Example sentences of "[was/were] going [adv] in 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 | Next we went to see what the hell was going on in a couple of places further down the block . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Oh Christ , there he was going round in a circle again . |