Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] going to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 This time , however , we were not going to the Consulate but driving straight to the border .
2 The couple were not going to the palace of Saint Cloud , which would certainly not have provided an intimate setting for a honeymoon , but to a small house at Villeneuve l'Etang , which the Emperor had purchased himself .
3 One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway .
4 But I know that er the one or two people who told me that they 're going , er we were just going to the service in the church and then
5 Some of the casualties had small circulations , but by the spring papers with an average circulation of about 50,000 copies were also going to the wall .
6 ‘ I thought you were n't going to the match . ’
7 I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying .
8 The firm message from Whitehall last night was that Mrs Thatcher was not going to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Kuala Lumpur next week to propose a reduction in sanctions , although she would not agree to an increase in the measures already in place .
9 In the course of my pastoral visiting , before I took a funeral service , I called on the dead man 's son , who told me that he fell out with his father at his wedding twenty years previously and that he was not going to the funeral service now !
10 It had been carried out by himself , Dr Peter Brophy , and Dr Robert Wilson , who was also going to the premiere .
11 Barnett found out I was n't going to the course .
12 It was easier going to the house — he and Richard 's wife Pat used to swap wartime evacuation stories with each other and then they would play verbal tennis , making conversation out of the spoken lyrics of Forties ' songs — than going to the theatre to see other actors , as they sometimes did together after the run of Public Eye .
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