Example sentences of "be going [prep] an " in BNC.

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1 You have to have an epic car if you 're going on an epic journey . ’
2 I know the car 's essential but for instance if you 're going to an estate agent you 're not running round using the car in company time .
3 We 're going to an organised display .
4 We 're going to an engagement party .
5 You 're going to an awful lot of trouble for me love .
6 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
7 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 .
8 It 's also very good again if you 're going on your committee meeting or you 're going for an interview to rub on what they call the solar plexus just here .
9 As for the comments made by Opposition Members about the reduction in the number of trainees in the industry , regrettably that has to be explained by the fact that the industry has been going through an especially difficult time and still is .
10 Perhaps you are going on an outing or meeting a friend .
11 Ask yourself whether you are going through an emotionally upsetting period in your life .
12 We are going through an extensive , 3 month training programme which has professional recognition in Social Work .
13 ‘ We are going through an examination of every sport and every discipline and every event to see whether they should stay within the programme , ’ he said .
14 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 . ’
15 You have to accept that you are going into an alien environment .
16 I 'm going to an auction .
17 ‘ I 'm going on an expedition to Borneo , ’ she said .
18 You will be going to an auto-da-fé tomorrow , and a tournament on Saturday .
19 Well we 'll be going to an auction to get like a reasonable car .
20 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 .
21 You feel more confident do n't you in a group situation if you know exactly what people er er know or what they do n't know , cos there 's nothing worse is n't there than to go in and thinking they may already know this , I might be going in an teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here , I 'm not sure what they know about this .
22 The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me !
23 I know that , because Gran said so once , when we were going through an atlas together .
24 The family were going on an early morning shopping trip to buy a surprise for their father Dennis 's 54th birthday .
25 She realised that she was feeling almost excited , as if she were going on an adventurous journey into unknown country .
26 The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see
27 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 .
28 It looks like Taligent Inc is going with an iteration of the Mach microkernel as the guts of its anticipated operating environment — see page seven : PC Week 's gossip column ‘ Spenser Katt ’ thinks Taligent 's class libraries could be integrated into the OS/2 development system and possibly the Mac application framework next year .
29 and it 's going for an audition tape for er for radio one okay ?
30 Or did she say he 's going for an interview in June for the Met , or something , anyway .
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