Example sentences of "going [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A huge octopus , octopus -ish , had these massive tentacles that 's going right the way across the ceiling !
2 Very easy to simply turn into this lane instead of going right the way over to the other side .
3 Paul battered John after going on a night of ‘ louting ’ .
4 I do n't suggest that I think I should keep going on a year by year basis .
5 A load of schoolchildren going on a day out .
6 I thought we were going on a bit .
7 Well if you rung you could always say oh I 'll have to go cos somebody at the door if she starts going on a bit long .
8 like he does n't know if he 's going on a bit at the moment , he 's just wandering about ,
9 We 're all going on a Summer holiday for a week or two me and you
10 Mother , who was two or three years older , used to worry herself sick about the way he toiled , going on every hour sent in all weathers , and not stopping to change into dry clothes when the weather was wet .
11 All other things which are done instead of talking are a waste of time , are being used as excuses to delay the whole process , and will bear no fruit whatsoever , except the killing which is going on every day
12 With activities going on every day and most evenings we hardly ever saw our two .
13 If you 're thinking of going along to join in the fun , there 's something going on every day and evening until next Friday night .
14 Well it 's just the thing to keep the operators going on the night shift .
15 They also liked it — as did the other villages — for the spiteful inter-village competitiveness that lay under the seemingly innocent accounts of the Snead Women 's Institute going on an Easter outing to Weston-super-Mare , while the Quindale branch could only muster a local dried-flower expert whose crisp and solid arrangements , adorned with bows of florist 's ribbon , they could all have recognized in their sleep .
16 Mind you , his movie career is going downhill a bit .
17 Long before going solo the student should have learned the mnemonic by heart .
18 See , just keep going so the flint 's gone .
19 ‘ Their minds are like trains going along a track which here and there has a broken connection , ’ said the nurse .
20 I mean , and we were going down every day to see her when she was
21 like , you know what I was like , all through school and me A levels I was still going down every day and everything
22 You 've just forced yourself into a cab , which is going down a London street at eight o'clock at night . ’
23 Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work .
24 TOLLY beer from Suffolk is going down a storm among the wine drinkers of Italy.And ale from Tolly 's Cliff Brewery in Ipswich could soon be wetting the whistles of beer-lovers in Canada , Germany , Holland and France.Tolly bosses are celebrating after exporting 1,200 cases of their special Year Beer , Cantab , to Italy — and they have received inquiries from four other countries.Brian Cowie , Tolly 's joint managing director , said interest from abroad had initially come since the brewery 's name had been publicised on BBC television 's recent Troubleshooter programme .
25 Not surprisingly , the predominant trend trait is a taste for extrovert , over-the-top dressing , with glittery glam clothes going down a storm for evening , and hyper-smart executive-look suits being snapped up for daytime wear .
26 He said nothing more , and his silence played across her taut nerves like a fingernail going down a blackboard .
27 ‘ You take the kid 's word and you 're going down a tunnel , might be a wrong-way tunnel , ’ Nick said .
28 No , no C and B this time , we 're going down a bit , it 's in your left hand
29 GUINNESS is going down a treat in Sweden — at £5.50 a pint .
30 It seems to be going down a treat .
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