Example sentences of "[was/were] going [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People were going round with long faces looking glum right until Christmas Eve . |
| 2 | you were going on about that |
| 3 | Contracts of employment were unknown and I remember the gloom at home if Dad announced that the works were going on to short time . |
| 4 | But even as preparations were being made to fly them home , talks were going on with independent schools all over England in the hope of finding them free places.Andrew Auster is one of the organizers of the scheme … and he 'll be taking some of the orphans at the Downs School in Colwall : |
| 5 | And so we were going up from that price to that price . |
| 6 | I know that 's good because we were all gon na go , cos I 'm doing a French course last year at college , and we were going over with that one pound , you know each , with a car load offer . |
| 7 | erm But certain headlands and certain soft parts of the cliff were going back at more than a metre a year . |
| 8 | This was discussed with the Jones who resolutely maintained that now that ‘ the problem ’ was solved they were going back to normal and apart from the period of intervention they had not changed what they did at all . |
| 9 | But as you look at it nowadays you can see if they were going back to these days would we still have the same interest . |
| 10 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 11 | Yes , well I do n't particularly limit the area of what I 'm interested , but if someone who was particularly interested in seeing how history was going over in this school , then I 'd be very happy in discussing with them how they might try and find out how successful history teaching was in that school for example . |
| 12 | A site where building was going on with real devotion when I visited the town in August was on the once bare hillside near the old cemetery . |
| 13 | What the hell was going on with this place ? |
| 14 | All the happening was going on for other people miles away . |
| 15 | Gateshead Family Health Service 's Authority admitted it had known what was going on for more than a year , but action was taken only after a patient contacted them . |
| 16 | But I thought that er with coming off that , Malcolm was going on to that . |
| 17 | that he knew what you were goin was going on at all ? |
| 18 | I did n't really have much idea of what was going on at all . |
| 19 | While this was going on at one firm , the table split and the trainee dealer slipped and sprained his ankle . |
| 20 | Even I did n't believe what was going on at first . |
| 21 | So when she was going on about Nigerian boys , I said , " So what , if I went out with this guy , you 'd be lucky if he stayed with me . " |
| 22 | erm arguing and er they was going on about this because if Mrs went to a farm and then said that she saw some hens there that did n't look particularly fit erm and said they 'd got to be culled and if the farmer thought otherwise then we got into all sorts of tangles because we knew nothing about poultry . |
| 23 | I mean that 's a , a thing that er I remember seeing a TV documentary and there was this bloke , I du n no if he was from the Terence Higgins Trust , I do n't think so , but erm er anyway he was going on about this , this very thing that there 's often the homophobic imagination er has this sort of slippage between you know , consenting adult activity and if you 're gay , if you 're homosexual then this probably means that you 're also interested in seducing children , you 're also interested in sado-masochistic activity er you 're also interested in , you know , a whole variety of other , you know , things which |
| 24 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 25 | The books of Mary Somerville ( e.g. , On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences , 1834 ) proved valuable to men of science wanting to keep up with what was going on in other fields , and unable to understand it all even if they had had time to read it . |
| 26 | The interest shown by so many ninth-century chroniclers , wherever they were based , in what was going on in other parts of that world , and specifically , in what kings did , reflects a persisting reality . |
| 27 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 28 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 29 | But in a way the nineteenth century was the century of history , because it was erm thought at that particular period of time that in order to understand what was going on in contemporary life , you had to have some historical appreciation , knowledge and perspective , and erm a great deal of the explanation of other subjects in the nineteenth century was , erm if you like , historical in character . |
| 30 | Whatever was going on in that head of yours , it was certainly dramatic . ’ |