Example sentences of "[was/were] going [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and his Ibiza neighbour , Keke Rosberg , were both fed up with the sport , and things were going badly for both of them . |
| 2 | She liked to go for walks and when things were going badly between herself and Simon she used to go out on her own a lot . |
| 3 | People were going round with long faces looking glum right until Christmas Eve . |
| 4 | And were you alone in the cart when you were going round about or did you have a boy with you ? |
| 5 | erm and the North Koreans were going backwards at a vast rate of knots and in came the Chinese the Chinese army , it stood at that time I think at twenty five million men erm and , and Douglas started losing again , sad really is n't it ? |
| 6 | I think they were going somewhere to Ireland , I 'm not sure , but they had a load of of slates . |
| 7 | Cos he were going somewhere with David when you over . |
| 8 | And there was an instance a few years ago I think where they were going somewhere in Glasgow and a toilet was put in |
| 9 | On the front page was a story about an old man who had lain dead in his council flat for eighteen months until Gas Board workers had discovered him , a blurred photograph of some local women who were going somewhere in a body to protest about something and a larger picture of a council dignitary opening some sort of centre and looking pleased with himself . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together . |
| 11 | She tried to ignore the fact that inside her head two entirely different conversations were going on about Ace , and this dress neatly encapsulated one of them . |
| 12 | In the summer of ‘ 86 there was something called the Harmonic Convergence , which was supposed to usher in the Age of Aquarius — people who were going on about it back in the 60s jumped the gun by about 20 years . |
| 13 | Yeah , I got the impression when the TV commentators were going on about the Turks being in Europe for the last 10 years they were just looking for some excuse to explain th scum 's ineptitude . |
| 14 | You said , you were going on about , something about , when they sing oh Garrot Turbo sticker |
| 15 | you were going on about that |
| 16 | Couple of weeks ago they were going on about erm Essex . |
| 17 | what I thought you were going on about . |
| 18 | And I , and you , you were going on about something to do with your job yeah ? |
| 19 | By January 1928 the preparatory negotiations were going on between the TUC and the Confederation of Employers Organizations and the Federation of British Industries , the two main employers ' organisations . |
| 20 | Now it seems to me with erm with great respect from the view of the taxing officer , that er it 's quite clear that er both parties were holding han were holding their hands in relation to a question of taxation because negotiations were going on between the parties and indeed the defendants were being requested er not to proceed with taxation but to see if they could obtain an overall assessment and the point was met to the defendants barrister , telling quite frankly there would n't be much advantage in the defendants pushing on with erm taxation because they 'd only , they would have to look to his interest in the property to get payment , it seems to me in those circumstances that it can not be said that erm the plaintiffs were in any way acting improperly and not seeking to have the costs taxed during the period while the negotiations were being carried on er because effectively and |
| 21 | Contracts of employment were unknown and I remember the gloom at home if Dad announced that the works were going on to short time . |
| 22 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 23 | Lots of people were returning to the hut , but lots were going on to the Ober Gabelhorn . |
| 24 | Leigh , who drew a quarter 's salary in March 1565 , was another graduate of the University of Cambridge ; good boys from the School were going on to University . |
| 25 | On several occasions they had er displayed guns where people would back into their driveway or er show some indication that they were going on to their property , then guns were revealed , people coming out of the the buildings out there with guns and what have you . |
| 26 | Yes that 's what he told me , he said we were going on to for the rest of the week , eleven hours and then start double shifting Monday . |
| 27 | A Canadian Forces official said all 130 passengers and crew were going on to Chicago , and no arrests had been made . |
| 28 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 29 | Whilst the pathfinders had the original control of H2S , developments were going on with a fair measure of practical input from Bennett and his friends at TRE , and eventually a superior set was devised and known as the 3cm HS . |
| 30 | But even as preparations were being made to fly them home , talks were going on with independent schools all over England in the hope of finding them free places.Andrew Auster is one of the organizers of the scheme … and he 'll be taking some of the orphans at the Downs School in Colwall : |