Example sentences of "[conj] going " in BNC.
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| 1 | The field-worker was able to spend as much time in the field as the principal investigator thought necessary , and no restrictions were placed on her going out on patrol , travelling in vehicles , or going to incidents of routine police duty . |
| 2 | Sometimes she wants to do things on her own , but most times we do things together — you know , like going to the swimming baths or going shopping and stuff like that . |
| 3 | Too often the choice for the British filmmaker has seemed to lie between critical approval combined with minimal box office or going all-out to emphasize the most garish , flamboyant and parochial aspects of popular cinema . |
| 4 | They had lost weight by taking appetite suppressors , fasting or going on highly restrictive diets they could not sustain , avoiding all favourite foods . |
| 5 | Whether you are moving to another part of the country or going abroad let us know as soon as possible so that we can publicise details of your property to maximum effect . |
| 6 | Now , the next gig was weeks ahead at Earls Court in London and there was a choice of sailing round the Cape of Good Hope , going over the Khyber Pass or going on the Trans-Siberian Express . |
| 7 | You have the choice of either trying to minimise the effect or going with it and rejoicing in the exotic feel of a semi-desert in your back yard . |
| 8 | People who respond in this way have often had a difficult early life when they had separation forced upon them , maybe by a parent being hospitalized or going away or dying . |
| 9 | People are switching off , or going to the video shop , in droves . |
| 10 | ‘ I went to the afterguard and said our boats are not optimised or going as fast as I would like and asked for recommendations , ’ said Koch . |
| 11 | By ‘ transcendence ’ he simply meant surpassing or going beyond the limits of previous organization . |
| 12 | The last Advice I shall give you , relates to your Behaviour when you are going to be hanged ; which , either for robbing your Master , for House-breaking , or going upon the High-way , or in a drunken Quarrel , by killing the first Man you meet , may very probably be your Lot … |
| 13 | I do n't know whether I 'm coming or going . |
| 14 | Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother . |
| 15 | They suggest some of the typically simple pleasures of later life in the past , such as keeping parrots or pigeons , gardening or baking , playing dominoes , drinking a nightly glass of porter at home , or going out to gossip with old workmates . |
| 16 | Irina , in these days , was often out , shopping , or visiting Pat , or going to see Marcus 's solicitor , a Mr Garent , or simply wandering about London being ( to use her phrase ) a ‘ mystery woman ’ . |
| 17 | Are we fleeing from Nineveh and duty , or going where Love and Right beckon us ? |
| 18 | A daughter may start by doing the shopping or going to sit with them for a few hours . |
| 19 | This at least gives him the freedom to go out for air and to do errands such as visiting local shops or going to the hairdresser . |
| 20 | Maybe it made the difference between having lunch or going hungry . |
| 21 | The advantage is that there is no line , visible to the fish , coming from the bait , either on the surface or going down to the bottom . |
| 22 | Green is the ‘ go-ahead ’ code for the type of behaviour you want from your children , the actions you always remember to praise and encourage : sharing toys with another child , perhaps , or going to bed without a prolonged fuss . |
| 23 | Routines help a child to master daily tasks like feeding , washing or going to sleep , so that more can be achieved with less effort . |
| 24 | A. Each day , in the Mersey estuary , some twenty or thirty ships are arriving or going to sea . |
| 25 | Kreitman and Chowdhury ( 1973b ) found that the most common reason given for not getting in touch with a helping agency was that the overdose was seen as a way of relieving strain or going to sleep . |
| 26 | Green also records what his children have been doing by themselves — the girls visiting Keswick neighbours to drink tea , or going with their brothers on a journey to Kendal , or sometimes dining out , as when they visited Mr. James Fleming at Grasmere . |
| 27 | JUNIOR education minister William Shelton did not know whether he was coming or going last week when he gave an experimental communications system known as Project Universe its first public airing . |
| 28 | During the next three months Alexander spent all his hard-earned money visiting the theatre , art galleries or going to concerts . |
| 29 | There was one positive side for deaf people arising from the War : with so many men volunteering or going into the Armed Services , there was a desperate shortage of labour in the workplace , especially in munitions factories . |
| 30 | Although the family in the orthodox reader can not exist at all — there is no family so griefless , angerless , humourless , or so utterly devoid of conflict as the family in the orthodox reader — it is recognisable in externals … the detached house … father at leisure with the lawnmower ( or going to the office with the brief case ) , the large dog and the aristocratic cat , the tidy organised family consisting only of one father , one mother , one son , one daughter . |