Example sentences of "[adv] be going [adv] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I suppose I 'd better be going then . ’
2 Duncan looked at his wrist watch , and rising to his feet said , ‘ I had better be going now , Piper .
3 Liese said , ‘ I 'd better be going now .
4 We 'd better be going now . ’
5 Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States .
6 Morland says most of its tenants are meeting the sales targets but those landlords faced with fines say the lights on their pubs could soon be going out for good ..
7 Because the light would just be going off into nothing and not coming back .
8 I realised I 'd be doing the eating so it would n't exactly be going up to heaven in a cloud of smoke , but as CJ says , it 's the thought …
9 Richard Baylis , defending , said his client admitted smoking heroin in the past but had told him he would not be going near it again .
10 Nevertheless there was also quite a number of people who felt strongly that we should not be going ahead .
11 ‘ I did not know the Bioplan hospital might not be going ahead , ’ said Mr Prescott , ‘ If the Darlington health authority can not get hold of a CT Scanner from Bioplan then we will seriously consider getting one . ’
12 Things could not be going better .
13 It meant that Meredith Putt would not be going anywhere before the return of Superintending Constable Giles Aplin — and he would not come seeking Seb because of what he had witnessed on Handley Plain .
14 She would not be going home tonight .
15 She became worried when she realized the workers were still dancing wildly and would not be going home soon .
16 ‘ We have our valuation of the player , County have theirs and the matter will not be going any further . ’
17 Indeed , it may not be going too far to say that without J. G. Crowther New Scientist would not be here , certainly not in its present form .
18 ‘ Things might not be going too well in the League for them — but strange things have happened in Cup matches . ’
19 It may not be going too far to suggest that Laski was the primary conduit through which early twentieth-century developments in American legal thought were filtered into British public law thought .
20 Now though it is all very secure for me so I will not be going back , ’ she said .
21 ‘ No , ’ she said , ‘ I shall not be going back with you .
22 Because he lost sight of me quickly , he knew that I could not be going down to the river or turning left into the church : he had an uninterrupted view of both .
23 So that if everyone if if people who wrote the dictionaries did n't know people 'd still be going round thinking that everyone said fore head or break fast .
24 The tartan rugs from Waddells would still be going today I imagine .
25 At his pub , deluded O'Rourke insisted last week that Lifeboys could still be going ahead .
26 No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 .
27 No one could have predicted then that the unrest in the West Bank and Gaza Strip would still be going on two years later , so Mr Rabin was playing fairly safe when he said in a brief interview at the end of Wednesday 's programme that the uprising would probably continue well into 1990 .
28 A long drawn-out sound would still be going on when the echo returned , and , even if partially muffled by send/receive muscles , would get in the way of detecting the echo .
29 Yes , but you 'll also be going outside , yes
30 But one of the most persistent and pernicious myths we 've inherited from Descartes is that mentality is essentially conscious , so that anything we ca n't introspect ca n't really be going on in our mind .
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