Example sentences of "going [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Two further points are of importance in going about the budgeting process .
2 The simplest way of getting an answer is to show the advertisement to a number of individuals selected from the target group , or to a group of them , and to get a discussion going about the ad .
3 ‘ I remember him going about the village , collecting the details , the birth certificates and things .
4 Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs .
5 Leopold related the news , and the Archbishop 's excuse for not having allowed father and son to travel the previous year : ‘ he said that he could not tolerate people going about the world begging ’ ( 31 August 1778 ) .
6 ‘ Oh , Mum , ’ said Camille , cool with the confidence of the adolescent who knows that the rules of mortality , the risks inherent in living and going about the world , do not apply to her .
7 Romany mimed them going about the boat , looking here and looking there .
8 Going about the place telling everyone what a fine fellow you are does little to improve your image .
9 They left the hatch open , and we could hear them going about the barge , arguing with the bargemen .
10 That is the portrait of a don , a don in his supreme incarnation , a don going about the business that he was designed for by nature .
11 But , even assuming its feasibility , this would be a grossly stupid way of going about the business , reducing the whole delicate operation to a clumsy manipulation of crudely simplified formulae .
12 Hrun going about the business of being a hero , he realised , was quite different to the wine-bibbing , carousing Hrun who occasionally came to Ankh-Morpork .
13 He enjoyed the camaraderie of police life and spent several minutes going about the murder squad office , exchanging pleasantries with officers he did not know and catching up with the latest news .
14 ‘ He was last year about now but Easter 's late , I had n't thought on , and he 'll not move down until Palm Sunday like as not , and if he 's still over on the mountain he 'll be up Three Valleys Pass and that 's an hour and a half of a walk for him , going as the crow flies , but longer for us in the jeep because there 's no direct road — and then to get at him we 'd have to take a cart track that 'll be more like a river bed after yesterday 's rain .
15 I also kept my contacts and my work going during the golf season , even if I did it mostly by telephone .
16 Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then .
17 Costs were pruned , with 10 per cent of all jobs going during the year .
18 Friends came in for a drink and a snack and kept on coming and going for the rest of the day , which was useful as well as friendly because they brought their appetites with them , and most of the refreshments were disposed of .
19 It would keep me going for the afternoon , until I could heat up the rest of the chicken for supper .
20 The Doctor was n't going for the bait .
21 ‘ Out of every five or six guys going for the wave , three are bluffing . ’
22 Also going for the chart burn this time round are Army Of Lovers with a rumbling The Beloved-style mix of ‘ Obsession ’ .
23 I 'm going for the salad myself . ’
24 Bath are going for the championship
25 Going for the Sympathy Vote
26 Well I 'm going for the winter .
27 I was playing jackstones in the street when Nelly Mitchell ran up with the news that she was going for the midwife .
28 one team that is winning in 93 are the Milton Keynes Aces … they 're going for the Wheelchair Basketball championship … their latest win was over league leaders Oldham Owls … the Aces are now just one point off the top …
29 He was going for the green on the short par-4 .
30 I ask you : just twenty-one years old , leading the Open , six holes to go and he 's going for the green !
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