Example sentences of "going about the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two further points are of importance in going about the budgeting process . |
| 2 | The simplest way of getting an answer is to show the advertisement to a number of individuals selected from the target group , or to a group of them , and to get a discussion going about the ad . |
| 3 | ‘ I remember him going about the village , collecting the details , the birth certificates and things . |
| 4 | Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs . |
| 5 | Leopold related the news , and the Archbishop 's excuse for not having allowed father and son to travel the previous year : ‘ he said that he could not tolerate people going about the world begging ’ ( 31 August 1778 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , Mum , ’ said Camille , cool with the confidence of the adolescent who knows that the rules of mortality , the risks inherent in living and going about the world , do not apply to her . |
| 7 | Romany mimed them going about the boat , looking here and looking there . |
| 8 | Going about the place telling everyone what a fine fellow you are does little to improve your image . |
| 9 | They left the hatch open , and we could hear them going about the barge , arguing with the bargemen . |
| 10 | That is the portrait of a don , a don in his supreme incarnation , a don going about the business that he was designed for by nature . |
| 11 | But , even assuming its feasibility , this would be a grossly stupid way of going about the business , reducing the whole delicate operation to a clumsy manipulation of crudely simplified formulae . |
| 12 | Hrun going about the business of being a hero , he realised , was quite different to the wine-bibbing , carousing Hrun who occasionally came to Ankh-Morpork . |
| 13 | He enjoyed the camaraderie of police life and spent several minutes going about the murder squad office , exchanging pleasantries with officers he did not know and catching up with the latest news . |