Example sentences of "was [adv] going [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Petty officer Dave Cockeram , who is in charge of the engines , said the crew averaging 50 men was easy going from the captain down , but definitely not laid back . |
| 2 | So as we were going along she was just going into the paper shop and she was on her way up to the one o'clock bus , so I called in to see Jackie and had a coffee and then we come home . |
| 3 | I was just going to the exit door when I saw the young girl s standing at the second bedroom , crying . |
| 4 | Ages is n't it I thought I 'd tidy up in his desk and I was just going through the mound of papers , and I said here you are here 's your licence , finish it off , fill it in , and I 'll give you the cheque . |
| 5 | A bus did come , but not surprisingly it was not going through the City as it usually did . |
| 6 | Paul had plenty but as , owing to a fixed and completely unbreakable appointment with the F.G.Y. , he was not going on the tour , his ideas were of no consequence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | My father was not going with the doctor because the operation would have much less chance of success if they were stopped on the way . |
| 10 | It had been carried out by himself , Dr Peter Brophy , and Dr Robert Wilson , who was also going to the premiere . |
| 11 | I was up going on the ski slope , and this is like , I 've been up a couple of times before , but it had been really cold and bi and I went at Easter , I was so like hot , but it 's still really good snow , and we went up there and I just could n't believe it , I just went dad , erm , oh , I do n't feel too good , and he just went , do n't be so stupid , and Nathan and I collapsed , I was at the front of this queue waiting for the ski lift and the whole queue just went |
| 12 | She was now going through the door into the store-room behind the shop when her father said , ‘ Mind , close up at nine sharp , Aggie . |
| 13 | Barnett found out I was n't going to the course . |
| 14 | The Doctor was n't going for the bait . |
| 15 | Standing there and scowling and telling Mrs Gotobed that he was n't coming back after the war , that he was n't going into the shop … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She had a scarf tied over her head and was evidently going into the village to shop . |
| 18 | That would be a decision of the officer in charge of the actual operation erm that was actually going into the flat but it was normal practice that radios would be switched off . |
| 19 | I realized that last night 's rice wine , followed by Doogie 's steak cooked in Glenfiddich and then more Glenfiddich , had left my cranial suspension system shot to pieces , but he was definitely going over the top . |