Example sentences of "[adv] [be] going [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 2 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 3 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 4 | So the words composed to fit the tune , that 's already been going around in a , in a gentleman 's music club . |
| 5 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 6 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 7 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 8 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 9 | Twenty-three-year-old Jill Yate took the opportunity of telling her boss that , although she had had a wonderful year travelling around Europe , she was beginning to feel homesick and would soon be going back to the United States . |
| 10 | Morland says most of its tenants are meeting the sales targets but those landlords faced with fines say the lights on their pubs could soon be going out for good .. |
| 11 | Because the light would just be going off into nothing and not coming back . |
| 12 | I realised I 'd be doing the eating so it would n't exactly be going up to heaven in a cloud of smoke , but as CJ says , it 's the thought … |
| 13 | But , you know , they 're just being going on as if they are i in a position to grant |
| 14 | The global data structure , the Chart , would provide an easily accessible record of what exactly was going on between the different components . |
| 15 | ‘ What exactly was going down at the farm ? ’ he asked . |
| 16 | I mean they just keep hammering and hammering and more and more are going out of business . |
| 17 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
| 18 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 19 | What has really been going on in this establishment ? |
| 20 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 21 | But one of the most persistent and pernicious myths we 've inherited from Descartes is that mentality is essentially conscious , so that anything we ca n't introspect ca n't really be going on in our mind . |
| 22 | Patting the chair beside him , he told Daisy , ‘ If Perdita gets the scholarship , Sukey and I may well be going out to New Zealand at the same time to buy some ponies , so we can keep an eye on her . ’ |
| 23 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 24 | Finally she solved the problem by agreeing to let Ted do it provided none of us told Mum and as long as Ted gave Jean a full report at the end of each day on what precisely was going on between Dad and Eva . |
| 25 | The history specialists in the secondary school for the area may also be able to offer advice , especially as pupils from the catchment area will ultimately be going on to the secondary school . |
| 26 | For many people , some sexual failure , temporary or otherwise , is made worse by the immense current cultural emphasis on passionate sex being the ‘ be all and end all ’ , with the implication of failure if they are not easily roused to orgasm regardless of what else is going on in their lives . |
| 27 | What else is going on in this person 's life at the moment that might make your intervention ‘ the last straw ’ ; for example , family illness , death , anniversaries of death , separation or divorce , loss of job , being accused of abuse of some sort ? |
| 28 | Something else is going on in the river |
| 29 | Somehow she suspected she would never be going back to school . |
| 30 | We 'll certainly be going back for seconds ! |