Example sentences of "[pron] was go [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased . |
| 2 | let's go for it er but there I was going much slower and there was all this thoughts going on in my head and |
| 3 | He thought she meant she was going straight home and drove off with a sulky smile . |
| 4 | She was going very slowly and breathing heavily in her resolve that not a drop of whisky should be spilled . |
| 5 | On to the last day and Nicklaus — who was putting in a charge in front of us attempting the third part of the grand slam , having won the Masters and the US Open in 1972 — and everything was going reasonably well until the 7th , the hare hole . |
| 6 | He 'd come out here to try to make trouble over her work , but luckily everything was going so well that he 'd find that difficult . |
| 7 | The following day she felt that everything was going very slowly and by the next day she felt that she was back to normal . |
| 8 | For a second she imagined that she detected a bleary look within his own eyes — and she knew it must match her own — but then it was gone as fast as summer lightning and she shivered beneath the old familiar expression , that brooding , storm-filled one that she knew boded no good to her . |
| 9 | She tossed her head defiantly , and just for a moment saw a flicker of something in his eyes before it was gone so fast that she knew she must have imagined it . |
| 10 | It was going very fast and it made a lot of noise . |
| 11 | Yes , I think that we could actually kill as it were two birds with one stone here er , the conversion of military industry into civilian industry has begun in the Soviet Union but it was going very slowly and part of the reason for that is , is it 's very expensive , now that seems to me a worthy recipient for Western direct economic aid . |
| 12 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 13 | But Mr Lawson must have known that the timing of his words meant he was going much further than that . |