Example sentences of "[be] [adv] going [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 I am happy to give my hon. Friend the assurance that we are not going down the route of a federal Europe .
2 As long as you 're not going up the village
3 You 're na you 're not going down the pit ?
4 I said No , no-one at home was , Everyone at home had said , You 're not going down the pit .
5 Oh yes , they are still going down the pan , to the tune of £1 billion a year in the UK , according to the Management Consultancies Association .
6 I 'm glad I , I 'm not going up the chimney !
7 ‘ Because we are n't going down the ladder .
8 Lambert realized that far below the barrage was still pounding away ; that the observers reports were still going down the telephone wire , correcting ranges and bearings , selecting new targets from the shop window of the British Front .
9 and he 's now going up the point of the house but he ca n't get no further .
10 Intelligent input/output board supplier , Byfleet , Surrey-based Specialix Ltd , says its flagship product , the transputer-based RIO controller , is n't going down the storm that it had hoped it would : even OEM deals with the likes of Groupe Bull SA have not boosted sales , says marketing director , Ian Cummins , ‘ RIO is not selling as well as we thought it would … and our estimations on its performance in the market are nine months ahead of what has actually happened ’ .
11 The US factories had evolved into organisations that set out tightly circumscribed jobs , fixed procedures , absolutely nothing in terms of flexible working , multi-skilling , employee responsiveness — any of those sorts of things — and they took a look at Japanese cost patterns and thought that American industry was just going down the plug . ’
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