Example sentences of "by going [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officers respond by going immediately to the places suspected to be the most likely sources of the effluent . |
| 2 | Froissart 's account of the way in which many of the leading French nobility , by going forward at the battle of Crécy , in effect chose the likelihood of death to a dishonourable flight , suggests to the modern reader a group more intent upon self-immolation than upon the serious business of achieving victory through order and discipline . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Mr Lawson began his speech by going right to the heart of the political problem — last week 's 1-point hike in interest rates . |
| 5 | Tony Heginbottom incorporated the tradition , however , when he revived Spaw Sunday by going early to the well and surrounding it with boughs of may and holly and bunches of wild flowers . |
| 6 | A portfolio must be constructed by going long in the security and short in the call options so that , where m is the number of calls that must be written to produce a riskless hedge . |