Example sentences of "[noun] going [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We saw on Monday , factory gate prices going up less than people expected , today , prices in the shops going up less than people expected . |
| 2 | The Abyssinians could claim an uninterrupted succession going back more than two thousand years ; in Africa , only Egypt had a more ancient civilization . |
| 3 | We begin with Belbo phoning from Paris to say , ‘ They 're after me , ’ and the telephone going dead just as he is about to give the password for the computer file which holds the final explanation known to him alone . |
| 4 | A police investigation at a school for disturbed children has been stepped up after claims of abuse going back more than twenty years . |
| 5 | And all this has happened with costs going down rather than up . |
| 6 | more cunning stuff going on here as well . |
| 7 | Some favour legislation , Steve Scrutton going so far as to argue that the general term ‘ age ’ should never be used in legislation as a shorthand term to denote frailty or dependence . |
| 8 | You could n't picture orgies going on there because it was so sedate and respectable . |
| 9 | The threat was enough to stop Rita and Bob going as far as their friends with real rude words . |
| 10 | We saw on Monday , factory gate prices going up less than people expected , today , prices in the shops going up less than people expected . |
| 11 | Why do they have the numbers going round anticlockwise as well ? |
| 12 | As Carol Dyhouse has pointed out , in concentrating their attention on mothercraft , medical experts tended to devalue women 's knowledge regarding infant care , one doctor going so far as to label grandmothers as ‘ infanticide experts ’ . |
| 13 | I worked at as a nurse and there 's , actually there 's a lot of pressure going on there as will back up . |
| 14 | — as soon as you are drilling basic questions , use them to keep a given conversation item going as long as possible . |
| 15 | Although parts of Sun , such as Sun Federal , have reportedly been flirting with IXI , Sun headquarters has clearly labelled the firm a competitor going so far as to put a last-minute kibosh on a real estate deal that would have moved IXI headquarters in Cambridge , England into Sun UK 's offices as a tenant . |
| 16 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 17 | This has usually been rejected , on the grounds that other sources suggest that Hastings was executed rather than murdered-Armstrong going so far as to suggest that such a murder would be un-English and that Mancini has been led astray by Italian precedents . |
| 18 | The well-established agricultural divisions of the county were reinforced by medieval practices , but perhaps the greatest contribution to Sussex life was the extension of settlement much deeper into the Weald , the piecemeal annual clearings going much farther than before . |