Example sentences of "[was/were] going too [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a cold and wet morning , but Lee Abbs and Leoma Needham were going too slowly to need wet tyres on their roller skates . |
| 2 | We were going too fast to see any details of the moored vessels so I just snapped a random photograph and , at the very same instant , the Maggot swore and banked and rammed the throttles hard forward . |
| 3 | Well with the others , it used to have to brake , if it were going too fast , you had to brake up a bit . |
| 4 | The AA says lights would help , but police insist that once again drivers were going too fast in fog . |
| 5 | It 's all because they were going too fast . |
| 6 | ‘ Damn it , we should have known things were going too well . ’ |
| 7 | The complaints of radical Kadets that Miliukov and his colleagues were going too far towards compromise with the regime were matched by the regret of right-wing Kadets such as Maklakov and Struve at the party 's failure to grasp the offers made by Witte and Stolypin of representation in the cabinet . |
| 8 | Then I was ready , ignoring Mala 's stifled giggles and her remark that the mauve roll-flaps topping off my boots were going too far . |
| 9 | He was going too fast for her . |
| 10 | Then reverse curves were coming up and the train ran through the first curve but was going too fast for the next one and the train left the track , killing certainly the driver and fireman and one or two passengers , I believe . |
| 11 | Everything was going too fast except Andy and he had not been going fast enough . |
| 12 | The power is wide enough on the one hand to allow the statement of an eye-witness to an accident to express an opinion ( eg that one of the drivers was going too fast ) and on the other hand to allow a party to put in a medical report from a doctor who has died or who can not be called for any other reason . |
| 13 | Perhaps he was going too easily you see , not playing his natural game , I mean it 's , you never know do you ? |
| 14 | The question now was whether she was going too far , straining the responses of an ancient nation beyond what was acceptable or practicable . |
| 15 | This was going too far for the established church in both Rome and Nicaragua , with the result that the Pope called for their resignation . |
| 16 | St Louis might well have felt that actually giving part of the domaine was going too far , but in the context of the urban problems of the 19th century the Emperor had undoubtedly judged correctly what the people needed . |
| 17 | Oh God , if Valerie had been shocked perhaps she was going too far ! |
| 18 | This was going too far . |
| 19 | The anger was eating into him , and although he knew he was going too far , saying too much , he could n't help it . |
| 20 | Sensing he was going too far , the old man was more cautious . |
| 21 | Instant retreat if she signalled he was going too far . |
| 22 | Was going too far . |
| 23 | Even Brian thought this was going too far : he paused at the door and turned , looking at her , puzzled . |
| 24 | Warning MacQuillan against his folly was one thing , killing him to save him from it was going too far . |
| 25 | Tilda had at first elaborated her story , saying that her mother was looking for a new Daddy , but her observation , quick as a bird 's flight , showed her that this was going too far , and she added that she and her sister prayed nightly to Our Lady of Fatima for her father 's return . |
| 26 | He was going too far , pushing too hard , saying things he did n't really believe . |
| 27 | Concerned that he was going too far , he took a deep breath and pulled himself together . |
| 28 | This was going too far . |