Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] going [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were apparently going away for a long weekend vacation . |
| 2 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 3 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |
| 4 | One writer described couples entering and leaving church in the 1870s as ‘ cool and businesslike , as though having paid the deposit on the purchase of a donkey or a handsome barrow , they were just going in with their witnesses to settle the bargain ’ . |
| 5 | But perhaps I should n't have come , now , you were just going out . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I thought we were just going out for a couple of hours ! ’ she protested hotly . |
| 7 | When we were just going out . |
| 8 | Presumably , behind many of the net curtains in Wimbledon Park Road things as strange , or even stranger , were always going on . |
| 9 | Meetings were still going on in Manchester in a last-minute attempt to avoid today 's scheduled hearing in the High Court . |
| 10 | Talks were still going on between Knighton and his stockbrokers Laing & Cruickshank last night to prepare an offer document before tonight 's midnight deadline . |
| 11 | Negotiations over the final contract were still going on as the first DinDisc releases appeared . |
| 12 | We must remember , however , that just as all the alpine chains of Europe are now known to have been still pushing forward over the molasse in late Miocene times , so in places such as the Apennines , movements were still going on as late as Quaternary times . |
| 13 | We were still going slowly and painfully round the room when Estella brought in the relations who had been waiting downstairs . |
| 14 | Basically the minority who think about northern politics saw the good guy with his arm around the bad guy , at a time when bombs were still going off . |
| 15 | Lambert realized that far below the barrage was still pounding away ; that the observers reports were still going down the telephone wire , correcting ranges and bearings , selecting new targets from the shop window of the British Front . |
| 16 | And the messages were still going out when an Israeli cargo plane lost both starboard engines and hit an Amsterdam tower block — killing at least 250 people . |
| 17 | What did he think you were still going out with him like or what ? |
| 18 | Oh only a couple of weeks , no they were standing in the common room and she knew he was a virgin right and they were still going out and she knew he was a virgin when they first started going out and Rox goes oh so are you a virgin then erm erm James and he goes no and she was still going out with him and she knew that it was n't with her , obviously , and , and Roxy goes oh who was it then and he goes oh just two , two birds I met in erm Portugal and |
| 19 | The daft thing was they were probably going back to where we 'd been working . |
| 20 | But I do n't think they were really going out together . ’ |
| 21 | They were supposedly going out to hit the high spots together , leaving me to throw some things into a bag and drive down to the cottage . |
| 22 | So I know when , when the ne the negotiations were originally going on was with Lyons ' coffee , for one of their coffees which came from a particular known estate not for the whole range of Lyons ' coffees . |
| 23 | Things were now going very , very slowly . |
| 24 | So we did n't bother going because we were regularly going anyway . |
| 25 | Well , this afternoon the tall housemaids were then going by to have their tea ( they had their own sitting-room , the housemaids did ) ; they came down the stairs . |
| 26 | But you know , I felt like saying , well , you know he could have been a bit more considerate and concerned when we were actually going out with each other ! |
| 27 | No , were actually going out at seven |
| 28 | So anyway that was one of the reasons , when I found that Brothers was slowly going out of business , when I saw last in , and I asked him if er I could have this thing ? |
| 29 | Watching Jamie out of the corner of her eye while she poured whisky for both of them , she reflected that it was all going very well . |
| 30 | It was all going entirely to plan and quite uneventful until we arrived at about 150 feet above the upwind end of the runway . |