Example sentences of "she [was/were] going [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | When he stopped his work for tea , the prying landlady being out at the shops , he would try to arrange to meet her , either in the house or at the British Museum if she were going near the West End that day . |
2 | I just managed to catch her as she was going over the edge . ’ |
3 | I was playing jackstones in the street when Nelly Mitchell ran up with the news that she was going for the midwife . |
4 | It was a young female golden eagle , and she was going for the carrion he had left . |
5 | So she was going to the opposite direction actually , and I insisted that I do n't want to take her that long she would have to walk back again . |
6 | She cabled her parents and told them she was going to the Salvation Army College in London . |
7 | The following morning , accompanied at Aunt Emily 's command by a trembling Lyddy who was sure she was going to the very mouth of Hades , Alexandra was driven out to Trelorne , dressed very much as she had been when she trespassed along the shore . |
8 | She was going to the airport and not to Alain 's house . |
9 | Before they parted May told her friend she was going to the cinema but she never left her house again . |
10 | And then she was going to the careers office . |
11 | Cos she was going to the panto thingy . |
12 | She was going on the overnight train so that she could read the Children 's Act of Scotland en route . |
13 | Well she was going on the train . |
14 | ‘ I saw her at about 8.30pm when she was going past the chippie , ’ he said . |
15 | She hated anyone to watch her when she was going through the bins . |
16 | What else he had failed to tell her was that there was a fortune at stake — and that the custodian of it was this Bluebeard , this marauding monster … who , even now , while she was going through the motions of hating him , was turning her body to liquid honey . |
17 | 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 ! |
18 | Of course Herman loves her whisperings — for he is always convinced that he will catch a word or two — but all he has ever heard was when she was going from the dining-room to the drawing-room after lunch with him , and she whispered : ‘ I hate sauces . |
19 | She was going in the charge form as occupier . |
20 | She was going in the opposite direction this time . |
21 | Reeling from her wounds , she still managed to give her car 's call sign — Delta Romeo Three Two — and told listening colleagues she was going after the man . |