Example sentences of "[be] going [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're going up a ladder are you ? |
| 2 | Yeah I think you will just pop it on then just looks such a mess when you 're going round a bit like that but I 'm afraid |
| 3 | No , no C and B this time , we 're going down a bit , it 's in your left hand |
| 4 | ‘ You take the kid 's word and you 're going down a tunnel , might be a wrong-way tunnel , ’ Nick said . |
| 5 | Yeah , but then you 're going out a distance are n't you ? |
| 6 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm going back a bit there . |
| 8 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 9 | I 'm going back a step but I think it 's |
| 10 | Aye , I 'm going back a lot of years ago |
| 11 | So it will just mean that on those cases , on approximately forty , their arrears letter will be going out a couple of weeks late . |
| 12 | It seems to be going down a treat . |
| 13 | I thought we were going on a bit . |
| 14 | and dashed out and fitted it , complete waste of bloody time mind you cos er we 've got the own software back in now , well actually the latest releases of it , we were going back a release because er we were having trouble , but it turns out it 's not our problem external problem so , put three dot seven back in . |
| 15 | GUINNESS is going down a treat in Sweden — at £5.50 a pint . |
| 16 | Meanwhile at the Swan in Southrop , Old Spot Pork is going down a treat . |
| 17 | TOLLY beer from Suffolk is going down a storm among the wine drinkers of Italy.And ale from Tolly 's Cliff Brewery in Ipswich could soon be wetting the whistles of beer-lovers in Canada , Germany , Holland and France.Tolly bosses are celebrating after exporting 1,200 cases of their special Year Beer , Cantab , to Italy — and they have received inquiries from four other countries.Brian Cowie , Tolly 's joint managing director , said interest from abroad had initially come since the brewery 's name had been publicised on BBC television 's recent Troubleshooter programme . |
| 18 | like he does n't know if he 's going on a bit at the moment , he 's just wandering about , |
| 19 | It 's going off a bit now is n't it ? |
| 20 | That 's going back a bit in n it ? |
| 21 | Oh that 's going back a bit is n't it ? |
| 22 | Oh God that 's going back a bit . |
| 23 | A leading advertisement writer describes how she was going round a factory making china when she saw an employee taking plates from the production line , smashing them and throwing the pieces into a box . |
| 24 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |