Example sentences of "going [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even while the war was going badly for the English , they suffered fewer major military defeats , and fewer English nobles had to pay ransoms than received payments from their French equivalents . |
| 2 | If I was going to lose the tournament , I was going to lose by going right over the flag , not to the left or the right . |
| 3 | Well I 've seen er the it 's receiving er message and suddenly the message cutting out the sea going right over the aerial . |
| 4 | The DEA 's on-going , controlled deliveries were going right past the end of my desk . |
| 5 | Already we 're seeing sector the er , those er new independent colleges coming along and saying do you recognize , er G M B and er during the single union agreement with UNISON and we 've got ta get our act together cos the only with thing that 's going on , we 're seeing local authorities getting smashed up and we 're seeing UNISON which will be going right across the board . |
| 6 | Do you have them going right to the edge ? |
| 7 | With your looks and your talent , what 's to stop you going right to the top ? ’ |
| 8 | Time was getting short ; she must talk to Dana , and this time she was going right to the top . |
| 9 | Here 's what Gray said in September 1985 , a month before he was sacked : ‘ There are lads in the team who are going right to the top . |
| 10 | Mr Lawson began his speech by going right to the heart of the political problem — last week 's 1-point hike in interest rates . |
| 11 | I was just looking at that , going right off the subject but er that Uri Geller ? |
| 12 | If a trailer begins to ‘ snake ’ , the swinging often develops so quickly that within seconds there is no way of stopping it and avoiding going right off the road . |
| 13 | It was pointless him going right through the centre because he was incurring far too much damage and eventually he would be shot down . |
| 14 | He searched everywhere for it , going right through the village , asking people if they 'd seen it . |
| 15 | Actually , actually the installation date is oh blimey , Pats , you 're going right down the drain , ai n't you ? |
| 16 | Usually Beth accompanied her to town , but , seeing as the Hansom would be going right by the flower-shop , she had arranged for Cissie to be dropped off there . |
| 17 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 18 | As a Party we were losing nothing and , since the necessity of going slowly in the matter has come from L.G. 's own friends , I do not regret it . |
| 19 | I left the hotel , feeling rather like the Lady of Shalott , breaking the spell , leaving her room , her castle , going only to the river 's edge , there to drown herself , and made my way to the Navimore School for Girls . |
| 20 | It is to be expected that nature will surprise us ; what was significant about Forbes ' work was that he was a pioneer in studying the distribution of marine organisms , finding analogies between going deeper into the sea and going higher on land . |
| 21 | They were going deeper into the green and blue heart of the Wolfwood and Floy felt his lungs beginning to ache and his chest pound . |
| 22 | This confused Benny at first , until she realized that they must have been going deeper into the complex , while Froebe would have assumed she was making for the outside . |
| 23 | Seeking without knowing what and going deeper into the forest , I noticed that I was not alone . |
| 24 | The various exercises encourage the students to use their prior knowledge in attacking the text , getting the gist , and then going deeper into the meaning . |
| 25 | When Ash Wednesday arrived , however , she found herself going alone to the service . |
| 26 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 27 | Ruth heard no more , going swiftly through the house and down into the basement . |
| 28 | Do you remember that day , Bernard , she come in the shop and he he here he is with a wee Pot Noodle and , and it 's going all over the floor ! |
| 29 | ‘ And we are going all over the place . |
| 30 | the the flats is er a a no go area sort of thing and a kid 'll come along and spray summat on a wall and next day three kids 'll come along and spray things on the wall , so that you 've got more and more graffiti going all over the place , more and more rubbish , more and more people coming to the flats just to get into trouble . |