Example sentences of "[was/were] going [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kids were going through the practical joke stage and , having exhausted their repertoire on us , were delighted to have a new victim . |
| 2 | I thought you were going through the fucking the bollard ! |
| 3 | The erm election note 's up , I mean it , we were going through the local candidates through you know when the important dates are ? |
| 4 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |
| 5 | Another was that the child , who had always been sickly and scared , as though all her fortitude were going into the stiff orange fence hanging down her back , seemed to begin another kind of life as soon as it was cut off . |
| 6 | I think , you know , you , you were going down the right track , you 've got ta be really . |
| 7 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 8 | Military vehicles were no rarity in the streets , while press and television maintained a steady flow of information on how things were going on the different fronts . |
| 9 | That shop you were going at the cheapest one . |
| 10 | As they came close we watched as they demonstrated the subtle science of reading the often obscure words of the hymn and seeing where they were going at the same time . |
| 11 | Last night , he must have done about three grams of the white stuff , plus cognac to stop the shakes , plus not going to bed all night , plus having to behave like a serious grown-up with his trainer and make sure his homes were going to the right races in the right countries at the right time , plus a screaming anxiety attack about his father and Butler and the mess his life was in , plus the horrific combined effects of the morning and the country air . |
| 12 | Ah yes , I ask you about those , erm cos we did say at one time that we thought some of you were going to the half yearly Council meeting and pick them up there . |
| 13 | And they always travelled separately , even when they were going to the same function . |
| 14 | They said they were going to the local pub for a meal if I 'd like to join them . |
| 15 | ( It 's always spelt N O E , and answer has an E. ) One does have this feeling that people were getting wind of Mr Edward Heath walking down the street , and were going out the back doors of the house . |
| 16 | And they were going in the next morning , oh they 'd phoned up they 'd cancelled . |
| 17 | When Mrs Thatcher came to power in May 1979 , union power was at its height and British industry was going through the crippling after effects of the winter of discontent |
| 18 | Just one more thing that may have been mentioned yesterday when Jess was going through the legal and underwriting session , this applies to both Covermaster and living assurance . |
| 19 | I was going through the death-registry books in the cartrio civil of Bom Jesus da Mata , a market town in the sugar-plantation region of Pernambuco in the Brazilian North-East . |
| 20 | As Martin Walker says : ‘ The Oxford of the late Sixties was going through the heady delights of the sexual revolution . |
| 21 | The splendour of the room never failed to unsettle him , and the fact that everyone else was going through the same series of salutations did nothing to make him feel more comfortable . |
| 22 | After university it was announced that he was going into the armed forces . |
| 23 | er , first of all I would put it to my divisional board to my colleagues to ask for their thoughts and their advice erm , if they rejected it then it would n't go any further , if they approved it then it , because it was a budgetary item rather than just we can go out and spend it tomorrow , it was going into the following years budget , it would then go to the P L C board and they would have final say in whether that element should go into the , into next years budget |
| 24 | At this school exchange , however , my mother met another woman , who had a daughter there , who , miraculously , was going into the same class as me ! |
| 25 | ‘ As soon as it left my foot , it was going into the top corner , rising all the time . ’ |
| 26 | He was going into the unknown . |
| 27 | Steve Gaughan mustered his side 's first real effort after 35 minutes , a long range shot which Nigel Adkins saved at the foot of his post , but two minutes later they were almost level when a powerful Nick Cusack header from an Andy Toman cross was going into the bottom corner until Adkins somehow pushed the ball away . |
| 28 | The next day I was told to pack my stuff up because I was going on the other side [ to another wing ] . |
| 29 | She was going on the overnight train so that she could read the Children 's Act of Scotland en route . |
| 30 | Well , sorry Jack , I was going on the previous figures which |