Example sentences of "[noun] were going [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these kids were going down fast . |
| 2 | The AA says lights would help , but police insist that once again drivers were going too fast in fog . |
| 3 | Local riders Roy Humphrey and Jason Peters from Finstock were going well too , but the only winner once again was the reigning champion Paul Millard from Trowbridge . |
| 4 | Lugh of the Longhand thought things were going rather well . |
| 5 | In fact , things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl , Jane Wilde . |
| 6 | Things were going deceptively well . |
| 7 | The General beamed ; things were going much better now . |
| 8 | Things were going as badly as they could . |
| 9 | One evening at dinner , just as things were going quite tamely , a toad came into the dining-room . |
| 10 | Things were going all right , the evening was a success . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mr Honecker evidently felt that things were going so well he could afford to relax and give his people what they wanted most : more freedom to travel to the West . |
| 13 | Things were going so well that she did n't want anyone else interfering with what she had worked so hard for . |
| 14 | ‘ Damn it , we should have known things were going too well . ’ |
| 15 | A decisive victory in a battle brought patriotic celebration , while at other times when things were going less well the failure to seek a peace could swing sentiment the other way . |
| 16 | Ipswich players were going down quite a lot , and every time they did , Leeds kindly punted the ball back to them after the drop-ball restart . |
| 17 | In 1764 James Boswell 's friend Rose claimed , in a conversation which the two men had at Leyden , that ‘ wars were going out nowadays , from their mildness ’ . |
| 18 | The illustrations were going unexpectedly well and the emotional ups and downs of yesterday were starting to fade from her memory . |
| 19 | The mines were going off too early , but aniseed balls placed between contacts proved effective , for aniseed balls dissolve at a constant rate no matter what the temperature . |
| 20 | The fear , the fear when when voyages of exploration were going out right up to the renaissance , was that the boats would actually run off the end of the earth , and fall into a void . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |