Example sentences of "[was/were] going [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The preparations for The Human Angle , Dyson discovered , were going forward in a room on the first floor furnished with a sea-blue fitted carpet , a number of discreetly abstract paintings , and a walnut sideboard . |
| 3 | I think the army thought they were going in to a situation where they could they could help , they saw themselves if you like as the referees er as a neutral party in between two sides . |
| 4 | They were going out for a west end meal in the evening . |
| 5 | Good companies as well as bad were going under as a result of falling markets and bad debts , said BCC policy director Richard Brown . |
| 6 | Her son and daughter who cared for her were going abroad for a fortnight 's holiday . |
| 7 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 8 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 9 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
| 10 | Anyone who imagines that a British Chancellor of the Exchequer could , wholly independently , determine interest rates here without considering what was going on in a Europe with a single currency , with all the other member countries belonging to it , is totally wrong . |
| 11 | She saw what was going on from a school bus . |
| 12 | He had left Marler in the bar , saying he was going upstairs for a shower . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the stock market was dominated by the fireworks display at ICI , which finally announced it was going ahead with a demerger . |
| 14 | It is a replacement , we were losing that money erm because the , the water meter was going round at a pound an hour . |
| 15 | And it 's seventy degrees out there in the winter , well I was going round in a T-shirt , they all thought I was mad . |
| 16 | Oh Christ , there he was going round in a circle again . |
| 17 | By the time I was eight-years-old I was going around with a prostitute . |
| 18 | So that was going alright for a while . |
| 19 | Between Czecho and Hungary , he decided he was going off for a couple of days . |
| 20 | Occasionally with him she had the sense she was going down through a hole in the floor . |
| 21 | Madeleine said she did n't mind , but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil . |
| 22 | He went back into the flat , grabbed his coat , told an astonished Frau Nordern that he was going out for a moment and , without waiting for any protests , dashed out and joined Bodo at the foot of the stairs . |
| 23 | She 'd told her husband she was going out for a walk with their pet dog , Kirsty , when she was found the dog was still clinging to her . |
| 24 | During the previous weeks there had been fine weather , and after a day in the office Paul would keep his mother company in the evenings for a little while , then , as they had nothing to say to one another , he would tell her he was going out for a breath of air . |
| 25 | Here I am eighteen years old , and in a great state of elation because I was going out with a boy . |
| 26 | My mother says he did n't train enough because he was going out with a girl called Ticky Hinton . |
| 27 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 28 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 29 | She was going out to a party , I got a bucket of water , threw it over her head ! |
| 30 | She was going out to a party . |