Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb base] going [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 erm when you that you intend going back to plant the seed , how have you found today 's been ? some benefit etcetera etcetera etcetera and .
2 I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes .
3 Pop and I remember going up to the captain 's cabin after you had gone to bed and eating lovely bala chaung sandwiches .
4 Sweets were produced and I remember going around with a bandaged head for a day or so .
5 It was my turn to go to the bank for the wages and I remember going back to the shop saying King George VI had died .
6 I believe we should not only be looking at simple traffic calming , I believe we should be looking at er greater use of subsidised school transport and in fact transport called for a report and I gather going on right out .
7 I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made .
8 You tend to recognise particularly in that area of other people 's responses , and you keep going on , you 're bulldozing , are n't you .
9 If you keep going on like this , right ready let's run over the B M W !
10 It looks like you know what you 're talking about , does n't mean you do but i I mean if you use th if you if you start going on about that thing that there is er when some what on earth ?
11 Cos you keep going on about it .
12 Cos you keep going round !
13 Time dulls the memory , though , and we keep going back for more .
14 So if we start going on about transport they 're going to rub that into us that we 've got owt .
15 Course she 's worried , cos like she smokes a lot and she 's say what thirty and that 's her first , and they keep going on to her all the time like , I said well do n't worry about it , you know .
16 I can count the number of trout that I have taken from this lovely loch on the fingers of one hand and blank days are the rule , but I keep going back for more .
17 Well I do n't but I enjoy going out
18 They just do n't know how they 're surviving but they keep going on !
19 And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs
20 ‘ The goals I scored for Charlton and Wednesday were basically created by other players but I think it 's just a matter of time before they start going in again and it should help my game when Geoff Thomas is fit , ’ he added .
21 But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt .
22 I stopped , puffed — you puff as much going down steep hills as you do going up , and your thighs hurt .
23 They go mad when we start going on about JFK .
24 Females often produce it as a contact call for their cubs , particularly when they start going out on rambles together for the first time .
25 • Many poisons cause as much damage coming back up as they do going down , so do not make him vomit unless you are sure it is safe to do so .
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