Example sentences of "[prep] going [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor , after going through a similar — but much more extensive — exercise to the one here , came to this conclusion : |
| 2 | Rigney , after going through a difficult period with a knee injury , is back in action following a summer of hard graft and determined to regain his international berth . |
| 3 | England , after going through a two-hour final training session , were given a no-nonsense pep-talk by Carling . |
| 4 | He had been sentenced after going on a two-month crime spree . |
| 5 | Search consultants are often called in when an organisation is considering going into a new business sector , as Marks & Spencer did when they went into financial services with their credit card ; as when BP were trying to diversify their business and spot winners by developing new technology ; as financial services institutions do when they wish to launch a new product or enter new markets . |
| 6 | failed to take full advantage of Gretna 's slip up and could only draw 3–3 Tow despite going into a 3–2 lead with three minutes left . |
| 7 | The ‘ stick ’ of going to a rival company who would use the publicity can act as another pressure . |
| 8 | Like tonight , faced with the ordeal of going to a grand dinner party with people who all knew each other and were far removed from her experience , she had acquitted herself proudly and well . |
| 9 | Is there any possibility of going to a separate system and using er non potable water for all these other activities which must take up about seventy five or eighty percent of the quantities ? |
| 10 | An honourable offer from Covent Garden or Glyndebourne for a worthy artistic venture is acceptable , but ‘ if I have a feeling that someone 's dreaming of going to a small provincial European theatre because they 're offered 1,000 dollars and they think it 's more important than a whole season at the Kirov , I am so angry and upset that I am absolutely confident when I say do n't come back . |
| 11 | But what is the meaning of this apparently nonsensical ritual of going to a running stream at midnight at the time of a full moon ? |
| 12 | For those of us who work at the power stations , the idea of going on a guided tour may seem daft . |
| 13 | His decision to take a year off from international rugby has left selectors with the difficult choice of going for a short-term replacement or of opting for long-term continuity . |
| 14 | A POLICEMAN dived into a canal to pull a driver from his crashed car — then booked him for going through a red light . |
| 15 | At Purley on 4 March 1989 , five people were killed and 87 injured after a crash , and a BR internal inquiry blamed the train driver for going through a red light . |
| 16 | The influence had already rubbed off on former team-mate Ally McCoist , who was dropped from a vital old firm derby in 1991 for going on a prohibited trip to the Cheltenham Gold Cup . |
| 17 | So I think there is a case for going for a fixed-rate . |
| 18 | Yes I think that the Scot 's are more puritanical and also I , I had three babies , erm I was pregnant out there and I flew back to Scotland to have them and the difference between going to a Swiss gynaecologist and seeing a doctor here was incredible . |
| 19 | Time will tell whether collecting the alpine 4000ers will become as popular as Munro bagging , but for a real challenge , how about going for a complete set of 150 peaks and 4000m tops ! |
| 20 | It 's like going into a dark room and being afraid . |
| 21 | It 's like going into a ninety-mile-an-hour spin on a cliff road in a Ferrari — and still not dying . ’ |
| 22 | But we 've also had an artist from the Art Week event , which the Rainforest Festival overlaps with going into a chosen school , with a member of Friends of the Earth , we give them a talk about rainforest , and they do the , I do n't know if you 've seen them in the buses , the sort of advertising slots , we 've got 80 of those slots on the buses throughout the rainforest festival , and the children are actually drawing pictures for them . |
| 23 | ‘ It ranged from going to a new swimming pool with a whirly slide to going to the National Gallery . |
| 24 | I knew players like the incomparable Joe Davis and I doubt if he did any more training than is entailed in going for a long walk . |
| 25 | Choice of equipment is vital and it is better for a beginner not to buy his clubs before going to a professional for his lessons . |
| 26 | Frederick , who is developing a sideline in composing , plans to stay at school until after A-levels before going to a musical academy . |
| 27 | Before going into a residential or nursing home it is sensible to consider giving any valuables not in everyday use to a close relative or friend for safekeeping . |
| 28 | Horses sometimes suffer depression on going to a new home . |
| 29 | Yet he was insisting on going to a whelping case . |
| 30 | In what follows , I propose to examine some of the reasons for this , without going into a detailed exegetical discussion of the theories concerned , my purpose being merely to establish a sufficient platform for a phenomenological analysis , which is to follow . |