Example sentences of "[conj] going [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Or going for an interview . |
2 | Pristine to the last , he would wear a tie and a suit , whether just pacing the house or going for an evening out . |
3 | He used to say that nothing could be more ludicrous than going to a football match and then reading somebody else 's account of what you had already seen . |
4 | I take on board everything that Lesley said , but I still feel in my heart that there are times when you 're dealing with people who just need to be treated almost like a child again for a while and maybe maybe it 's a good place where the legislation leaves it , better than going to a sort of situation where healthy people might get pushed into asylums or whatever , but somehow I 'm not totally happy with where we are . |
5 | All that was easy to believe now , it was easy to imagine the drunkenness , and Timothy Gedge letting the facts slip out because he did n't care , because he 'd find it enjoyable , even better than going to a funeral . |
6 | There 's nothing I hate more than going to an exhibition where there 's nobody there whom I know and there 's nothing there which I like … |
7 | I found being introduced to people individually , as they arrived , much easier than going into a room full of new babies and it was good to share experiences . |
8 | Trailing 6-3 , Cardiff won a last-chance scrum on the Swansea line and the players pressured Hall into running the ball rather than going for a drop goal which would have given them a draw . |
9 | So nothing could be more natural than going for a walk and holding hands with mum . |
10 | We climbed for an hour-and-a-half and I can tell you that going up a mountain on skins is not as easy as it looks . |
11 | He had anticipated that going to a pub would test the resolve to its limits . |
12 | ‘ You told me once that going to a Workhouse was simply exchanging one prison for another . |
13 | However , as Cusick maintained , once the audience had seen people coming and going through a stone doorway they would subconsciously assume the rest of the set to be stone as well . |
14 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
15 | Other animals avoid the difficulties of winter by reducing their metabolic rate even further and going into a state of torpor or hibernating . |
16 | The star of Antiques Roadshow and Going For A Song died in 1985 and now his widow Irene has decided to sell . |
17 | somebody carrying a and going in a house . |
18 | And when it came to moving them around , who was going to take any notice of vehicles coming and going from a hospital ? |
19 | ‘ I started my classes mainly because I got lonely sitting up in my workshop all day and because going to a class is how I started . |
20 | Then , while going through a divorce , I literally forgot about the fish ; the filter broke down and his tank became polluted as well as becoming overgrown with algae . |
21 | As is the way with people who undertake these , epics , the accident happened as a result of slipping over while going for a beer with Colin Broadway . |
22 | In some countries that 's virtually the same as going through a wedding service . |
23 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
24 | The strain of all this told , especially when he did such things as going on a submarine foray to the Bay of Biscay while the French coast was still in German hands . |
25 | When going into a supermarket to buy cabbages , onions , carrots or eggs , just give a little thought as to how these came to be on the shelves — the early planting and worrying about frosts , packing and carting to the shops . |
26 | That is why the track a particle makes when going through a bubble chamber looks almost straight . |