Example sentences of "i was going [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah he 's always putting When I was going over to Royals . |
| 2 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 3 | As I was going up to my cell it all hit me — am I ever going to get my daughter back ? |
| 4 | In fact I 'd told a couple of the group — Mr and Mrs Kronquist , I think it was — that I was going up to Summertown . ’ |
| 5 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 6 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 7 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 8 | And it took about two minutes to twig what I was going on about ! |
| 9 | By the time I was eight-years-old I was going around with a prostitute . |
| 10 | I 'm not surprised , I 'd have done me fruit , if I was going around with somebody that , that say they 're gon na put the house on the market for me , want to make a go , a go of the marriage , a new baby , two other kids and then oh , but yet , yet wants to play around in a , you know a little sports car , that nobody but two people can sit in |
| 11 | I know I did a thing on the phone with somebody once where erm er let's see what it was , oh I was going round to his house to cut some ends of bricks of a wall with er with a big angle grinder and I phoned up and said , hello this Leicester Brick Decapitation Services , I gather you 've got some bricks who 's heads need cutting off , and it was the wrong person |
| 12 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 13 | I was going round in circles because it 's a very small world — pimps and prostitutes . |
| 14 | And it 's seventy degrees out there in the winter , well I was going round in a T-shirt , they all thought I was mad . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought I was going through with it , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 16 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |
| 17 | erm , I have n't , I was gon na go and , I tried phoning Lorne one time I was going through to Glasgow just to see if I could , can I have a , can I have a pint with him or something , erm , just to chew it over cos he suggested you know he 'd made various helpful suggestions , in the meantime I did n't manage to meet him , but in the meantime I did manage to speak to my father-in-law who has a camcorder and er he will be more than happy to erm , he 's also got editing equipment , he would be more than happy you know , to do the home made video that we 've talked about , I need to talk to him about this because the obvious place to do will be the Lyceum on one of your shows |
| 18 | I had to consciously tell myself what I was going in for and not to use the trip downstairs as an excuse to have a ‘ little ’ rest on the sofa after my thirty-four minutes of hard work . |
| 19 | T. B. I was about to lock a fellow up at ten to the hour I was going off at . |
| 20 | ‘ As I was going off at half-time , the lad who tackled me came up and said ‘ I 'm sorry , but it was only a little tap ’ . ’ |
| 21 | My purple stripy barrel-bag — it was small , it 'd look as if I was going off to my gran 's for the weekend . |
| 22 | I went out to the powder-room and as I was going back into the restaurant somebody tapped me on the shoulder . |
| 23 | One afternoon I was going back into my hotel when a fat man came and stood in front of me . |
| 24 | The result was that on the Saturday morning , I told my mother there was nothing for me in England and I was going back to Germany to try and get my old job back . |
| 25 | By not eating I was going back to the security of needing my family , not being relied upon but having someone to rely on instead . |
| 26 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 27 | ‘ I was going back to Quatre Bras , sir . ’ |
| 28 | I was going back to London the next day ; the actor was staying on for another week . |
| 29 | But er I was going back to my own job you see , and then I went to see if the And then I I do n't know what happened . |
| 30 | I was going back to my flat one evening and I had no cause to feel unsafe . |