Example sentences of "[noun] going [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason that you use hot air is to keep that combustion going at a good temperature . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's tough on a horse going to a new home , especially a stallion ’ , his new owner said . |
| 3 | ‘ The wood going into a 40 gallon barrel , it 's been about a hundredweight of wood . |
| 4 | In the first round of voting 19 of the 28 seats were decided , with the remainder going to a second round ; 82 per cent of the 8,592-strong electorate went to the polls ( most of Andorra 's population of 60,000 being foreigners and not entitled to vote ) . |
| 5 | These er , these mi might be the same , but you ca n't expect to have to stop sound going through a four and a half inch wall can you ? |
| 6 | However , it is still difficult to imagine the slim person going for a real blow-out , or having dinner , going to the pub , then calling into an Indian Restaurant for a further meal before going home . |
| 7 | At home they had behaved as if she were a toddler going to a first party in a party frock rather than a huge ungainly student eighteen years of age going to university dressed from head to toe in dark clothes . |
| 8 | He could have used exports to get the economy going with a substantial reduction in the exchange rate and greater devaluation . |
| 9 | Enough to curve it right back on itself so an astronaut going in a straight line would land back where he started ? ’ |
| 10 | Brian Keighley sees the game going in a different direction . |
| 11 | People going with a few items from their attic . |
| 12 | It 's no use going on a six day trail ride , with six hours daily in the saddle , if all you want is some gentle hacking in a scenic setting , with perhaps a few longer pub rides as an added bonus . |
| 13 | Uplands kept its wholesaling operation going for a few years after I left , but it does n't exist any more ; I think the day of the really small wholesaler is gone . ’ |
| 14 | Well there 's a thing going round a few years ago were n't there with these models , just pay for them to go out there |
| 15 | And if you work on that presumption , and I 'm not suggesting you creep around frightened of your own shadow going at a slow speed , just wor working with deliberation and making sure you move through the situation competently , but do n't take anything for granted . |
| 16 | To date chief executive Papows has managed to stop Cognos going into a terminal decline , but has yet to prove that he can lead the company into a higher growth pattern . |
| 17 | It would have been busy with pupils going to a nearby school and parents dropping them off . |
| 18 | The Greek Telecommunications Organisation , OTE , is expected to show a record $700m pre-tax profit this year compared to $400m in 1992 , Reuter reports from Athens : ‘ It will be a record profit allowing us to invest heavily in the modernisation of Greek telecommunications , ’ a government official said , adding that things would improve even more with OTE 's partial privatisation — the government has said it will sell 49% of OTE this year with 35% going to a foreign phone company ; it plans to invest about $1,000m in 1993 which will include 350,000 new digital lines , the transfer of 220,000 existing lines , many new digital centres and digging up 2,800 miles of trenches for cables . |
| 19 | Instead of their electrifying wah wah guitar and frantic vocals it was simply the sound of a classic powerpop trio going through a pure , well-cut pop song . |
| 20 | Instead of their electrifying wah wah guitar and frantic vocals it was simply the sound of a classic powerpop trio going through a pure , well-cut pop song . |
| 21 | They set off together in the small car , Rose 's girlish smiles and waves only accentuating the picture of the happy couple going on a whole day 's outing alone together . |
| 22 | Instead of each chromosome in that pair going into a separate egg , they both go into the same one , so that when the egg is fertilised , the triple chromosome is created . |
| 23 | When they had eaten their meal of wheat ro is and milk they kept the fire going for a long time . |
| 24 | We spent some time going through a whole heap of magazines with a girl from the Costume Department , picking out a design here and there and saying , ‘ Yes , that sort of thing would be a good idea for her , would n't it ? ’ |
| 25 | Young Mr Nilsen is in fact going for a 14-day trial at Sheff Utd right after Norway 's match tomorrow . |
| 26 | Bags of kohlrabi and okra , sweet potatoes , chillies , Chinese-leaf lettuce and three pounds of a very peculiar thing called an edenwort , which looked like a beetroot going through a severe identity crisis . |
| 27 | We might argue , for example , that promoting a father from the most menial labouring job to a semi-skilled factory job is still unlikely to lead to his son going to a selective school , since so few working class children go . |