Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] going [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My presence there seemed , suddenly , an intrusion ; my curiosity , if not an outrage , at any rate no excuse for going any further . |
| 2 | I had nothing particular planned , merely an idea that it might be interesting to thrash our way out into the open ocean , though , mindful of the danger of tropical storms , I had no intention of going too far from the safe shelter of a Bahamian hurricane hole . |
| 3 | Oh there was some talk of going somewhere else . |
| 4 | Small boys in Yorkshire and Worcestershire , going out with their jam jars to collect newts and tiddlers , still talk of going out after ‘ asks ’ . |
| 5 | Even that auguste paper , the T and A , in the editorial , recently stated , we can not afford the extravagance of going along just to see the party , just to be at the party . |
| 6 | They were there only because they 'd been stopped at gunpoint from going any farther — by the Turkish army , a key NATO ally of the US and Britain . |
| 7 | Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match . |
| 8 | I wonder how many other smallholders there are who also feel the responsibility of going away too daunting because of having to leave their animals with under experienced friends or relatives . |
| 9 | Anderson was booked in the first half for bringing down Marin on a night when the Germans again showed their propensity for going down theatrically under straightforward challenges . |
| 10 | The accusation of going in too many directions at once , of increasing bureaucracy in the Ministry and of mixing the essential with the marginal has been one frequently voiced against Jack Lang . |
| 11 | It is possible to escape from the British winter without going too far afield . |
| 12 | Not with things sort of going on there 's and now you think sort of it , it 's time when people sort of would club together . |
| 13 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 14 | is sort of going back quite a bit |
| 15 | The danger of going too far was always present right from the start of the renewed intellectual ‘ blooming and contending ’ . |
| 16 | You 're in danger of going too far this week . |
| 17 | She fell silent for a moment before going on quietly , ‘ I want to come home , Elizabeth . |
| 18 | No point in going round there . |
| 19 | There was no point in going on then . |
| 20 | There 's no point in going this far unless you have the family behind you . |
| 21 | He no longer expects to win major tournaments but he settles for creating a noisy sensation in going as far as he can go . |
| 22 | According to Marsh and his colleagues ( 1978 ) police intervention is often welcomed by the hooligans in so far as their presence provides a safety valve and prevents the aggro from going too far . |
| 23 | When I stand in the direct path , say three yards away , I prevent projections of the sound from going any further , though this is a good position for myself to hear ‘ my sound ’ . |
| 24 | Do you think there is not a danger in going too far too fast in developing these chemical compounds ? |
| 25 | As Guha points out , there is none of this management ego trip stuff of going upmarket so that people compliment you on your Littlewoods tie when you go to the golf club . |
| 26 | ‘ If it had n't been for her courage and fortitude in going out there and taking on the role of investigator , private detective and motivator , those files would still be closed and the police would just have an unsolved case of a missing person . ’ |
| 27 | Then , ‘ Just as well we wo n't be sharing this place , if you make a habit of going around half naked . ’ |
| 28 | She staggered with the laden trug to where the buffers stood up like huge metal pennies on their sides preventing the train from going any further . |
| 29 | Would it not be more prudent to say something interesting about her stamp collection before going out quietly to buy a simple cookbook . |
| 30 | He had the merit of going always straight to the point — what is best for Christianity in England ? and besides that the scruples of air marshals , or the wishes of the Dean of York , or the comfort of Bell , or the scholarship of Ramsey , are nothing . |