Example sentences of "going [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 He and his Ibiza neighbour , Keke Rosberg , were both fed up with the sport , and things were going badly for both of them .
2 Everything seemed to be going right in both families .
3 But it 's no good going on to that until you 're really pretty good at this then you should be able to follow what 's going on here .
4 But I thought that er with coming off that , Malcolm was going on to that .
5 and it goes through their , for the rest of their twenties , the rest of their thirties and most of their forties and then suddenly bang maybe something ghastly seems to be happening which they are absolutely unaware of , you know , they do n't know why they are crying or , or er unable to cope with whatever they ca n't cope with and that 's it , that 's them off and they start worrying about er osteoporosis and you know an enormous number of , of now medically defined problems of the menopause , and they may start going on to all sorts of things like hormone replacement therapy or even primrose oil or whatever the hell and they 're sitting there at an age when they are fairly loaded up with experience and maturity and all the rest of it and they do n't know what they are doing .
6 No because what 's stopping it from going on to any erm what 's stopping it from becoming capitalist and
7 Such a class of behaviours includes going on to another task of a kind similar to that assigned by the teacher at one level and exploratory behaviour at a ‘ higher ’ level .
8 Despite this perceived impotence , a majority of teachers are in favour of going on to another round of reviews and reports .
9 The court heard that Nichol then drove her home before going on to another girlfriend , Leoni Hogg , whom he had previously lived with .
10 He affects a certain disinterest in theory , preferring extremely precise experiments that will pick up whatever is going on to those designed with a particular new discovery in mind .
11 They can , it is suggested , " by voting 1 , 2 , 3 … for candidates of Party A and then going on to those of Party B … show that they consider these parties have much in common and should work together " .
12 In the latter , emphasis was placed on practical skills such as technical drawing and woodwork , with some pupils going on to some form of technical college but with most leaving at 15 years of age and few if any achieving university entrance .
13 Although this written account is extremely tenuous , patient archaeological excavations that have been going on for many years on Santorin are beginning to reveal a story to rival that of Pompeii .
14 Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just .
15 Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years .
16 But trying to classify and understand them will show you a good deal about what is going on for that child .
17 The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century .
18 The strike , in support of a suspended colleague , has been going on for more than a week .
19 Gateshead Family Health Service 's Authority admitted it had known what was going on for more than a year , but action was taken only after a patient contacted them .
20 And it 's still going on for another season .
21 Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment .
22 The process has been going on for some time .
23 The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning .
24 A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months .
25 Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved .
26 These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe .
27 I hear his couchée going on for some time .
28 My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round .
29 The argument had been going on for some time .
30 The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it .
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