Example sentences of "was going [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And just as she was feeling sure and secure , a smile becoming a real part of her as she gloried in the feeling growing between them , Lucy gave her to understand that she was going away for three weeks . |
| 3 | Then Guy told Leonora he was going away for three weeks to Wales , to take photographs for a travel book , and suggested she went with him . |
| 4 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What the hell was going on with this place ? |
| 7 | All the happening was going on for other people miles away . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But I thought that er with coming off that , Malcolm was going on to that . |
| 10 | that he knew what you were goin was going on at all ? |
| 11 | I did n't really have much idea of what was going on at all . |
| 12 | While this was going on at one firm , the table split and the trainee dealer slipped and sprained his ankle . |
| 13 | Even I did n't believe what was going on at first . |
| 14 | 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 . " |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She believes her children made up the allegations that sexual abuse was going on in other families because of the constant questioning . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Whatever was going on in that head of yours , it was certainly dramatic . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If I 'd known what was going on in that house right under my nose … ’ |
| 25 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 26 | It was already past midnight when they got to see Dustin , who was playing pool by himself , while a huge party for the cast was going on in another suite . |
| 27 | We 've known something was going on in northern Romania for some time . |
| 28 | Work was going on in this specific area at Harwell , where it was classified secret , and now a leading Soviet was offering to come and tell all ! |
| 29 | It was too soon for the operation to be taken away from Cardiff before he found out just what was going on in this hellish office block . |
| 30 | He watched the girl as she moved with quiet competence about the table wondering , as always , what , if anything , was going on behind that extraordinarily wide brow , those slanted enigmatic eyes . |