Example sentences of "going [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs . |
| 2 | Hrun going about the business of being a hero , he realised , was quite different to the wine-bibbing , carousing Hrun who occasionally came to Ankh-Morpork . |
| 3 | Friends came in for a drink and a snack and kept on coming and going for the rest of the day , which was useful as well as friendly because they brought their appetites with them , and most of the refreshments were disposed of . |
| 4 | The comedy of errors continued in this particular opening clash when Faldo , going for the green with a 3-wood across a strong wind at the shortened 10th hole , followed Strange into high trees . |
| 5 | He was going for the green on the short par-4 . |
| 6 | But he was n't going to risk going for the green in two — he 's a gambler , but he 's not stupid , not with a one-stroke lead — and so he hit a wedge for his second shot short of the lake and then a 155-yard 9-iron directly over the flag for his approach . |
| 7 | Even the Kiwis were staggered by his bravery in going for the ball on the floor . |
| 8 | We tried to reassure him that this was n't the case , that newspeople were merely going for the stories with the biggest hook . |
| 9 | On the drinks front , a litre bottle of red Fitou is going for the price of a 75cl bottle ( £3.15 ) , as is a litre of Lutomer Riesling ( £2.85 ) . |
| 10 | I thought he was going for the interview for the job |
| 11 | Three years later , another new ‘ Bluebird ’ was prevented from going for the record by floods at Lake Eyre , Australia , a delay which brought much criticism of Campbell from his backers , led by Sir Alfred Owen . |
| 12 | It was down the pasture near Lartington on a day during the last war , when the weather was very bad and I was going for the bus to Barnard Castle . |
| 13 | Going through the door to the back kitchen you had to take three steps down and immediately to the left was the matchboard door to the garden . |
| 14 | She was now going through the door into the store-room behind the shop when her father said , ‘ Mind , close up at nine sharp , Aggie . |
| 15 | He was wondering whether he ought to start going through the clothes at once , or wait for Sergeant Burgess , when an attendant came to say that the sergeant had arrived . |
| 16 | Owen was going through the accounts with Nikos trying to find pockets of money which might still be emptied . |
| 17 | So concentrate and then sort of pull back a bit from it and check the main bits and a good way is going through the sounds of each syllable . |
| 18 | There was something very appealing about going through the papers with a pair of scissors in your hand and then sticking your clippings into a book . ’ |
| 19 | He swept from nowhere to 13 in the world in four weeks and kept it going through the rest of the year and throughout 1991 . |
| 20 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |
| 21 | Sometime after we began work he started talking about the King 's Cross railway station fire that killed so many and about the fact that he was on an underground train going through the station at that time . |
| 22 | Sergeant mainly er gave the briefing and after going through the formality of giving er the officers the deb the information that had been received er our intention erm a method by which we going to follow this through erm and other information such as radio call signs . |
| 23 | The village developed gradually , and although road communications were poor there was a stage coach going through the village from Hull to Patrington Haven . |
| 24 | So we 'll have groups of teams coming along for an hour at a time and hopefully we 'll , you know , keep the impetus going through the day by doing that . |
| 25 | This was to avoid all the expense and trouble of going through the rigmarole of a full review for trivial reasons ( hurt pride , for instance ) and delaying the issue of the report , with the associated adverse effect on air safety . |
| 26 | Fifteen apprentices are going through the scheme at the moment , ranging in age from 22 to 38 . |
| 27 | Moreover , disc junkies are said to spend hours happily bending over and going through the layers of CDs , are always hunting for a bargain and collectable item , and seldom believe in paying the full listed price . |
| 28 | You could perhaps team up with somebody else if you wanted to , so if you see someone and we 're just going through the order in which they appear . |
| 29 | Part of the Council 's records-base is going through the mill of privatisation . |
| 30 | Here he got up and went to the desk , to look for cigarettes , and stood with his back to her , going through the business of putting one in his mouth and lighting it . |