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How To Use Get going In A Sentence

  • When the going gets tough, the tough get going
  • She takes ages to get going, and you don't want to make her more snitchy than usual.
  • Yet the government plans to quadruple the amount of the aid budget going to CDC. Times, Sunday Times
  • Took a while to get going after being winded but exploded in the second half.
  • I guess I'd better get going.
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  • Feeling bored and tired of waiting for the train to get going we play throw and catch with a ball.
  • This lets the vehicle idle and then get going easily from a standing start.
  • If the players batting behind Sheffield really get going, the opposition will have to challenge him.
  • ‘Okay, let's get going now,’ Sterling urged as he went up to the wagoner's seat, ready to take off.
  • I have to get going - they're about to send out the campus monitors to enforce lights out.
  • Let's get going or they'll send out a search party .
  • Yesterday I was finding it a little hard to get going so I figured I'd finally mow the lawn, since the grass wasn't damp and I could hear many lawn mowers buzzing in the area, before settling down to the computer.
  • His writing career took a while to get going. Times, Sunday Times
  • We could have waited forever to try to get the cash absolutely right, but finally we decided to get going, even though the money side was far from sorted.
  • However we had to get going as I'd promised to pop into work briefly to check out my new laptop.
  • During the writing of The Ice Child, I would also get the eeriest feeling if I were late starting work any morning -- as if a lot of unseen people were willing me to get going. A Conversation with Elizabeth McGregor, author of The Ice Child
  • I feel they will have to get going early and set the pace - the best way to do that is to rattle in a goal or two to unsettle the tight defence.
  • I looked down at the tach and the thing was down 6500 rpm and had to get going again.
  • When the going gets tough, the tough get going
  • The period setting is perfect and the acting is faultless in most cases, but the plot is slow to get going and there's never a lot of action.
  • I was too slow to get going and this driver jumped out of his car and shoved me off my bike. Times, Sunday Times
  • Generally the action doesn't get going until after midnight.
  • Pietersen slogged him a couple of times but could not get going, his nascent test average thus dropped from 96 to only 70.
  • Suffice it to say that CBS needs to get going with the premium media delivery if wants to transition from "dabbler" status to something with a vested interest in tapping the social media space to full (est) effect. Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0
  • Now what about that shopping list? I've got to get going.
  • I was too slow to get going and this driver jumped out of his car and shoved me off my bike. Times, Sunday Times
  • The all-in-one designs proved easy to get going, simply plugging in the power cable and radio antennae. Times, Sunday Times
  • With the end of the trout and salmon season in sight, its time to get going on the pike.
  • I was too slow to get going and this driver jumped out of his car and shoved me off my bike. Times, Sunday Times
  • Get going!
  • Yet the government plans to quadruple the amount of the aid budget going to CDC. Times, Sunday Times
  • Having said that I am going to run a very vigorous campaign and I have a team of workers anxious to get going.
  • Daddy gotta get going, okay, sweet pea?
  • Let's get going or they'll send out a search party .
  • Indeed, many men without any history of criminal behavior now live literally under the gun—and I'm not even going to get going on domestic-violence restraining orders, whose legitimate purpose as originally conceived is now routinely abused to preordain custody decisions when no evidence of physical violence has been presented. Law's Quandary and Justice Scalia
  • They were sharp and deadly and able to cut off anything that the Sparks tried to get going on offense.
  • With that, I agreed and again walked away informing them that I needed to get going soon. EECB Against EZ Lube Gets $50 Returned To Hoodwinked Customer - The Consumerist
  • We only hear from the defeatists and the beaten, never from the get up and get going folks.
  • Though slow to get going, once established, hollies are low-maintenance plants that tolerate hard pruning if needed and can be clipped and trimmed to a specific shape.
  • Before we get going the next morning, we stop for a breakfast of beignets and café au lait at a joint called Coffee Call, which seems to be popular with senior citizens in tour buses.
  • Part owned by John Malkovich, the two-story lounge, disco and concert space doesn't really get going until about 2 a.m.; the party carries through until the sun rises over the Tejo, which you can watch from the rooftop. Take Monday Off: Lisbon
  • We get going early to beat the williwaws and are soon becalmed.
  • But it's 12.32 and I'm still undressed and can't get going.
  • I was a bit further up than last year, I think before I was in the back with the fatties and that made it hard to get going.
  • What a breathtakingly practical way of helping a downtrodden group get going after decades of oppression.
  • The all-in-one designs proved easy to get going, simply plugging in the power cable and radio antennae. Times, Sunday Times
  • When the going gets tough, the tough get going
  • You could do worse than get going on a plank challenge. The Sun
  • While the results to date haven't been financially thrilling, all it took me to get going was $1,000, which was reasonable.
  • The press conference on improving outreach and education in the cryosphere is great for lots of facts and figures about the frightening rate at which glaciers and sea ice are melting, and the wide ranging implications (it’s a little slow to get going, but worth it once the panelists start). 2009 April 23 | Serendipity
  • Without benefit of poles or much of a slope, I waggled my arms back and forth to get going.
  • Bird was unable to engage his gears, but managed to get going and finished at the back.
  • And they never turn off the bathroom light so if she is a habitual showerer ... get going. You Too Can be a Peeping Tom without Getting Caught by Brutus Maccabee
  • Stop at your best girl pal's place and get going with the gab.
  • He could have spent longer drinking in the Martian view, letting his eyes wander with relish over every rock and stone, every gulley and mound, every dune and hollow, but he knew that he had to get going. First Words
  • I have already dug out some Beja I had based but not undercoated for working on this weekend and I will get going on some more Highlanders too. Archive 2009-07-01
  • The all-in-one designs proved easy to get going, simply plugging in the power cable and radio antennae. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rusedski, still feeling the effects of more than three hours work on Friday, began to tire in the third and fourth sets while Murray took his time to get going.
  • I haven't based these figures yet, so I had better get going on this before I accumulate too many unbased figures. Archive 2008-01-01
  • Now what about that shopping list? I've got to get going.
  • On the way back, I could see the kite fest was starting to get going and the sky was beginning to fill with kites of all descriptions.
  • It is hard to get going again, hard to get the sails up and set them after the beatings we got.
  • I've got to get going, I'm a bit tuckered out from a rousing game of Bridge.
  • This could explain why chronic alcoholics often need an early morning drink just to get going.
  • Only with the truly exciting transformation scene concluding Act 1 does the show finally get going.
  • You just need a little help, a push, gentle nudge, kick in the butt to get going.
  • While these measures get going, elderly ambulant men and women should try to get some exposure to sunlight every day if possible, and all those in nursing homes should be considered for vitamin D treatment.
  • Stop wasting your time posting to this site and get going on ridding your Windoze clone of spyware and viruses.
  • Then the liberal boofheads get going with their moralising puke, and many people end up sympathising with the guilty star.
  • Oh, gosh, but it was hard to get going when I woke this morning.
  • The all-in-one designs proved easy to get going, simply plugging in the power cable and radio antennae. Times, Sunday Times
  • I guess I'd better get going.

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