Example sentences of "he [verb] going " in BNC.
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| 1 | He avoided going to the prize-giving so that he would n't have to meet her . |
| 2 | Since for most of his reign he avoided going to war , he hardly deserves the reputation for belligerence which contemporaries conferred on him . |
| 3 | His voice was foggy and droning , and , once he got going , would not cease for hours unless drastic action was taken . |
| 4 | Mrs Frizzell looked a bit doubtful , and then said yes , he was , especially when he got going . |
| 5 | You 're right , are n't you Yes , once he got going , I knew why I 'd been holding back . |
| 6 | He admitted going equipped for theft , another burglary and asked for four similar offences to be taken into consideration . |
| 7 | He tried different approaches : he tried going out with John ; talking with him ; sitting with him ; even designing a game for him based on football which the student knew interested John . |
| 8 | Although he found going freelance ‘ hard at times ’ , he has far outstripped his NME reputation . |
| 9 | He said to the Thing : ‘ And do you know how much time we have before he starts going to Florida ? ’ |
| 10 | And he starts going oh oxy oxy methane , and he stamps his feet ! |
| 11 | when he starts going , you think I 've jumped |
| 12 | and he starts going yes well I think we 'd better try and get a few As on there had n't we and |
| 13 | Er he mentioned going to Leicester . |
| 14 | Actually there 's Paul , the guy who 'd given me a lift to the concert and , and he mentioned going to the , the film I saw , erm but I knew he was going to the pub , he always goes to the pub afterwards . |
| 15 | He delayed going upstairs for as long as possible , partly in a hopeless pretense of getting the papers finished with , and partly to avoid Sara . |
| 16 | Why does he like going early ? |
| 17 | Fr Cunningham was born in India and went to school in the North-East , where a priest suggested he consider going into the ministry . |
| 18 | Just , well he fancies going to bed ! |
| 19 | Never again did he remember going at anything with such concentration . |
| 20 | Young Gilbey 's passion was cars and he skipped going to university to move to the bright lights of London . |
| 21 | ‘ He hated going on the river at all . |
| 22 | In charge will be Mark Potter who made a hash of Cowley Steps during the Exe Descent but is likely to be more efficient when he gets going on the inevitable canoeing aspects of the centre . |
| 23 | He gets going quickly . |
| 24 | He 's brilliant when he gets going like this . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm pretty sure he 's free this morning , and he 's a wonderfully interesting man once he gets going . ’ |
| 26 | he gets going like |
| 27 | He is fast quick off the mark when he gets going |
| 28 | When her complaints got too much for him , he began going to pubs and picking up women . |
| 29 | ‘ He keeps going on about ‘ grey cells ’ . ’ |
| 30 | He 's learning to row a coracle but he keeps going round in circles , it must be tiresome for him when he 's used to going in straight lines . |