Example sentences of "she [was/were] going [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just managed to catch her as she was going over the edge . ’ |
| 2 | I was playing jackstones in the street when Nelly Mitchell ran up with the news that she was going for the midwife . |
| 3 | It was a young female golden eagle , and she was going for the carrion he had left . |
| 4 | She was going to the airport and not to Alain 's house . |
| 5 | Before they parted May told her friend she was going to the cinema but she never left her house again . |
| 6 | Cos she was going to the panto thingy . |
| 7 | She cabled her parents and told them she was going to the Salvation Army College in London . |
| 8 | Well she was going on the train . |
| 9 | ‘ I saw her at about 8.30pm when she was going past the chippie , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Tamworth , yeah , he works in Tamworth and she has to fetch him cos he does n't drive , sometimes she fetches him a rather that him get the bus home and so she was going along the main she said the name of the road , but I ca n't , th , the number of the road but I ca n't remember she says she saw rats just trotting down the side of the road , you know ! |
| 11 | Of course Herman loves her whisperings — for he is always convinced that he will catch a word or two — but all he has ever heard was when she was going from the dining-room to the drawing-room after lunch with him , and she whispered : ‘ I hate sauces . |
| 12 | She was going in the charge form as occupier . |
| 13 | Reeling from her wounds , she still managed to give her car 's call sign — Delta Romeo Three Two — and told listening colleagues she was going after the man . |