it would take until next Easter to clear it . |
| 13 | Yorkshire Television is apparently going into the new franchise with not a woman in its top rank . |
| 14 | ‘ The risk of drinkers inadvertently going over the limit is tragically high , ’ the report says . |
| 15 | If that 's what you 're looking for , Yeah well that 's obviously going with the flats going . |
| 16 | A sort of cat and mouse game followed , especially going up the long hill , but we eventually settled on a dead heat . |
| 17 | When people have taken too much drink it can make some strange situations , especially going into the locks |
| 18 | For a while , my route flirted with the border and after some easy going across the Severn Valley , I took to the hills again , following a roman road over Long Mountain . |
| 19 | Petty officer Dave Cockeram , who is in charge of the engines , said the crew averaging 50 men was easy going from the captain down , but definitely not laid back . |
| 20 | On the other hand , the sum may be out by several thousands without the mistake being detectable except by laboriously going over the addition step by step . |
| 21 | I 'm just going for a piss now I 'm not fucking going to the toilet . |
| 22 | yes , it 's already going to the top of the charts to be number one for Christmas all the other Christmas songs are |
| 23 | If the request were to be included in a foreign aid appropriations bill already going through the Senate , it could secure approval by Sept. 30 ( the end of the 1991 fiscal year ) . |
| 24 | As I approach his car , Eddie was already going through the appointments for the day , studying customer record cards on which each call is recorded . |
| 25 | The mountainous terrain could make it slow going for the ground rescue teams . |
| 26 | In his words , he ‘ sold ’ himself to the Norwich City Football Club , persistently going to the training ground when aged 14 and 15 , until the club offered him an apprentice 's contract . |
| 27 | I think they were just going through the motions of what had worked before . |
| 28 | We go to work , eat , sleep , get married , have children , get divorced , always just going through the motions without being involved , without sparkle , without real enjoyment or genuine pain . |
| 29 | She tells me that ‘ the mother is just going through the process of grieving for the child she has n't had ’ ( the child is already eight months old ) : the health visitor 's instruction in the art of creating unpersons has been exemplary , and no doubt she is keen to pass this on to the mother . |
| 30 | Because if you if you if that 's all it is then you 're just going through the motions , you 're not actually going ahead and receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation . |