Example sentences of "going [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important technique , which keeps you going as an automaton until interest and desire take over , and concentration sharpens to a fine point , is that of having a rigorous time-table of study laid down in advance . |
| 2 | and records himself going for a piss but he does a bit , it cuts out when he 's actually pissing but he 's going on about now the biros are getting in the way of my knob here |
| 3 | They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up . |
| 4 | In that case could you keep it going for a while if you 're out of a job ? |
| 5 | Thanks to what Breeze had earned , they were able to rake up the fares — and now here they were , on their way to a remote Devonshire village with just enough money to keep them going for a fortnight or so . |
| 6 | really worked for families if you 're going for a day or maybe two days . |
| 7 | you know , cos we were all single I think all of us were and we were just going for a joke cos seriously it 's just a cattle market at you know you do n't talk to people well you do but it 's just a laugh . |
| 8 | I felt like going for a ride and when I saw you take horse I followed , seeking companionship . |
| 9 | Now you 've worked through these 12 exercises , lightly jog for a few seconds and remember to jog where you can , whether it 's going for a bus or running up the stairs . |
| 10 | Rather than , sort of , go from Manchester by plane what , they decided they 'd drive down and take the car over so we were supposed to be going for a meal and they said , where shall we go for a meal ? |
| 11 | I ca n't see the point in going for a walk unless a chop lies at the end of it . ’ |
| 12 | So nothing could be more natural than going for a walk and holding hands with mum . |
| 13 | I remember driving down to Leith on that Friday night , and just going for a walk and thinking that the next time the sun came up I would be playing at Murrayfield . |
| 14 | If you are going for a job that you have never done before , either from necessity or because you are looking for a change of direction , you should take care to prepare for this question by listing all the experience and personal qualities you have which suit you for the job . |
| 15 | Obviously if you did a course in engineering or modern languages and you are going for a job where these skills are required it should not be difficult to explain that this is what positively interests you and you chose the subject because you wanted to go on to employment in the same field . |
| 16 | You know the last time I went back to Britain , I was going for a month but I changed my flight and left two weeks early . |
| 17 | We thought we were going for a month or so , until the fighting died down . |
| 18 | ‘ No good going for a soldier if you ca n't show a little decision of your own . ’ |
| 19 | I joined them and the going for a week or two was very hard . |
| 20 | Yes because y if you 've used all your hot water you ca n't have that boiler going for an hour or two can you ? |
| 21 | And it was going , but she doing something and she the Lady seen her going through a corridor and she said to her , Run Annie run . |
| 22 | Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's going through a lot because of your not wanting to see him . ’ |
| 24 | Forty-nine Britons on an excursion from Cyprus were on the bus going through an underpass when a man dropped a nail bomb from above . |
| 25 | I think of people , grand old British artists , like Turner for example , going on grand tours and coming back to Britain and going through , as it were , a period of painting where he is influenced by what he 's seen and heard and experienced in Europe , and then more latterly I think of France as being , Paris as being the centre of art and British artists going and spending their period in Paris and coming back and going through an impressionist or an expressionist phase . |
| 26 | He was going like a winner when he came to the third from home , fell and broke a leg . |
| 27 | For example , Skinner argues that , to the extent that the thirsty person receives a drink after going into a pub and requesting ‘ a pint of beer ’ , that behaviour , requesting a pint of beer , is reinforced . |
| 28 | I then bought some designers ' gouache ( colourfast ) and found I could still paint wet into wet without the whole thing going into a swim as in a watercolour painting . |
| 29 | Dad normally would n't have been out in such madness , but there he was , this grey-haired man just over five feet tall , going into a phone-box when we had a working telephone in our hall . |
| 30 | That 's odd , going into a shop that sells everything else but no cigarettes . |