Example sentences of "going [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Even when there was not a conflict of jurisdiction , there would often be much coming and going between the courts to ensure that the various aspects of a complex case were handled in unison ( see pp. 414 f . ) . |
2 | Two further points are of importance in going about the budgeting process . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ I remember him going about the village , collecting the details , the birth certificates and things . |
5 | Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs . |
6 | 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 ) . |
7 | ‘ 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 . |
8 | Romany mimed them going about the boat , looking here and looking there . |
9 | Going about the place telling everyone what a fine fellow you are does little to improve your image . |
10 | They left the hatch open , and we could hear them going about the barge , arguing with the bargemen . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | cos I 'm going as a favour to give her a lift really . |
16 | You 're going as a pot . ’ |
17 | A mammal or bird of given weight in a temperate climate requires between three and seven times as much food to keep going as a reptile of similar weight . |
18 | Namely , by going as a tight-head with , as previously noted , the important additional credential of a proven ability to pack acceptably on either side of the scrum tunnel . |
19 | I think Dunbar has seats for next week and we were all going as a party , but I sha n't go with them now . |
20 | They are , for example , going as a group to the US next week to do just that . |
21 | But if you do want to ski , you can start thinking about where to go — especially if you 're going as a family . |
22 | The important technique , which keeps you going as an automaton until interest and desire take over , and concentration sharpens to a fine point , is that of having a rigorous time-table of study laid down in advance . |
23 | ‘ 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 . |
24 | I also kept my contacts and my work going during the golf season , even if I did it mostly by telephone . |
25 | Well you must have been going during the day while I was at work then . |
26 | Costs were pruned , with 10 per cent of all jobs going during the year . |
27 | He can approach them with a devil-may-care swashbuckling attitude , hitting every shot flat-out , going for every putt and disregarding the historical precedents . |
28 | And , oh I did n't tell you this either that she was going for a promotion ! |
29 | In ‘ Going For a Song ’ … . |
30 | There 's this picturesque white elephant development on the Costa del Sol , apparently going for a song . |