Example sentences of "was going [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All was going well until a passing lad with a sense of fun ( ? ) pulled out the plug . |
| 2 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 3 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 4 | He was going out with a silly cow of an art student and she lent him the book . |
| 5 | I nodded to her and to Aline , who was Franco-Vietnamese and engaged to Hugh Watt , one of Ashley 's multitudinous cousins from the branch of the family that seemed to favour consorts of an exotic provenance ( Hugh 's brother Craig was going out with a stunning , lanky Nigerian called Noor ) . |
| 6 | Next Sunday she was going home for a special birthday tea they were arranging for her . |
| 7 | Bunny was going home on a twenty-four-hour pass and Meredith returning from a week 's leave in Hoylake . |