Example sentences of "was going [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 2 | For an awful moment I thought he was going to drive over the edge , but he stopped abruptly and we all got out . |
| 3 | This unbelievable sensation hit me , like I was going to explode from the inside out . |
| 4 | I did n't see how I was going to live with the memory of him as it was ; I thought there must be something we could do , just something ; even one friendly lunch together might help . |
| 5 | He was going to wait in the corridor until Kopyion came out , and he would confront him . |
| 6 | The things she was going to need for the baby ! |
| 7 | In the end , they shipped us out because I was going to complain about the doctor . |
| 8 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
| 9 | It 's possible I knew subconsciously all along what I was going to do with the gun . |
| 10 | Piers was nowhere to be seen , and without his presence in the kitchen she thought carefully about what she was going to do with the bits of chicken and the assortment of vegetables . |
| 11 | ‘ Some of the other customers stood up and demanded to know what the Chancellor was going to do about the economy , ’ says proprietor Moziruddin Ahmed , who was far too discreet to say whether Mr Lamont paid by Access . |
| 12 | Ross had , in fact , been quite right — and what she was going to do about the problem , she simply had no idea . |
| 13 | He will be joined by local MP Michael Fallon and Hartlepool Conservative candidate Graham Robb who yesterday said it was high time Labour told the voters what it was going to do about the continuing problems of congestion and accidents on the A1(M) . |
| 14 | Maurice was going to continue along the path but Wycliffe stopped him . |
| 15 | how long the employment was going to last in the absence of sickness ( a short-term contract is more likely to be frustrated than a job expected to last for the foreseeable future ) ; |
| 16 | The only good thing about all this was that the procession was going to march through the Old City . |
| 17 | He knew the cruelty she was going to witness over the next three months would be agony for her because , for some reason , she trusted animals far more than humans , but , like a nurse looking after animals in a vivisection clinic , he could n't prevent her pain , only alleviate it as much as possible . |
| 18 | Her hand went so quickly to cover her profile and her mouth became so taut , he thought she was going to weep with the same energy . |
| 19 | She was going to swim in the lake , alone , because both Nick and her father had expressly forbidden it . |
| 20 | I was going to say about the mother of parliament . |
| 21 | I had already made up my mind what I was going to say by the time Frankie had rapped on the door . |
| 22 | Oh by the way Miss Hall do you know anything , said P C Garfield , well said Jane I was n't going to tell , but I think Mr Sandy and their assistant knows something about it , because about twelve thirty this morning I was going to report about the cobwebs and dampness on the walls and I heard Mr Sandy and his assistant talking in the back room . |
| 23 | Indeed , this hidden audience of mutual foes delighted Raphaelo who described loudly and floridly what was going to happen to the captives . |
| 24 | When he did , his eyes narrowed and for a moment Kelly thought he was going to bound across the room and hit her . |
| 25 | Schaffer was going to move into the cloakroom and take a look through the window , but as he grabbed his binoculars from the office there was a polite knock on the thick outer door which resounded through the hollow space of the building . |
| 26 | Last April , Kathleen informed us all that she was going to retire in the autumn . |
| 27 | Standing back from the main road , surrounded by green grass , was the memorial to those men of the village and the surrounding hamlets who had died during the Great War , and behind the memorial was the primary school which I was going to join in the course of the next few days . |
| 28 | ‘ How futile to announce that some great lead to thought was going to emerge from the mountain of memoranda discussed at high pressure by exhausted delegates . ’ |
| 29 | I knew I had to do something or I was going to crack from the fear . |
| 30 | Since he had , like them , done all these things , it was an easy step for ageing trendies — who hated the cultural conservatism of Ronald Reagan and George Bush — to believe that he was going to act on the things that most concerned them . |