Example sentences of "it was going [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Kathy seems to me should be checked checking the assessor , just as if it was going over the telephone |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't know whether it was like Howard Hughes and cleanliness , but it was going on that way . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah , cos I did n't go out it was n't , you know it was going on eleven when I left here . |
| 5 | She thought about them a lot , wondering how it was going for them on their first real day on active service ; the first day , she supposed , of the rest of their lives — of the duration , at least . |
| 6 | It was going to be a rotten summer . |
| 7 | It was going to be sheer pain to say it , but acid agony to hold it in . |
| 8 | Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’ |
| 9 | The particular premises that Let It Rock occupied had always been in the very vanguard of London fashion trends but working there was n't as much of a shock as I thought it was going to be at first . |
| 10 | Undoubtedly it was going to be a beautiful day , a summer 's day such as is unequalled anywhere in the world but in the South of England , a day that begins with mists , burgeons into tropical glory and dies in blue and gold and stars . |
| 11 | It looked as though it was going to be another fine day . |
| 12 | Nannies were inevitable and , within their social set , also very much the norm ; but the choice of Barbara Barnes to look after William was an indication that it was going to be a relaxed regime : she had no formal training , never wore a uniform and liked children to call her by her Christian name . |
| 13 | The last word must go to Nick : ‘ She said it was going to be different , but I did n't realise quite how different . |
| 14 | When Paul called me back to ask whether he was serious about this , I replied , yes , although I must admit I did n't hear strings and flutes on ‘ Space Oddity ’ at the beginning but once the track was done , it was obvious that it was going to work really well . |
| 15 | But anyway , we created that whole idea that no-one could photograph him , no-one could do do a story on him unless it was going to be a cover story , which was outrageous because he was virtually unknown in America . |
| 16 | It was going to be a major battle and there were plenty of press predictions that the radical changes would cost us the next general election . |
| 17 | He felt sure the man had been paid some sort of allowance for putting him up , but it did n't look as if any of it was going to be spent on food . |
| 18 | Left to myself I might have tried to persuade , to plead , to wheedle , to say how nice it was going to be at home . |
| 19 | All around him , the film of water left by the tide shimmered in the sunshine : it was going to be a beautiful day . |
| 20 | Just because Hawks were going to go to Iran and I was wondering how many planes it was going to be this time . |
| 21 | Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too . |
| 22 | There was something cold-blooded about using his father 's death to make a poem ; she had changed the names so that she could attempt to get it published , and it was going to be . |
| 23 | The February 1974 election turned out to be close , but few thought it was going to be close at the time . |
| 24 | Although manager Billy Bonds refuses to give up , he admitted : ‘ I think in the last month we have always felt it was going to be very difficult for us . |
| 25 | I thought it was going to be worse than it was . |
| 26 | I really thought it was going to be sort of ‘ You must not drink ever again' and ‘ You naughty boy , you must n't do it ever again' sort of thing . |
| 27 | I had the idea that it was going to be ‘ Do this , do that ’ but it was n't like that . |
| 28 | It was going to be a long day . |
| 29 | She hoped it was going to be reasonably warm in Templeton 's . |
| 30 | ‘ You did n't tell me it was going to be anything like this ! ’ |