Example sentences of "[was/were] going [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 2 | You said yesterday you were going along with the Irish |
| 3 | Dej and his colleagues did not want to remain the poor peasant cousins of the other Communist states which were going off along the high road to communism . |
| 4 | ‘ If things were going smoothly between the two of you then I doubt you would be here now , but they 're not , are they ? ’ |
| 5 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 6 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 7 | I was able to meet some of the leading Indian academic figures in English and Linguistics , and at the same time to find out what was going on at the lower levels of teaching in Universities and affiliated Colleges . |
| 8 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 9 | We have an excellent reputation in Oxfordshire as an Education Authority erm and a reputation which extends around the country , so I do see it as a vote of confidence , and I am very pleased about it , but I do think that the whole exercise was somewhat premature in the light of the erm research and investigation that was going on into the tertiary college , and indeed the consulting process actually ran through at the same time as the campaign was running on whether the Banbury School should opt out , and erm regrettably I think has lost something as a result of having the two run together . |
| 10 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 11 | I mean when he er you know when that thing was going on about the old ? |
| 12 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 13 | Was n't that implicit in whatever it was which was going on between the two of them ? |
| 14 | The global data structure , the Chart , would provide an easily accessible record of what exactly was going on between the different components . |
| 15 | Held at the delightfully seedy SW1 Club in Victoria , much of the action was going on in the partitioned-off VIP enclosure . |
| 16 | She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal . |
| 17 | The real tussle was going on within the fourth dimension itself — the dimension of time — between ITN and BBC . |
| 18 | Had she sensed that anything was going on beneath the conventional exchange ? |
| 19 | I just stood and stared for a few moments amid all the activity that was going on around the wounded Lovat . |
| 20 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 21 | The war was going well for the galactic empire . |
| 22 | And it was going downhill over the hard packed snow which was the worst bit , with me acting as a brake , hauling on a rope to keep the sledge from running forward into the horse 's heels . |
| 23 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 24 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 25 | It should have been a warning to me when I noticed that none of the other foreigners was going anywhere near the wicker-basket toboggans , each with two dapper attendants . |
| 26 | He was going back into the National Health Service and had taken a consultancy in a drug dependency unit based at the Lurie Foundation Hospital for Dipsomaniacs on Hampstead Road . |
| 27 | Grand Met was going directly to the new format , but analysts were still working on the old style p&l accounts . |
| 28 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 29 | Cos I was going out in the fresh air , I 'm alright when I 'm out in the fresh air . |
| 30 | ‘ He was going quietly about the important business of searching for insects and worms when this great big foot came along and almost trod on him . |