Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [was/were] going [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was unfortunate that at this period he was going through a protracted quarrel-by-letter with her and was generally grumpy and morose , especially if he had recently received one of her periodic letters informing him that it was ALL OFF ! |
| 2 | On the day he was going through Der Zarewitsch with her , Willi did n't turn up . |
| 3 | And all his working life his mind was set on when he retired , instead of down doing it , you know , late at night he was going to be able to get up in the morning and do it . |
| 4 | Before his arrival she endeavoured to prepare herself for all exigencies , but this was difficult to do because she had no idea what sort of a man he was going to be . |
| 5 | At the age of nine Fred was already very much like the man he was going to be at thirty-five or forty . |
| 6 | The powerbrokers of the resource industries in the mountain west thought he was going to be their president ; but so did the environmentalists who loathe them . |
| 7 | The England football captain has appeared on Simon 's show and it was after reading out the press report announcing that Gary 's wife Michelle is going to have a baby , that Simon told the world he was going to be a dad , too . |
| 8 | She saw now that it was probably a photograph of the bitch he was going to bed with . |
| 9 | There was no way he was going to . |
| 10 | He had done all he could , but the boy was gone — could n't say he blamed him — and if the Irish Republican Brotherhood were sheltering him , then there was no way he was going to be able to make contact with him . |
| 11 | She spoke of the pain in her hands , neighbours who had passed on , and twice asked Mungo what school he was going to now . |
| 12 | In this month , mind you we 've used this one most Today she was saying , had n't Tony decided which school he was going to and then she started which school should he go to , will you have to pay ? |
| 13 | Surely Ashenden would have gone up to the Pay-Out desk immediately , if he 'd been there especially since that was the only time he was going to be in the betting-shop . |
| 14 | I 've got one brother , but he was younger than me and at that time he were going to school anyway . |