Example sentences of "going [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two-child Cadet is still going as an initial trainer after 45 years . |
| 2 | ‘ In the end , we played positionally rather than going for an all-out assault , otherwise we might have had an even bigger score . ’ |
| 3 | They had made the length of Loch Ness in one day , not bad going for an old man on horseback ; ‘ when he rode , ’ says Boswell at the end of the Life , ‘ he had no command or direction of his horse , but was carried as if in a balloon . ’ |
| 4 | You might not be going through an easy time emotionally or materially but all the dramatic sagas now unfolding will eventually come together to produce and excellent outcome . |
| 5 | To a number of us the crucial omission was any help for industry , which was going through an appalling time . |
| 6 | I believe the European market is simply going through an economic cycle . |
| 7 | Much of what business needs to carry out new information strategies is simply not being provided , he says ; ‘ most organisations are going through an architectural crisis at the moment due to the absence of strategic planning and management . ’ |
| 8 | Freud 's view here is Comtean ; he thinks in terms of three stages for the progress of civilization , beginning with the animistic phase , to which modern obsessional or paranoid neurotics regress , going through an intermediate phase of religion , which is different from the first because people give the powers and omnipotence to gods , and not to themselves as they do in the magical phase of animism . |
| 9 | The interior of the church — reached by going through an ornate entrance archway that seems to be competing with the presbytery doorway for the eye of the visitor — has some good frescoes , particularly the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Baptist by Giovan Battista Crespi , and a canvas study of the Nativity by Marco d'Oggiono . |
| 10 | ‘ Part of a building ’ will include entering a building lawfully but then going into a part of the building as a trespasser , such as entering the private quarters in a public house which was entered lawfully in the first instance or going behind an unattended counter in a shop . |
| 11 | Going Into an Outdoor Shop |
| 12 | You have to accept that you are going into an alien environment . |
| 13 | It 's very similar to the two previous instructions , but because you 're going into an open A note , I need to show that you must previously lower it by the equivalent of 1 fret , so you simply pick the open A , having already lowered the note by a half-tone with your tremolo arm . |
| 14 | They keep going with an endless supply of fuel . |
| 15 | There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data . |
| 16 | The family were going on an early morning shopping trip to buy a surprise for their father Dennis 's 54th birthday . |
| 17 | No , I was told before I came on the course , you 're going on the course to learn to make maximum use out of it , you 're not going on an almighty second holiday and |
| 18 | You have to have an epic car if you 're going on an epic journey . ’ |
| 19 | She realised that she was feeling almost excited , as if she were going on an adventurous journey into unknown country . |
| 20 | You might call it dreaming in a vivid , realistic way , though the occultist would like to go further , and claim that it is the ‘ desire body ’ going on an independent solo excursion from the physical . |
| 21 | She heard the impatience in his tone and went on even more firmly , ‘ It would simply be that it fits in with my long-term plan , which is to get a wide range of experience before going on an extended working holiday overseas . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Suzy ’ , an imaginary character in a small book for and about children , is a 10-year-old partially sighted pupil going to an ordinary school . |
| 23 | My passion is for its numerous Romanesque churches , in most cases humbly proportioned but elevated into unique works of art by the richness of their exquisitely-sculpted decoration ; to go to Poitou/Saintonge and not look at any of its churches would be like going to an African game reserve and ignoring the animals . |
| 24 | You 're going to an awful lot of trouble for me love . |
| 25 | Marcelle ( S ) objected that a film sequence of people going to an air-raid shelter was inaccurate as there was no earth on the shelter roof . |
| 26 | And we often do regimental courses for catering officers going to an out-of-the-way place where there may not be a trained caterer . |
| 27 | this chap with his book he says watch out of it George it burns you , look in the corner and get your torch , you know , maybe you 're going to an antique place |
| 28 | I asked many of the girls I spoke to imagine their feelings about going to an important birthday party at the age of five , and every single one mentioned dressing up , wanting to look pretty , wear a special dress , and ‘ be noticed ’ . |
| 29 | After counting the remaining rupees carefully , I spent the last free day in the company of a couple of young Seychellois who were going to an offshore reef to lift their fish-traps . |
| 30 | I was going to an urgent call — certainly not spying . |