Example sentences of "[was/were] going [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to ignore the fact that inside her head two entirely different conversations were going on about Ace , and this dress neatly encapsulated one of them . |
| 2 | Leigh , who drew a quarter 's salary in March 1565 , was another graduate of the University of Cambridge ; good boys from the School were going on to University . |
| 3 | David and Geoffrey were perfectly welcome because they were English , but I was not welcome because I was American , so while they were staying on to see the May Day Parade , I was meant to leave and fly to Berlin where I would wait for David and Geoffrey who were going on by train through Poland . |
| 4 | They were bubbling in the car because they were going away on holiday . |
| 5 | And if you were going above of course , that note would be ? |
| 6 | Sharpe and Harper were going back to war . |
| 7 | We trudged around for an hour or so , unable to face the thought of lunch , and found another small hotel near Chamartin ( we were going back by train the next day by the last evening train ) . |
| 8 | P. P. Sometimes , when we were going in at night , when it was wet , we would try and put a mac on and slip down to A Division parade room — hang the mac up quick and dive into your coat . |
| 9 | Some little groups were going off to west and east , but most hung on with a sense that the next thing now demanded to be done . |
| 10 | And then there was a study into and area of Belfast where most of the men were unemployed and it was the women who were going out to work in the factory and it was found to be the other way round , and the women spoke more of a non-standard than the men did when the men were staying at home . |
| 11 | Did he not know that 33 per cent of married women were going out to work , and that did n't mean they were competing to do Mrs Griffiths-Jones ’ dishes ? |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't realize you were going out to dinner . |
| 13 | Ken went to the man 's flat before they were going out to dinner . |
| 14 | In the words of one user , ‘ they were giving them out as if they were going out of style ’ . |
| 15 | Mr Oatley pointed out that because small producers were going out of business , up to 10 per cent of eggs consumed in Britain were being imported . |
| 16 | The builders of Canary Wharf were going out of business and needed help . |
| 17 | ‘ In this back street , ’ he said , ‘ they were making coffins like they were going out of fashion . ’ |
| 18 | One of them could be Swindon 's own Duncan Shearer , who 's been scoring goals this season as though they were going out of fashion . |
| 19 | But it was still a surprise to receive a letter from Mr Major 's office just when we thought thatchers were going out of fashion . |
| 20 | The thing is the said to me she said , oh were going out in style and have a drink , had a really nice sandwich there like , it was french loaf about that bit , get nice home cooked lot 's of cheese and onion right , really nice . |
| 21 | We were n't going to get mixed up in a job , when we were going home off duty . |
| 22 | She did not go on to express the next thought in her mind : thank goodness Annabel was going away to school , and very soon the association would be closed , for its continuance would create an impossible situation . |
| 23 | I said I could n't stop the night because I was going away on holiday early the next morning . |
| 24 | It was you , after all , who was going on at breakfast about the perils of lapses in concentration . ’ |
| 25 | They often came into the dining rooms together and one day they were trying not to listen as Bessie was going on at length about her friend Elsie Dobson . |
| 26 | The boy was going on at length with apparent fluency . |
| 27 | Manufacturers , distributors and retailers have all felt the pinch during the recession and some hard bargaining was going on over coffee and orange juice . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | So she must have been really , had really deep feelings about what was going on in society and why she should do that . |
| 30 | I 'm not saying that people would have never changed their ideas but if it would have been done in the manner that it would have been done in in the first place and if people would have been told about their future lives and if people had been , would 've accepted what was going on in light of all the decisions that have been taken previously regarding the merger issue . |