Example sentences of "going [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 'm not sure , ’ he said in an oddly formal voice , ‘ but there were some fairly odd stories going the rounds about her . |
2 | That there are different ways of looking at such constitutional niceties is amusingly illustrated by a story S.E. Finer reports as once going the rounds of Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe : |
3 | There are plenty of glossy , expensive training packs going the rounds at the moment . |
4 | One story going the rounds in Havana recently has Fidel visiting his barber . |
5 | But only a hiatus at National Carriers caused by the closure of British Rail 's door-to-door parcels service in 1980 stopped NFC going the way of other privatisations — into the pockets of disinterested individuals and institutions . |
6 | TANK GIRL is now going the way of all great cult heroes , having been fought over hard for a film by Hollywood . |
7 | On the BBC 's Standing Room Only programme at 6.50 tonight , Newbon discusses the chances of an English club going the way of French team Paris St Germain , who were bought by Chanel Plus last year . |
8 | By all the rules of the market , Hewlett-Packard Co 's HP 3000 business computer family should be going the way of the Wang Laboratories Inc VS and the Nixdorf Computer AG 8870 , but in defiance of crude market logic , the machine is going from strength to strength , bolstered by the company 's relaxed approach to migration to Unix : because HP 3000 users know they can relatively painlessly convert to Unix any time they choose , the majority are happy to stay right where they are , and the company claims that its high-end HP 3000 system business actually grew more than 50% last year , and the much-derided Posix interface is actually enabling it to pick up applications from Unix . |
9 | IBM Corp last week took its first step towards saving the AS/400 from going the way of the mainframe when it accompanied the new F models with a string of software offerings and initiatives designed to make the machine sit more comfortably as a database server in an open systems environment . |
10 | The war was going the way of neither side . |
11 | Better that than going the way of Aldershot . ’ |
12 | As this review was going the House of Lords has permitted the citation of Hansard ; Mr Bennion will have to start on his next edition . |
13 | But we do keep going the wages for the crews are paid , the ships go for their refits , and in the Ingard group 's annual report the ships are shown as making quite a lot of money — more than we used to make in the old days . |
14 | Martin ( 1976 , p. 72 ) writes that village extensions in Hampshire and Cumbria were like ‘ a series of linked housing estates with the layouts encouraging a separate identity on each estate and going no way towards promoting a sense of ‘ community ’ between the newcomers and the established residents … ’ |
15 | After a time teaching in a Scottish school , Fettes , the degree got him a fellowship in mathematics at his own college of Magdalene ; where he remained the rest of his long life — teaching mathematics , holding various college offices , going every week to Emmanuel Congregational chapel , and becoming after a time one of its deacons or church officers . |
16 | After going a couple of hundred yards over open ground , the road entered very thick forest , and here I made the men walk in front while I brought up the rear . |
17 | but United still should have won … after going a goal down skipper Derek Hall pulled them level and on chances it was Hereford 's game … |
18 | These capital schemes , though extremely welcome , are only going a part of the way towards the complete overhaul of the majority of the fixed plant which is required within Wimpey Minerals . |
19 | I thought that was going a bit over the top ( laughs ) . |
20 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
21 | No , do n't you think that 's going a bit over the top ? |
22 | perhaps sh should n't suggest these things , but perhaps she 's going a bit off it or something . |
23 | I do think that the Minister is going a bit beyond the statement now . |