Example sentences of "[noun] going [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , seem funny a boxer going around with a tail wo n't it ? |
| 2 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 3 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 4 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 5 | She felt as if she were sinking deeper and deeper in her own panic , her whole consciousness going down into a quicksand while her body stood there , stupid with fear . |
| 6 | There 's an underground thing — you know , steps going down to a station , so I go down there and wander around for a bit . |
| 7 | drain like light going out of a landscape . |
| 8 | Goodey making a change for the benefit of the scheme members paying into a scheme , rather than employers going away in a contribution holiday . |
| 9 | I remember during the Tet offensive going round with a transistor radio in my ear to hear the latest news . ’ |
| 10 | David Oates going well in a new saloon car racing class . |
| 11 | Recriminations over the sound and an equivocal audience response ( some pogoed , most stared blankly on as a repeat offender dove on to dance to ‘ Motown Junk ’ ) sees the set and with the bass ricocheting off the backdrop , the drum kit going down to a repeated kicking and singer James making messy love to his gorgeous white Gibson . |
| 12 | Two thousand homes could be powered by electricity from the wind if experiments going on in a farmer 's field prove successful . |
| 13 | Rights and properties going back to a remote and undocumented past appeared to him to have a sanction which no later enactment — not even by the pope — could alter . |
| 14 | Take your own advantage of the difficult atmosphere by realizing that things can not get much worse so it is worth while going out on a limb to say what you want to say without worrying about causing a negative reaction ! |
| 15 | And er a gent used to have er a gentleman going round with a great long stick . |
| 16 | That 's despite profits going DOWN by a third to £778 million because of the hot weather . |
| 17 | Nevil Sanderson going out with a female Tory , ye Gods and little fishes ! ’ |
| 18 | Trouble from racists who objected to a white woman going out with a black man . |
| 19 | ‘ In fact I 've heard Mauleverer going on about a tripe restaurant in Paris . ’ |
| 20 | sudden change in behaviour or lifestyles , for example going around with a new set of friends |
| 21 | It is more difficult to prevent the river going round in a loop and joining itself . |
| 22 | Royal Mail secretary Sarah McKay going out on a limb for charity |
| 23 | You miss the encounter , but realize abruptly that you are a Blank Generation Kid going Nowhere on a Fast Track to Nothingness , and start spitting obscenely in deserted playgrounds . |
| 24 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 25 | These are abused young children going back to a parent and troubled adolescents returning home from residential care . |
| 26 | There 's a lot going on at a very fast speed . |
| 27 | That is to be increased and perhaps there should be an increase in the sentence for hardened criminals going out with a criminal purpose and carrying a knife . |
| 28 | You ca n't wear gloves — there is no grip … there is so much dust around the grinding machines — one of them caught fire five times during the past three months … then there is a fellow going around with a bottle of water . |
| 29 | There 's a garden going down to a stream . |
| 30 | You 're talking about er three thirty mil going out at a premium price , erm your one litre at an economy price and your two litre back at a premium price . |