Example sentences of "going [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 2 | Although he made a huge bonfire of his papers and correspondence in 1916 , and kept it going for a few days , Edward preserved all her letters along with his notebooks . |
| 3 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 4 | I would n't , I would n't mind going for a few days |
| 5 | Uplands kept its wholesaling operation going for a few years after I left , but it does n't exist any more ; I think the day of the really small wholesaler is gone . ’ |
| 6 | They will also be able to supply you with a list of suitable short-term homes for the elderly in your area , to which your parent might consider going for a few weeks each year in order that you may have a holiday , if there is no other member of the family who could take over your responsibilities in your absence . |
| 7 | Going for a little walkies ! |
| 8 | In this way , Hammer became a victim of its own phenomenal success , always going for the big thrills and unable to get away with offering anything less than what was expected from a ‘ Hammer ’ film . |
| 9 | It was almost certainly going through the final stages of the digestive process . |
| 10 | Not only were we going through the timid rituals of conventional courtship after a six-month diet of take-away sex , but I was the one who insisted that it stay that way until we were legally united . |
| 11 | The standard grief reaction going through the five phases of denial , anger , bargaining , depression and finally acceptance over a period of two years but sometimes with progressive insulation of emotions resulting in a sense of isolation . |
| 12 | I am back in the little room at the top of the spiral staircase on Wednesday morning and I am sitting on the Squeez-Ee box , with the minute in front of me , going through the remaining contents of the Quaker Oats archive , page by dusty page . |
| 13 | Schiller had pleaded , once again going through the many reasons why it was right for him to gain a seat on the council . |
| 14 | I was going through the death-registry books in the cartrio civil of Bom Jesus da Mata , a market town in the sugar-plantation region of Pernambuco in the Brazilian North-East . |
| 15 | Would not the courts therefore be able to take into account the facts of offences without going through the restrictive provisions in this ill-considered new Bill ? |
| 16 | As Martin Walker says : ‘ The Oxford of the late Sixties was going through the heady delights of the sexual revolution . |
| 17 | The other system is known as record-playback and involves the skilled craft operator going through the physical motions of machining the first piece of the batch with the machine in record mode . |
| 18 | They keep wanting to supply goods without going through the proper procedures . |
| 19 | I had no intention of going through the proper channels ; it could take weeks . |
| 20 | Many standards related to document processing have just been published or are currently going through the later stages of the ISO process on their way to becoming official standards . |
| 21 | This pursuit of around 700 life histories occupied his spare time for years : ‘ I spent 10 years in Nottingham library going through the old newspapers and noting every reference to cricket up to 1880 . |
| 22 | Henry 's been going through the old ledgers but can not find any sign of a fiddle . |
| 23 | The erm election note 's up , I mean it , we were going through the local candidates through you know when the important dates are ? |
| 24 | And as Lewis ( who had already read through the statement ) watched his chief going through the same pages , he felt more than a little encouraged . |
| 25 | Liz , from King 's Lynn , Norfolk , said : ‘ I am just sorry that families we know could be going through the same feelings we had when our men left for the Gulf . |
| 26 | This is why people who are the same age as one another usually end up being friends because they are going through the same experiences simultaneously . |
| 27 | ‘ We were from different cultures , but they kept me going through the bad times . |
| 28 | Well that 's what I thought it just seemed to say they were gon na have sort of cycle ways going through the green wedges along where I cycle already . |
| 29 | Bringing that thought into consciousness means going through the classical stages of acknowledging the anger and the pain before finding acceptance . |
| 30 | It was nearly dark when we left Fontanellato and , with no lights about , it was hard to know where we were going after a few kilometres . |