Example sentences of "[noun sg] be going [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Dad 's coming over here and he and Mum are going down to Cornwall .
2 A huge land-grab is going on in Bosnia-Herzegovina today as Serbs and Croats fight to divide up the country .
3 A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there .
4 My mind is going round in circles . ’
5 And similarly we must not allow ourselves to look for something below that practice on which we can ground the feeling that the practice is going on in an objectively correct way .
6 They have n't decided yet whether my car is going up to his office or to fishing .
7 ‘ The only problem is , my car is going in for a service , so maybe you could do me a favour and give me a lift there ?
8 And the Isle of Ely college is going out for a meal , so that wo n't be back , so he ca n't have that one , so we have n't got one !
9 The Vulcan Bomber 's going out of operation , but this weekend it 's the main attraction at what 's being billed as Britain 's most spectacular air show .
10 And if they say well , we want erm seventy five different locations served with crisps stands by ten o'clock tomorrow because our advert is going out on national T V tomorrow can we do it ?
11 ‘ That typewriter 's going back at once , ’ he said inadequately .
12 Buckinghamshire 's total book stock was going up by about forty thousand volumes a year , last year it grew just eight thousand .
13 But since it seemed that her car was going nowhere without one , ‘ Could the mechanic fit one for me — as a matter of some urgency ? ’ she asked anxiously — and discovered that her rescuer must have already put that same question to him .
14 The soldier said he did n't remember firing but thought he must have fired as the car was going away from him .
15 Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure .
16 Sun is going off on a separate direction .
17 Next door , steady work is going ahead on a long term , very ambitious educational project to which he is now turning his energies .
18 Work is going on in the Beaufort Sea on the West Coast and also off the East Coast where a significant discovery — Hibernia — has led to disagreement and a legal dispute between the federal government and the province of Newfoundland concerning sovereignty over offshore fuels .
19 Experimental work is going on in the production of educational software for videodisc .
20 Further work is going on in terms of market augmentation to clarify things for consumers . ’
21 Dates for this year were already booked but much work is going on in the background to see how possible it is to reduce the number of reunions and thereby enable members to meet more old friends .
22 Footpaths have been widened in Bondgate and similar work is going on near the Northgate , Tubwell Row and Priestgate entrances to the Cornmill shopping centre .
23 I do hope you and Per and the girls are well , and that work is going satisfactorily for the two of you and studies likewise for them .
24 but I do , if a man , a bloke 's going out of his way
25 The bulker 's going in at two o'clock .
26 One such exercise is going on at the Building Research Establishment .
27 Erm often it 's the father , often the abuse is going on in connection with a whole range of processes whereby that person dominates the climate in that household .
28 I do n't think it 's , the swe , the swelling 's going down at all do you ?
29 Some girl 's going out with a boy , he zipped her tent up over them and she was so shocked she pulled her trousers down by accident .
30 The sun was going down upon Presley City .
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