Example sentences of "she [was/were] going [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughed again as Claudia said that once was too much , and from then on she treated Claudia as if she were going on holiday with the man of her dreams . |
| 2 | She realised that she was feeling almost excited , as if she were going on an adventurous journey into unknown country . |
| 3 | she were going with this lad through and it 's the easiest three pound , three pound ten I 've ever earned Good though that int it ? |
| 4 | I mean the if she were going to be next week or something , she 'll maybe want to organize most of it herself . |
| 5 | She braced herself as if she were going into battle , blurting the truth out as she clasped her hands together until the knuckles stood out like bleached bones . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She might have been if she was going at you would n't she ? |
| 8 | And she went from here about er well she said she was going at quarter past two . |
| 9 | I just managed to catch her as she was going over the edge . ’ |
| 10 | She was often offered lifts , but when she said , thank you , but she was going for a walk , a pitying expression spread over the faces of the drivers . |
| 11 | I was playing jackstones in the street when Nelly Mitchell ran up with the news that she was going for the midwife . |
| 12 | It was a young female golden eagle , and she was going for the carrion he had left . |
| 13 | Not for the first time , she was going for broke ; she tried to tell herself that nothing much bad could happen , at the worst she could be discovered and thrown out , but somehow the stakes seemed much higher . |
| 14 | Lady Eleanor replied she was going for a walk behind the church . ’ |
| 15 | And she was going for an interview for a new job tomorrow . ’ |
| 16 | they , they all sitting on , a few of us sitting on the seat , the girl that was all shaky she was going for an interview at a Birmingham University another lady was going on to Northfield |
| 17 | And , oh I did n't tell you this either that she was going for a promotion ! |
| 18 | What I did n't realise was that her holiday started the day after she 'd had dinner with me , she was going to Italy to look at churches with her beloved son . |
| 19 | Oh , Jay , I 'd have thought she 'd have done it by now , if she was going to . |
| 20 | Lucy who did n't know she was going to be pounced on . |
| 21 | I was sure she was going to be happily settled . ’ |
| 22 | She was going to be left in the care of a woman she did n't know , just as she 'd been left with them before . |
| 23 | Well , she was going to now , Maggie thought . |
| 24 | She was going to be difficult to kill , no question about it , thought Henry . |
| 25 | These differences led to differing perceptions of their role by the two development officers — in Ipswich the development officer was a little unsure of how she was going to ‘ work in with the existing multi-disciplinary team ’ , whereas in Newham the development officer said she felt she was probably going to spend a good deal of her time negotiating between the different services and ‘ getting them to talk to each other ’ . |
| 26 | If she was going to be in the hospital for one night she would need lots of things to read . |
| 27 | After midnight Nell said she was going to bed , and I walked up the train with her to her roomette , almost opposite mine . |
| 28 | Surely Perdita would n't kick up when she knew she was going to Argentina . |
| 29 | She was going to Argentina , home of the greatest polo players and ponies in the world . |
| 30 | ‘ We invited him to appear and talk us through some film of him as a boy , and he did n't know she was going to be there . |