Example sentences of "[noun] going [adv prt] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pretended not to see the light in his eyes ; she pretended it was the wind going up her skirt that made her suddenly shiver with apprehension . |
| 2 | Frozen as she was , Ruth felt a shudder going down her spine . |
| 3 | Mam would n't say anything because she did n't want to throw it in his face that it was her money going down his throat . |
| 4 | And the dog going down his leg . |
| 5 | It would n't have stopped the rope going round their necks ! ’ |
| 6 | Willie watches his brother close his eyes on the tawny liquid going down his throat , showing a strangely poignant mixture of contempt and envy . |
| 7 | " I 'm with child , " she whispered , and faced them , tears going down her cheeks . |
| 8 | Her head was covered in a white coif with a white shawl shaped in the form of a triangle going down her back like a liripipe . |
| 9 | There was some sort of monitor with dials which I could n't make head nor tail of , two drip stands with tubes — one lot going up her nose , the other into her arm — and her right leg was coated in plaster and suspended in mid air by a pulley contraption on which the Spanish Inquisition probably held the patent . |
| 10 | She felt a tingle going down her spine that could have been romance or could just as well have been the drink . |