Example sentences of "going [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 2 | KEYS : ‘ But it is not just a question of what is going on on the park , it 's what 's happening elsewhere that we 're beginning to hear and read about and that 's never been the case at Liverpool previously , ever . |
| 3 | I get the impression that the disappearance last year of Sounds and Record Mirror caused more than a slight fluttering in the dovecote and that the paper has since tended to concentrate more on This Week 's Sensation and less on the diverting things going on on the fringe . |
| 4 | In idle moments or when there is not a lot going on on the dump , they fly across to annoy the birds on the pools . |
| 5 | Judging from the excitement going on on the jetty . ’ |
| 6 | Sara went to the top of the spiral staircase and crouched , listening to the argument going on on the floor below . |
| 7 | If I had n't insisted on you going along on the drop we would have absolutely no proof that it had ever taken place ! |
| 8 | it 's not as if there 's anywhere where you can hire a bike I 'm sure you know , but , I suppose you 're going along on the road , across the road I |
| 9 | ‘ It was n't worth going down on the off-chance , or so I thought . |
| 10 | Or , for instance , the floating roadway where traffic was going down on the barges to go across the river , it would be well worth any particular company to have a word with the officer on the floating roadway to let their vehicles through first . |
| 11 | But i it depends Terry with everybody 's going down on the urgent work ones which is putting the normal service |
| 12 | And er then they started blacklegs and when they started the rest of the firms all came as well then and I remember er going down on the picket lines and er they 'd be all the members there . |
| 13 | We thought about going down on the saturday and staying at Great Yarmouth and then driving to the match . |
| 14 | This is going down on the table . |
| 15 | The section then dived down to attack , Yellow I ( Jeffries ) going in on the starboard quarter and I dived down and made a quarter-astern attack from below , opening fire at 400 yards and closing to 50 yards , giving the e/a three bursts of three seconds each . |
| 16 | And also I 'm going in on the fourteenth of July , er in to have my knee washed out on the fourteenth of July . |
| 17 | It is easy to become disheartened if the dace fail to respond after an hour or so , but stick at it , keeping the feed going in on the same line . |
| 18 | He was unseated by a young health promotions officer , Des Lowry , for the SDLP who gained first preference votes of 753 , just seven short of the quota , with sitting SDLP councillor Barry Doherty going through on the first count . |
| 19 | The tread is most unusual , having slightly raised areas to correct any tendency to pronation or supination ( going over on the inside of your heel or the outside of your toes . ) |
| 20 | But said that they went on Tuesday evening they had some people over and they were looking we were gon na go for a meal in Chorley er they 'd come over from Grantham , and they were going over on the night on the night ferry , on night boat from Hollyhead . |
| 21 | Oh no , look buns are going off on the floor everywhere ! |
| 22 | so I 'm going off on the Mo on the Tuesday still be knackered after the |
| 23 | It 's large a low level route , sticking to valley bottoms and passes rather to going up on the fells . |
| 24 | ‘ Why , going up on the beam instead of you . ’ |
| 25 | Go left , down , right , then fall down , push the crate onto the button and go up on the lift , then left along the lower platform , push the crate left onto the switch , fall down , then go up on the lift , collect the speaker , fall down , go right and up on the lift , go left along the top platform , go up and left , go up on the lift , and continue going up on the platforms . |
| 26 | It led to a hallway , with stairs going up on the left . |
| 27 | I mean , you could see it going up on the hill above you . |
| 28 | The women had got into the way of going up on the deck every evening . |
| 29 | That well Lil and Nev going up on the mini break |
| 30 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |