Example sentences of "[was/were] going [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By January 1928 the preparatory negotiations were going on between the TUC and the Confederation of Employers Organizations and the Federation of British Industries , the two main employers ' organisations . |
| 2 | Mr Haydn Cook , chief executive of the Friarage , said negotiations were going on with the Scorton hospital about its contract for the forthcoming year . |
| 3 | And then he went on and he landed up in Seattle the time they were going up to the Klondike Gold Rush . |
| 4 | ‘ Some of the other kids were going down to the Ash Grove later , ’ she complained . |
| 5 | It seems that Jesus himself organised this last journey , from the borrowing of a donkey and its foal to the challenging protest against what was going on in the Temple courts . |
| 6 | It was pretty wonderful to be sitting there watching it all and knowing that I was the only person in the whole school who realised exactly what was going on inside the Trunchbull 's pants . |
| 7 | He was going back to the Cluanie Inn . |