Example sentences of "going [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the plane which kept the transatlantic service going during the Second World War . |
| 2 | Or would Eden think of the air marshals , and the children who had lost their parents in a blitz , and former warriors who had seen too much blood on a battlefield , and exercise a silent veto , by going for the second preference ? |
| 3 | They 've got to keep working and going for the second ball . |
| 4 | If in doubt , keep two provisional subjects going for the first half of the first term — and then drop the one that appeals to you the less . |
| 5 | Half my year 's gon na be gone , and I 'm sort of , going for the third year , and it 's really heavy . |
| 6 | Going into the first Test at Port-of-Spain under the leadership of Mike Denness , England were put in and bowled out for a meagre 131 ( Greig top-scored with 37 ) . |
| 7 | It has been some debate er on the board and the management committee about the direction the theatre should be going into the nineteenth century twentieth century and I think and I and I think it 's important that this meeting hopefully will be very constructive in the sense that is important that the theatre actually gets the views of people use the building , and people actually come along and support the of the theatre . |
| 8 | Only a superb performance by their former reserve goalkeeper Steve Pears prevented United going into the second leg at Old Trafford next Wednesday with a commanding lead . |
| 9 | DERRICK COOPER , hitting one sharp iron after another through the hazy morning air , handed in a 66 — six under par — to share the lead with Keith Waters and Barry Lane going into the second round of the Jersey European Airways Open . |
| 10 | Kapil Dev hit 129 to give the tourists hope and , while Wessels snuffed that out , the match was only seven minutes from going into the fifth day . |
| 11 | That new leaf did n't going into the next quarter and |
| 12 | Keith does not understand why they are going into the next room . |
| 13 | Kim Milson , who won the first match , once again won his section and was leading the series , yours truly in second place and perfectly placed going into the third match which was to be fished on the Grand Union Canal at Slapton . |
| 14 | This was a real blow to me , as I had done well in form 5a at school and had to watch my luckier contemporaries going into the sixth form for another year with the sure prospect of getting to teacher training college , or the luckiest of them all , to university . |
| 15 | Indeed , they lost Gooch , Hick — cheaply again — and Stewart before they were in credit ; but with Smith mixing careworn defence and carefree attack , once pulling Su'a for six while on one knee as the Samoan attempted some left-arm spin , and Lamb all bustle and energy , English fears were eased going into the last day . |
| 16 | Tracking the selectorial spoor had left one convinced that , going into the last day of the Five Nations championship , Scotland had ten players still very much in the running . |
| 17 | Going into the last quarter , Rebels held a slender one-goal lead , but they took hold of the game completely . |
| 18 | He was never the same player again , still in with a chance going into the last round but then fading away with a 75 . |
| 19 | We led by two shots going into the last round , and when it blew on the last day , I did n't think anybody could beat Trevino . |
| 20 | In the Masters he blew his chances by pushing an over-clubbed second shot into the crowd to take a bogey-five on the last hole and lose by a stroke to Jack Nicklaus after leading going into the last round . |
| 21 | as I was going with the fourth year |
| 22 | As the anxiety for each target is overcome so the client is only ever raising their anxiety by ten units by going onto the next target . |
| 23 | ‘ But I got punched to pieces that night and the only reason I won the fight was that I could still keep going in the 12th round . |
| 24 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 25 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 26 | None of that extra quality , whatever it was , which had got the business going in the first place , which had ensured John-William success in those early rough-and-ready days of colossal risks and colossal returns , when so many had failed . |
| 27 | Finally , with ‘ Do n't walk on the wet edge , you 'll get a verruca ’ ringing in my ears , and ‘ Make sure your hair is BONE dry before you go out into the cold ’ ringing in my brain , we would lay siege to the fish-and-chip shop which was my main reason for going in the first place . |
| 28 | Saints again struggled to get going in the second half and had to wait until three minutes from time for their final try through Hunte after numerous handling mistakes . |
| 29 | We have some new industries , I B M for example , but I B M are shedding labour at a very fast rate , something like seven hundred people are going in the next year , so we have our problems in Portsmouth . |
| 30 | And they were going in the next morning , oh they 'd phoned up they 'd cancelled . |