Example sentences of "go in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I got punched to pieces that night and the only reason I won the fight was that I could still keep going in the 12th round . |
| 2 | you know , and so I avoided her , but I would tell her , but if I saw her I would say Jenny I must admit I did see you going in The General but I did n't come out because I was so upset , but I , I wonder what she 's doing , cos she , I heard she 's got her own business , but I ca n't see that . |
| 3 | Ironically , Gloucester look likely to be one of the sides they may well pass going in the other direction if the Tynesiders fulfil their three-year plan . |
| 4 | Ironically , Gloucester look likely to be one of the sides they may well pass going in the other direction if the Tynesiders fulfil their three-year plan . |
| 5 | Going in the other direction , say from English into Arabic , a translator should try to find some way of conveying the emphasis attached to a fronted predicator . |
| 6 | Eh , I 'm going in the other room . |
| 7 | And going in the other direction , what do you have inside atoms ? |
| 8 | I do n't sort of think of it as art going in the other direction . |
| 9 | Charles 's Navy had fought very well against the Dutch in the 1660s until the money ran out , and had kept going in the 1670s satisfactorily enough . |
| 10 | However , the trend appears to be going in the reverse direction . |
| 11 | I mean we all know it , and we all know there 's a lot on this list which are most unpalatable , and they 're only there because we 've been set the task of reaching a particular sum of money , and er , if we had the choice we 'd be going in the reverse direction , and , and adding . |
| 12 | updating report , Chairman , I 've these past , the contract for the on-site services has now been let by , by the County Council 's private ent department , they 're actually going in the present time . |
| 13 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
| 14 | This is what one would expect in a process that feeds back positively on itself , further promoting the conditions that got it going in the first place . |
| 15 | And he er he 'd made all that lace , well then instead of him going in the First World War and making the net which was used you see his lace trade all went . |
| 16 | None of that extra quality , whatever it was , which had got the business going in the first place , which had ensured John-William success in those early rough-and-ready days of colossal risks and colossal returns , when so many had failed . |
| 17 | Finally , with ‘ Do n't walk on the wet edge , you 'll get a verruca ’ ringing in my ears , and ‘ Make sure your hair is BONE dry before you go out into the cold ’ ringing in my brain , we would lay siege to the fish-and-chip shop which was my main reason for going in the first place . |
| 18 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 19 | Saints again struggled to get going in the second half and had to wait until three minutes from time for their final try through Hunte after numerous handling mistakes . |
| 20 | Seven months on , how I wish I could say that the Escort/Orion range is at least going in the right direction . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're going in the right direction but I do n't know where the piste has got to . ’ |
| 22 | When he came alongside a trawler 25 miles out from the English coast he asked : ‘ Am I going in the right direction for France ? ’ |
| 23 | Regarding community care in general in the authority the manager insisted , ‘ We have n't got there yet , but we are certainly going in the right direction . ’ |
| 24 | Maybe we 'll come across a friendly native with a forked stick going in the right direction and I 'll give him the big-screen smile and hand it over . |
| 25 | ‘ This survey also highlights that we are certainly going in the right direction . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm getting a case together and it 's going in the right direction . |
| 27 | I do n't think the vicarage can be here — Dorothy , are you sure we 're going in the right direction ? ’ |
| 28 | I believe that what we are seeing from President Moi and members of his Government is all going in the right direction . |
| 29 | Secondly , I wish to see our participation at Maastricht emphasising and improving those matters on which the Community is going in the right direction . |
| 30 | It 's going in the right direction . |