Example sentences of "going [adv prt] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was no restoration work going on and no restoration materials stored there . |
| 2 | ‘ Unless something is done about what is going on and a stop is put to the chaos , then the health-care prospects for London are very gloomy . ’ |
| 3 | The top half of it slides down over the bottom half so that it can be lowered right down to table-top level when a debate is going on and a speaker is sitting down . |
| 4 | ‘ I went out to see what was going on and a policeman told us to evacuate the area . |
| 5 | Over the last fourteen years forty two million pounds and if they go on the way their going on and the way they 're talking it 's all gon na be for nicks nowt . |
| 6 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 7 | As a result the climate of collaboration could be full of unresolved questions and tensions , children could be confused about what was going on and the potential of the collaboration could be subverted . |
| 8 | What if the passenger gets out because he is terrified by what is going on and the car crashes at the next corner ? |
| 9 | Because they consider themselves to be strong , in power , in positions of power and coping well , and then all of a sudden to have something like this war going and carpet bombing going on and the use of chemical weapons and germ warfare . |
| 10 | A considerable learning process is going on and the outcome — democracy , authoritarianism or prolonged instability — is uncertain ( Sakwa , 1990 , pp. 159–69 ; Smith , 1992 , pp. 129–45 ) . |
| 11 | If they could see the theatre to see what was going on and an example of audio description |
| 12 | It 's going down and every time it goes down it 's equal on both sides yeah . |
| 13 | The sun was going down and the sky had declined into green-gold before the bird was tolerably roasted . |
| 14 | Yeah , outside , it 's like my pram , I mean , I was , Stacey was going in hospital last year to have her adeno adenoids out and Sue was having him and I thought well , he was too big for his carrycot , but take the pram down and he 's got nothing to sleep in and er , I put him in it , it been six months since it was do well since he started using it , so I give that a good going over and the pram wheels come up lovely |
| 15 | When I get there — the whole place is going up and the farmer 's in his pyjamas trying to save the rick . |
| 16 | Midge had drawn the curtains before going out and the room was in darkness . |
| 17 | A radar beam is one that you send out and it bounces off the thing you 're trying to measure the distance of and then the beam comes back and is picked up again and you measure the time between the beam going out and the beam coming back , and that 's twice the time it takes for the beam to get to the object and back again . |
| 18 | Once the process was set in motion , there could be no going back and no possibility of negotiation . |
| 19 | You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro-Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble-maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class ’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't … |
| 20 | There was unemployment going about and the man that had a certain job at making certain things were n't to keen to show the apprentice what to do or give them the recipes . |
| 21 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |