Example sentences of "were going [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My boyfriend and I were going through a very rough patch at the time . |
| 2 | Yesterday 14-year-old Johanna 's mother and father were going through a double agony . |
| 3 | It kept him occupied and brought a bit of money in , but not much , because fairs were going through a lean patch , too . |
| 4 | In the circumstances they could hardly refuse our request for a special audit — indeed , they appeared to welcome it , saying that although they were going through a difficult time they had nothing to hide , and were confident that the bank would wish to continue its support . " |
| 5 | The press gave the impression that governors were going through a series of complicated changes and that new puzzles and ambiguities about their powers were being constantly revealed . |
| 6 | ‘ Middlesbrough were going through a bad patch at the time . |
| 7 | Consumers were going through a period of retrenchment after the boom years of the 1980s . |
| 8 | Mr Gutteridge , whose Mentorn Production Company produces Anneka 's programmes , separated from his wife Jilly shortly after Anneka and Nick admitted in a statement issued through their lawyers that they were going through a ‘ difficult time ’ in October 1991 . |
| 9 | Did you se , the advert with er Ronnie Barker talking to that other feller and he says oh aye he says we were going through a really bad patch me and the wife who went to marriage guidance and Ronnie Barker says oh did it do you any good ? |
| 10 | They were going through the motions on television but their voices , face and body language were vividly clear — they knew they would lose and they were putting on a brave front . |
| 11 | The kids were going through the practical joke stage and , having exhausted their repertoire on us , were delighted to have a new victim . |
| 12 | No , thought you were going through the erm , plans , this is all the background history to the er , house . |
| 13 | The erm election note 's up , I mean it , we were going through the local candidates through you know when the important dates are ? |
| 14 | I thought you were going through the fucking the bollard ! |
| 15 | Yes , I did in fact erm whilst when we were going through the education proposals erm I did list reductions as John has mentioned , but I did also include the extra valuation for primary staffing that erm has went into our budget and the Liberal Democrats and I think Labour 's originally , which is now included in the combined Council budget . |
| 16 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |
| 17 | I know that , because Gran said so once , when we were going through an atlas together . |
| 18 | Right , do you think do you think did the army consider they were going into a colonial situation ? |
| 19 | One they were going into a pub , and going into the toilets , you know , making a , so he had a a policeman waiting in and the toilets , for them you see , and the o one other , notable occasion he was seen chasing them down the main street in Morley , he got his cape on , you see , |
| 20 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |
| 21 | Virgin were going into the airline business . |
| 22 | Another was that the child , who had always been sickly and scared , as though all her fortitude were going into the stiff orange fence hanging down her back , seemed to begin another kind of life as soon as it was cut off . |
| 23 | Er and then I heard from Australia that they were going into the engineering exhibition in Melbourne and I offered them er a mobile display and they came back with one or two added ideas and so I changed the specification again . |
| 24 | ‘ The captain said we were going into the Falkland Sound . |
| 25 | It seemed that the verderers were going towards the outlaws ' citadel , not away from it . |
| 26 | We were going towards the sun . ’ |
| 27 | They were going up a stony drive . |
| 28 | They were going up the stairs now . |
| 29 | ‘ We were going past a pet shop in Shrewsbury , where we had been before looking for George , when we decided to have another look around . |
| 30 | unless you were going with a group of friends cos you do n't , you would n't meet anyone , you would , s seriously they were , last year they were like twelve years old . |