Example sentences of "[pers pn] was going on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was going on the school trip to the Norfolk Broads and needed some spending money . ) |
| 2 | My motivations were not as clear-cut as those of any contemporary workforce , but there is no doubt in my mind that I was going on strike in the only way I knew how to , and that in this sense Szasz is right to describe anorexia nervosa as a political problem . |
| 3 | The S.S.O. was crossing Casualty yard when I was going on duty that afternoon in a flaming temper . |
| 4 | The next day I was told to pack my stuff up because I was going on the other side [ to another wing ] . |
| 5 | ‘ I was going on a bit . ’ |
| 6 | I head off along the road and make for Deptford High Street , swinging my bag of clothes like I was going on holiday . |
| 7 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 8 | I return to the Island as if I was going on evening shift : catch a 188 to Greenwich Church Street , cross the harbour beside the Cutty Sark , slip under the river through the Foot Tunnel . |
| 9 | But I was on the race , I was going on the race track . |
| 10 | Well , sorry Jack , I was going on the previous figures which |
| 11 | For one thing , she was going on her own ; for another , it was n't by the sea . |
| 12 | Then there was the rime when she was going on holiday with a schoolfriend and the friend 's parents . |
| 13 | I knew she was going on a cruise . |
| 14 | She was going on the overnight train so that she could read the Children 's Act of Scotland en route . |
| 15 | She was going on a picnic . ’ |
| 16 | And that she was going on Wednesday , I think . |
| 17 | Well she was going on the train . |
| 18 | I mean he she was going on that tape about she had to replace some things . |
| 19 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 20 | She was going on Wednesday , I hope she went . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't know whether it was like Howard Hughes and cleanliness , but it was going on that way . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , cos I did n't go out it was n't , you know it was going on eleven when I left here . |
| 23 | One detective told TODAY : ‘ He was going on overseas trips , he dressed in designer suits . |
| 24 | North of the Alps he was the first prince to announce that he was going on crusade . |
| 25 | We rang Duncan to ask where he was going on holiday , but he had already gone away . |
| 26 | That he was going on holiday . |
| 27 | ‘ We ca n't find out where he was going on Friday evening ; you know that he was seen in Albert Terrace , apparently on his way to Moorgate ? ’ |
| 28 | He had gone early because he was going on a surveying job . |
| 29 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 30 | The fella 's name was a Corporal and he was killed in a train wreck at Ipswich while he was going on leave going to London . |