Example sentences of "was going [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other a skinny youth was going through a pile of invoices , checking them against what must be a goods-inward book . |
| 2 | Now I never if I was going through a train or going down a platform , and there were two or three carriage women carriage cleaners you know , I would n't speak to them about their work . |
| 3 | I know that Geraldine was going through a phase of socialism , and inverted snobbery , almost , to put it unkindly but accurately . |
| 4 | Kim was eventually seen by a psychiatrist and the latter told the parents she was going through a phase of sibling rivalry which she would eventually grow out of . |
| 5 | I got the impression very quickly that she was going through a period where she was experimenting a lot with what she could get away with as an individual . |
| 6 | A that time David was going through a period when he would n't fly , which was a pretty smart ploy because it gained you a lot of time between gigs , as you have to travel by some sort of surface transportation . |
| 7 | This circle of writers and intellectuals did not confine themselves to their own particular pursuits , for the West Indies was going through a period of great political change in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 8 | Standard started looking at the possibilities of EAP back in 1990 when the financial industry was going through a period of great change . |
| 9 | It was a terrifying thought , but it had behind it a lot of erm I think of force , and the point is that the primary school teacher who was getting the child to crouch before the Roman gladiator was not in the business of training professional historians , was much more interested in getting the child involved in an educational way , yet ironically was coming closer to perhaps what we 're trying to do at university now , than the teacher who was going through a list of the textile industries and so on . |
| 10 | For one thing , the material was patterned , and Clara was going through a stage at which the uncertainty of her taste made her prefer the strictly plain to the figured . |
| 11 | ‘ And then another time when I was going through a patch of poor health , I went on a ‘ stone age diet ’ — pure things with no additives and lots of bottled water . |
| 12 | Brenda , I adore it , it 's me all over so the bathroom I had endless trouble , as you know , with Shirley I had to buy stuff and Shirley came in and I gave her little presents of this and that and helped her with cooking meals for her she re-grouted practically my bath tiles and my en suite tiles because we thought water was going through the wall , and it was and then I had to replace the where you take the plug out in the bath , I forget what you call that , the trap |
| 13 | and er when I was going through the change and I 'm post menopause er and having terrible feelings , I 'd nowhere to go ! |
| 14 | We were sitting in our caravan , and John Peel was going through the line-up . |
| 15 | We were sitting in our caravan , and John Peel was going through the line-up . |
| 16 | Before the 1974 election , the Consumer Credit Bill was going through the House . |
| 17 | Oh I know what I was gon na quickly go through the , I was going through the training was n't I ? |
| 18 | She 's used you before , to get her stuff back , to establish an alibi for when Jack was going over the wall . |
| 19 | I 'm not an expert fighter and I did n't know I was going over the top . |
| 20 | Patriotism was all very well , but she felt this was going over the top . |
| 21 | He always swore that when he was going over the Baloch that 's the the road between Glen Ayloch and Kil and Glen Shee , he said i if you were at certain hour of the night he said as sure as anything there was a man on horseback pass you with this horse . |
| 22 | I just managed to catch her as she was going over the edge . ’ |
| 23 | Now Kathy seems to me should be checked checking the assessor , just as if it was going over the telephone |
| 24 | there was one in the paper , there was a picture of it in the paper , and it , I 'm sure , it did say the old gate bridge , I 'm sure and it was nearly owt it was going over the bridge |
| 25 | when I was going onto the roofing that was Saturday before the Monday , he says we should |
| 26 | I 'd read about , I read erm read in erm some paper or other not so very long ago , about erm a funeral and the that was going along the road of course , and they came to a to a erm hotel and they were och , they were going for miles and miles and miles and they went into this hotel and the they party the funeral party went into the hotel and had a good few drinks and they were well away when they came out and they they they went away without the coffin , for two miles , two miles before they discovered that they did n't have the coffin . |
| 27 | Tamworth , yeah , he works in Tamworth and she has to fetch him cos he does n't drive , sometimes she fetches him a rather that him get the bus home and so she was going along the main she said the name of the road , but I ca n't , th , the number of the road but I ca n't remember she says she saw rats just trotting down the side of the road , you know ! |
| 28 | I was so excited that I forgot I was going into a cage with a wild bird . |
| 29 | ‘ The JetRanger was going into the water . |
| 30 | He knew perfectly well that the software was going into the Ministry of Defence , he had not asked to what use it would be put when it was installed , and he certainly hoped there would be more of the same . |