Example sentences of "going [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the front page was a story about an old man who had lain dead in his council flat for eighteen months until Gas Board workers had discovered him , a blurred photograph of some local women who were going somewhere in a body to protest about something and a larger picture of a council dignitary opening some sort of centre and looking pleased with himself . |
| 2 | This , like the argument about human progress , suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time . |
| 3 | The shares were coasting along at above 400p and looking like going better after a string of tipsters recommendations . |
| 4 | Paddlers are then faced with the choice of going upstream for a mile to Broomhill Bridge or downstream 3 miles to Grantown-on-Spey to lift out . |
| 5 | Our Dawn thinks she 's going just for a tea party when they to ask her to drink owt she just takes her time and drinks it . |
| 6 | erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ? |
| 7 | I told them I was n't going away without a leg . |
| 8 | Going away as a means of discovering what was really happening here , he wrote . |
| 9 | He 's probably going away for a long time , that 's why . |
| 10 | We 'll tell her we 're going away for a breather . ’ |
| 11 | Going away for a night they need a furniture van . |
| 12 | Sometimes it 's worth going away for a while and letting her think she 's beaten you , and then coming back with the food a few hours later . |
| 13 | He said hastily , ‘ I 'll be going away for a bit and I guess I 'll be ravenous when I get back . |
| 14 | I 'm going away for a while , give you time to pack your things . |
| 15 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd better tell me what you were doing , going away for a weekend with a married man , ’ he suggested quietly . |
| 17 | I knew she was unhappy about his going away for a whole weekend when she was too sick to accompany him . |
| 18 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |
| 19 | ‘ We 're only going away for a weekend , for heaven 's sake ! |
| 20 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 21 | Cos we 're only going away for a weekend then are n't we ? |
| 22 | Going away with a small child is easy — thanks to a variety of items from lightweight buggies to portable potties ! |
| 23 | ‘ I am going away with a nice feeling . |
| 24 | She had always been the sensible , down-to-earth twin , yet here she was , going away with a man she had only known for two days . |
| 25 | Goodey making a change for the benefit of the scheme members paying into a scheme , rather than employers going away in a contribution holiday . |
| 26 | She 's going away in a couple of weeks with the Brownies |
| 27 | yes , I should n't mind going away in a few weeks , if , if |
| 28 | They will find it extremely difficult going outside on a bright day and may see very little on a sunny day . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm going outside for a minute , ’ Oates said . |
| 30 | During a heated board meeting in June 1955 , Wally announced he was ‘ Going outside for a fag . |