Example sentences of "was [adv] go [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had arrived in the late afternoon of a perfect summer 's day , was shortly to go off to the Alps and then the Himalayas and had not touched rock for a couple of years , so the urge for activity was upon him . |
| 2 | Because it was an old house that they were renovating , and it had got so much rot in it and woodworm , and he said he said he said th there they were walking up one minute and the next minute the piano was just going down through the stairs . |
| 3 | She was just going out of the door . |
| 4 | I found in Northumberland , the worst bit was it was just going out in the cold to the shower . |
| 5 | So erm I was feeling a bit edgy about this when we were in the pub after the concert cos I thought maybe he 's reading things into it and I , you know , I was just going along for the music . |
| 6 | I was not going back into a situation where I only had myself to talk to . |
| 7 | I was emotionally devastated , but I was not going back with the intention of finding a man to take care of me , to pay my bills , to embellish me and play papa as Helmut had . |
| 8 | ‘ Ruddock 's trouble was that he was always going on in the build-up to the fight about how he reckoned he used to knock me out in sparring when we were kids . |
| 9 | The Athenians did not , however , lose sight of the Persian War which , in accordance with the propaganda of 478 , was still going on throughout the 470s . |
| 10 | The Persians had been driven from Greece not many years before the temple was begun , and the fight to free Greeks from them was still going on in the east . |
| 11 | He packs his girlfriend in then went with Jane , but he was still going out with a girlfriend if you know what I mean . |
| 12 | He said some kind of game was probably going on between the children and Timothy Gedge . |
| 13 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 14 | For the best part of an hour he exposed what was really going on in the international motor industry . |
| 15 | Mrs Willmot was now going on about a film evening in October : ‘ I thought you could lay on some nature things — I know that 's your forte . ’ |
| 16 | He was n't going in for the Eddie . |
| 17 | But Preston was n't going back across the Common . |
| 18 | He was n't going for a joy trip , he was n't going out in the boat just to se to while away an hour or so to relax and to unwind , he was n't going there to , just to get away from the crowd of people that had been following him and had been listening to him , he had a purpose in going in into the boat , to go to the other side . |
| 19 | Old Lady Bridhe , widowed sister to Eachuinn Odhar and mistress of Duart Castle till Marion arrived , was late going down to the hall . |
| 20 | I was about to go back to the hotel when a pool attendant gestured to me and whispered that he urgently needed to change Iraqi dinars into dollars . |
| 21 | He was about to go back to the company when he realised that in the middle of the town was a house where an old man lived , exactly where the company were planning to build their new station ; and the old man was refusing to sell . " |
| 22 | It was late in the afternoon when he realised that he had eaten nothing since breakfast , and he was about to go out into the town in search of a restaurant when the telephone rang . |
| 23 | ‘ They had a range that was selling , but with no one actually involved in planning it ; it was just a question of whatever anyone thought was pretty going in with no production schedules , no set ranges for satisfactory colour matching . ’ |
| 24 | Wh what , what was actually going on at the tenants ' group then ? |
| 25 | The mismatch between a head 's espoused values and what was actually going on in the classroom could be startling — and indeed is a recurrent theme in several of our interim reports , notably 10 and 11 . |