Example sentences of "[was/were] going very [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talks were going very well and Smith said that he wanted to give us a holiday and take us to Victoria Falls in his plane . |
| 2 | On 5 January 1201 Philip , the notary , and Cardinal Guido were sent : they had gone before Egidius returned with the news that things were going very badly for Otto . |
| 3 | But having had his look at the outside Phar Lap returned to join the rest of the pack , and though he remained at the rear he was going very easily . |
| 4 | The following day she felt that everything was going very slowly and by the next day she felt that she was back to normal . |
| 5 | Julie Anne said the divorce was going very slowly and carefully ‘ to soften the blow ’ for daughter Tatjana , six . |
| 6 | She was going very slowly and breathing heavily in her resolve that not a drop of whisky should be spilled . |
| 7 | Yes , I think that we could actually kill as it were two birds with one stone here er , the conversion of military industry into civilian industry has begun in the Soviet Union but it was going very slowly and part of the reason for that is , is it 's very expensive , now that seems to me a worthy recipient for Western direct economic aid . |
| 8 | It was going very fast and it made a lot of noise . |
| 9 | That said it was going very strongly at the time and there was much speculation amongst linesiders as to how No 7819 Hinton Manor would tackle the 1 in 52 climb to Talerddig summit . |
| 10 | There was one certainly in the docks in my time where , er quite a nasty fire in the docks , one of the warehouse buildings there was , was going very well erm a ten , ten or so pump was on , on that job . |
| 11 | But I 'm very disappointed about that , because er coming into the final furlong , Lester was going very well on the inside , but just lost out on the photo finish . |