Example sentences of "[noun] going [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road . |
2 | Our most controversial cover last year showed a photograph of a red car going around a Swiss hairpin , with the headline ‘ Ford 's new Escort meets its rivals ’ , and then , underlined in red , ‘ … and loses ’ . |
3 | A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ . |
4 | So if you put a big heavy engine going down a cast iron railway which wo n't |
5 | It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit . |
6 | Yeah well the thing is that something 's got ta shift because we 've got we 've got all these bloody flights going out the same time |
7 | There 's a crush over by the door in one of the rooms , with flashbulbs going off every few seconds , but it 's impossible to get near enough to see . |
8 | Then there 's er the door the door at forty feet and there 's er a gunmetal ladder going up the forty feet you 've got to climb up to get into the door . |
9 | Mind you 're still got , still getting a lot of heat going up the old chimney are n't you ? |