Example sentences of "[was/were] going [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end an agreement on St Valentine 's Day 1979 was cobbled together of 9 per cent plus an extra £1 a week , but the stakes were going up all the time . |
| 2 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |
| 3 | If you drew it on your graph it would be quite steep and it would look as if you were going up ten centimetres for every centimetre you went along which is almost vertical . |
| 4 | The Chair is obviously referring to the fact recently in the courts , there was consideration of the closure of old persons ' homes , and you know that you are under a legal requirement to consult in respect of those otherwise any decision , to close without consultation can held to be invalid , and that has impinged on some authorities who were going down that route , so there is a duty there . |
| 5 | We were very fortunate but I do remember the guns used to go off and I , when my so my son was born the , the guns were going off all the time from the castle . |
| 6 | Wagons were going out empty , heading for the forest . |
| 7 | Parked was here , I was going up that way . |
| 8 | And I was going up this ladder . |
| 9 | I do n't need to spell it out for you but the assumption is that he was going back drunk and got hit . |
| 10 | and there was a girl on and she said what is a bolster case and when I tried to explain to her she looked at me as if I lived in the ark and that was going back twenty years ago . |
| 11 | For at the very time he was sitting alone in the house , in the early hours of the morning of the funeral day , reading again his father 's will , the most modern ship in the world , the SS Titanic , was going down stern first , with all its lights blazing into the icy waters of the North Atlantic . |
| 12 | Looking back on the fall , he said : ‘ I knew he was going down 20 yards before it happened . |
| 13 | She was going along one of the corridors when Travis caught up with her . |
| 14 | When asked if she was going out that evening , Becky replied , ‘ Well , I was n't , but I certainly am now ! ’ |