Example sentences of "[pers pn] was going [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I was going towards the North Stand and got as far as the All-Blacks ' 10-yard line . |
2 | I was n't going for his agreement or anyone else 's agreement — I was going for what I felt was right at the time , and as he 'd set me up as this person in his life , I advised him not to do it . |
3 | You know the last time I went back to Britain , I was going for a month but I changed my flight and left two weeks early . |
4 | I was going for my usual roundhouse and the Lord said , ‘ Do n't finish that roundhouse . ’ |
5 | It was down the pasture near Lartington on a day during the last war , when the weather was very bad and I was going for the bus to Barnard Castle . |
6 | I was going for bream . |
7 | I told everyone I was going for a merit , but it made me feel really good when I got it ! |
8 | Well that 's what I thought I was going for this morning as well as that one . |
9 | So when I went , I had to go again on Monday I took just my purse in my pocket and thought oh this is bit , cos I mean I knew what I was going for , you know , were n't looking round for anything in particular and I thought this is bit risky ! |
10 | ‘ I was going with someone and he was going with someone so we never made it , ’ said Karen . |
11 | Not because I was going with another boy , but because he was a Gnat . |
12 | as I was going with the fourth year |
13 | And I wish I was going with him |
14 | Hello , thank you , ah I wish I was going with him |
15 | Half a mile , and he was right up my arse and I was going at a far pace |
16 | I was going on the school trip to the Norfolk Broads and needed some spending money . ) |
17 | 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 . |
18 | The S.S.O. was crossing Casualty yard when I was going on duty that afternoon in a flaming temper . |
19 | The next day I was told to pack my stuff up because I was going on the other side [ to another wing ] . |
20 | ‘ I was going on a bit . ’ |
21 | I head off along the road and make for Deptford High Street , swinging my bag of clothes like I was going on holiday . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | But I was on the race , I was going on the race track . |
25 | Well , sorry Jack , I was going on the previous figures which |
26 | The question is , as you rightly say , in psychoanalysis , the analyst usually has a vast amount much more than people normally realize , I mean , I recall from my own analysis , and mean I was going between two and four times a week erm , for an hour each time and it was a good six months before she would make any interpretations , and I used to get very frustrated , you know , I used to say things like , well , what do you think of this , Miss , you know . |
27 | I was going through what could only be described a ‘ drop-out ’ period . |
28 | I had n't let myself stop and think about it , but I knew there was something very wrong with me , and although I was n't depressed exactly , I was going through hell . |
29 | I was going through the figures . |
30 | I was going through a military zone towards the Tenezrouft route and Mali . |