Example sentences of "going [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh aye , I said to John I said well I say well how far we 're going cos I 'm not keen on going right a long way |
| 2 | Slowly , creakily , he talked , like a cart pulled by a wise old horse going along a rough road . |
| 3 | We were sitting on water , going down a great , deep stream , and then I realized we were on a board — like that board in the field — all white and covered with black lines . |
| 4 | So if you put a big heavy engine going down a cast iron railway which wo n't |
| 5 | Going down a sporting memory lane has enticed some 16 million people to pay their cable-TV charge to watch the fight . |
| 6 | sort of going just a short way along and having to reverse back out again |
| 7 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
| 8 | Only time and a falling tide prevented him from going up a nearby church tower and filming us again . |
| 9 | A car going up a dead end at speed was ‘ going nowhere fast ’ ; a ‘ cock and bull story ’ was more often , in his opinion , a ‘ hen and cow story ’ . |
| 10 | Er I think I think probably they they 're going up a little bit later so |
| 11 | One electric lamp the others all be the the butty would have the electric lamp , and he 'd also carry an oil lamp for testing for gas , and er I can remember going nearly a whole shift having to carry this lamp right down on the floor , carry it up into the heading you see ? |
| 12 | Are we going out a third time ? |
| 13 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
| 14 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |
| 15 | They 've discovered we 're the oldest family in the whole county , going back a long way ! |
| 16 | Yeah good old laugh , I remember my scout motto , I promise that I 'll do my best and do my duties its going back a long , long way brother . |
| 17 | well that 's going back a long time , is n't it ? |
| 18 | It was like going back a hundred years . |
| 19 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 20 | Going back a few years , Treasure Hunting , January 1983 issue , contains an article concerning a button that had been found , and requested information on the unit mentioned . |
| 21 | Let me just show you what it says , just get it straight , right that 's the service analysis for September nineteen ninety-two , alright so we 're going back a few months . |
| 22 | Oh yes you 're going back a few years ! |
| 23 | Oh I , I , I , I 'd one you know , oh I 'd one up , oh I 'm going back a few years now |
| 24 | but that was an old woman 's tale really , that 's going back a few years ago |
| 25 | Going back a further generation , her sire 's parents both scored under 12 . |
| 26 | Our most controversial cover last year showed a photograph of a red car going around a Swiss hairpin , with the headline ‘ Ford 's new Escort meets its rivals ’ , and then , underlined in red , ‘ … and loses ’ . |
| 27 | Noel Wilson 's chance on Flap Jack looked dim with two to jump in the Bramham Moor 's Restricted , with G Derek still going strongly a dozen lengths ahead . |
| 28 | It must be able to run full-tilt down any of its tracks , anticipating every hazard on the surface that might trip it up and leaning into familiar bends like an experienced racing driver going round a well-practised circuit . |