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

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1 On the following page we read that ‘ things were going badly ’ for Neto .
2 She liked to go for walks and when things were going badly between herself and Simon she used to go out on her own a lot .
3 He and his Ibiza neighbour , Keke Rosberg , were both fed up with the sport , and things were going badly for both of them .
4 This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted .
5 erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ?
6 yeah cos Derek were going backwards when we went round the corner were n't we ?
7 If you were going somewhere new on holiday in the car , would you :
8 ‘ He said it was because the seams looked as if they were going somewhere … ’
9 And there was an instance a few years ago I think where they were going somewhere in Glasgow and a toilet was put in
10 On the front page was a story about an old man who had lain dead in his council flat for eighteen months until Gas Board workers had discovered him , a blurred photograph of some local women who were going somewhere in a body to protest about something and a larger picture of a council dignitary opening some sort of centre and looking pleased with himself .
11 I think they were going somewhere to Ireland , I 'm not sure , but they had a load of of slates .
12 Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again .
13 Cos he were going somewhere with David when you over .
14 Eve , would you say you were going somewhere ?
15 And we met this gi I do n't think these two were going to Birmingham university but they were going somewhere .
16 They were going inland , behind the little fishing village of Rock , towards Wadebridge , past little green cushions of fields and hedges of tamarisk and white cottages with blue slate roofs and windows made tiny against the weather .
17 But Niki 's tyres were going fast : worn by all his attempts to get past Tambay .
18 Mind you , if you were on the top floor , you would n't think your clocks up there were going fast .
19 My Lord the er plaintiff 's case is that as a result of the advice that he was given by Mr er it was clear to him that he had no way out of this contract , that he was committed to it and that he had no choice but to proceed with the matter and there was then er further discussion on the telephone on this day , Friday , between Mr and Mr to where they were going here and Mr said he would now write to the plaintiff setting out what his options were to him and the letter than was sent by Mr was dated the twenty second of October and the letter , the relevant terms of this letter are set out in a statement of claim expressing at paragraph three eleven of this statement saying and of course er that is admitted by the er defendant .
20 Jim got fed-up coming home , weary and sensing that things were going increasingly wrong , to find the women talking late into the night , ignoring him , even asking him to go away , to go to his own room , to mind his own business .
21 They thought that we were going straight , we and we thought so too that we would just go straight over the , through London .
22 It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it .
23 Oh I thought you meant you were going straight to do the papers .
24 And , she says , because if your light ha had n't of been on she were going straight home .
25 I thought you were going straight up to see if the actually , I was going to get up early and
26 They were going slowly , too , and looked very tired .
27 Before the Palm Springs meeting , trade talks between Japan and America were going nowhere .
28 What with that and a few crazy reports to him about my off-duty life-style flying about he decided United and me were going nowhere together .
29 Lowe knew the sects and the papers they churned out were going nowhere .
30 I got very depressed — there was no particular reason , just a lowering of spirits as I realized again that , for the foreseeable future , we were going nowhere .
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