Example sentences of "[noun sg] be go [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 If you imagine the blood 's going round and you 're trying to get you know
2 The new National Criminal Intelligence Service , which will handle all known information on 25,000 top villains , said : ‘ Crime is going up and up and up .
3 If the firm 's decision criterion is to go ahead if the expected return is 10 per cent , then it should go ahead .
4 The committee 's general ambivalence probably reflected its membership though it did admit that recent investigations suggested that to some extent investment was going abroad because of the unfavourable economic environment at home .
5 I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy .
6 I left the sack of heads and bodies in the Bunker just as the light was going completely and the stars were starting to come out .
7 Unfortunately Sten could n't get back , the light was going down and our fearless pest controllers were left stranded .
8 But the survey showed that it was difficult to judge whether standards of spelling were going up or down .
9 It is also useful to have an archaeologist examine the area while construction work is going on since archaeological remains are not always easily recognized by those concerned with construction .
10 Now they are going to appeal , but in the meanwhile the work is going on and the bulldozers are ready and waiting on the west side of the excavations , right up against the seventeenth-century cellars which were found intact , still full of bottles and vessels .
11 The sun was going down when we sailed into the port , and the doctor and Mr Trelawney took me on shore .
12 The sun was going down and the sky had declined into green-gold before the bird was tolerably roasted .
13 The sun was going down and it was in a warm twilight that they reached the summit of their climb .
14 But by now the American work was going well and President Roosevelt decided that future exchanges with Britain should be kept to a minimum .
15 I 'm glad to say that tickets for the rock and roll evening are going well although there are still a few left for late bookers
16 When I get there — the whole place is going up and the farmer 's in his pyjamas trying to save the rick .
17 Your job is to go out and create as large a market for your band as is possible for an act without industry representation .
18 ‘ Our aim is to go there and make sure United stay at the bottom of the Premier League .
19 Mike Teague says he was amazed at how many people turned out to watch … and it just goes to show how much Gloucester people enjoy their rugby … he says his comeback is going well but there 's a lot of pressure to keep winning and England want is a third grand slam …
20 Erm , why is that there er , that review process is going up and down the country and why is that people are dissatisfied ?
21 A considerable learning process is going on and the outcome — democracy , authoritarianism or prolonged instability — is uncertain ( Sakwa , 1990 , pp. 159–69 ; Smith , 1992 , pp. 129–45 ) .
22 There are occasions when the strategy demands whole group discussions and it 's all too easy to be lulled into thinking the drama is going well because a group of very articulate children are thoroughly engaged in the work and able to vocalise their very imaginative ideas , while other children are left out of the real decisionmaking processes .
23 His job was to go back and forth to the store , from the store to the job , etcetera er up to the bin fill the bag up with chore take the bag up to the rivet boy and er the the chore was used of course was used to heat the rivets .
24 The newspaper are going on and on and on about the problems that people have road and road .
25 I watched it for several minutes , and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and the rest were going up and down .
26 I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down .
27 ‘ Before the fight they were chanting my name for the first time and I could see the effect it had on Ruddock , his head was going down while my chest was swelling with pride .
28 At Cheltenham yesterday , however , Dunwoody did something to put the record straight with a 26 ½-1 treble on Remittance Man , Wont Be Gone Long and Royal Cedar to take his score to 34 , but only marginally improve a strike rate of 15 per cent .
29 I should imagine your father 's going out as well . ’
30 We need a decision on whether this Million Sterling Tournament is to go ahead or not .
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