Example sentences of "[noun sg] going [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that I would get a lift on a boat going up the canal . |
| 2 | I worked it out , from things Barbara Coleman told me , and I hitched a lift in a car going up the valley and walked the last mile or two . |
| 3 | There are tantalising descriptions of buildings now demolished — ‘ a wonderful high ceiling in the banking hall going up the equivalent of two storeys ’ — plus accounts of lunchtimes and commuting . |
| 4 | They also liked it — as did the other villages — for the spiteful inter-village competitiveness that lay under the seemingly innocent accounts of the Snead Women 's Institute going on an Easter outing to Weston-super-Mare , while the Quindale branch could only muster a local dried-flower expert whose crisp and solid arrangements , adorned with bows of florist 's ribbon , they could all have recognized in their sleep . |
| 5 | Half five in a morning , with the rain going down the back of your bleeding neck , the police set upon you by the owner and the manager , eh , that 'd liven 'em up . |
| 6 | And when my father spoke about He got a holi they got a holiday from the school , that day , because the teacher came to see this old body going out the glen that 's body and they walked out , so it 'd be two miles out and then maybe another three miles up the er Glen Shee kirk here , so they had a good bit to carry him . |
| 7 | But , as we have evidence going back a number of years the reactor is in such poor condition that there is no way they could safely operate the current requirement of the modern government standard . |
| 8 | Inside illustration : why is art going down the tubes ? |
| 9 | Clouds of dust swirling around and slowly being sucked into the middle — like bath water going down a plug-hole . |
| 10 | I just make them see the colour going up the stem of a plant . |
| 11 | After making the running for the first circuit , he let Royal Cedar take a breather going down the back for the last time , with Seagram and Durham Edition leading him down the hill . |
| 12 | He said nothing more , and his silence played across her taut nerves like a fingernail going down a blackboard . |
| 13 | I tell you when he 's coming but then I 'd have the cooker going up the Swannee Well , well no . |