Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] going [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 as I was going with the fourth year
2 The next day I was told to pack my stuff up because I was going on the other side [ to another wing ] .
3 Well , sorry Jack , I was going on the previous figures which
4 I was going through the death-registry books in the cartrio civil of Bom Jesus da Mata , a market town in the sugar-plantation region of Pernambuco in the Brazilian North-East .
5 I got to , when I was going to the little school I got told the little ones .
6 So then about a week later I was going to the open evening and he said oh ask him how he remembers .
7 I thought you were going through the fucking the bollard !
8 That shop you were going at the cheapest one .
9 Ah yes , I ask you about those , erm cos we did say at one time that we thought some of you were going to the half yearly Council meeting and pick them up there .
10 I think , you know , you , you were going down the right track , you 've got ta be really .
11 The following morning , accompanied at Aunt Emily 's command by a trembling Lyddy who was sure she was going to the very mouth of Hades , Alexandra was driven out to Trelorne , dressed very much as she had been when she trespassed along the shore .
12 So she was going to the opposite direction actually , and I insisted that I do n't want to take her that long she would have to walk back again .
13 She was going on the overnight train so that she could read the Children 's Act of Scotland en route .
14 She was going in the opposite direction this time .
15 The leave-taking this time was formal , bearing none of the displays of emotion that had marked Prince Richard 's departure — the queen-dowager was but bidding farewell , it was thought , to her son 's bride , a young lady who was going to the royal palace within the Tower to keep company for a time with her husband .
16 The erm election note 's up , I mean it , we were going through the local candidates through you know when the important dates are ?
17 As they came close we watched as they demonstrated the subtle science of reading the often obscure words of the hymn and seeing where they were going at the same time .
18 Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of .
19 They said they were going to the local pub for a meal if I 'd like to join them .
20 And they always travelled separately , even when they were going to the same function .
21 And they were going in the next morning , oh they 'd phoned up they 'd cancelled .
22 Yes , an and what really upset the erm the , the members of the scheme and the pensioners was the fact that the money was going to actually erm fund the redundancy per programme er for the business and was going to the benefit of the employees and none of it was going to the actual pensioners .
23 I think it was going to the extreme heat and damp down in , you know whether it was cold in .
24 er , first of all I would put it to my divisional board to my colleagues to ask for their thoughts and their advice erm , if they rejected it then it would n't go any further , if they approved it then it , because it was a budgetary item rather than just we can go out and spend it tomorrow , it was going into the following years budget , it would then go to the P L C board and they would have final say in whether that element should go into the , into next years budget
25 ‘ As soon as it left my foot , it was going into the top corner , rising all the time . ’
26 After university it was announced that he was going into the armed forces .
27 He was going into the unknown .
28 And he gets up and sees the situation and remember , he said , Jesus was n't out for joy ride , he was n't just passing an evening relaxing and unwinding and resting away from the crowd , he had gone into the boat for a purpose , he was going to the other side , and no storm was gon na stop him getting there !
29 Instead , he announced that he was going to the United Nations in New York to appeal for peace , and that in accordance with the Council 's wishes he would establish the long-awaited synod of bishops .
30 He announced that he was going to the Blighted Isle .
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