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Examples
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Starting in with our quarry, I just kept a-going till I got them all.
Chapter XVI 2010
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Got the radio a-going good and tuned to a country show.
Wounded Knee Jason W. Stuart 2011
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And you-all adds up all your money and knows you ain't a-going to die if you can help it.
Chapter IV 2010
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"What d'ye mean, you yellow-faced heathen, lying here in a fairway without a horn a-going?"
YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010
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What is your Muse about? will not this delightful season set you a-going again?
Letter 237 2009
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I believe no man in this country but himself could have kept the money machine a-going.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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I believe no man in this country but himself could have kept the money machine a-going.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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He then gave Camilla three guineas to deliver to them from himself, to set them a little a-going in an honest way, that they might not, he said, repent leaving off bad actions.
Camilla 2008
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BIG papers need to be finished, spring cleaning needs to continue and the family a-go-go is a-going on a weekend trip to the forest!
Archive 2008-04-01 jek-a-go-go 2008
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On the way said Arthur: Brethren, this meseemeth is but a-going on with the shows which were played us on the water as we came hither; but whether she doth this but for to mock and torment us, or that she would beguile us into deeming that our friends are verily here, I wot not; but tomorrow, meseemeth, I shall can to tell you.
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