Example sentences of "were going [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The kids were going through the practical joke stage and , having exhausted their repertoire on us , were delighted to have a new victim . |
| 3 | No , thought you were going through the erm , plans , this is all the background history to the er , house . |
| 4 | The erm election note 's up , I mean it , we were going through the local candidates through you know when the important dates are ? |
| 5 | I thought you were going through the fucking the bollard ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Virgin were going into the airline business . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ The captain said we were going into the Falkland Sound . |
| 12 | It seemed that the verderers were going towards the outlaws ' citadel , not away from it . |
| 13 | We were going towards the sun . ’ |
| 14 | They were going up the stairs now . |
| 15 | You were going with the picture on the outside , well that 's fatal . |
| 16 | The only person that she spoke to on the whole crossing was a young man who fell on top of her as she and he were going down the stairs : he was following her , two steps behind , when the boat gave a violent lurch and he missed his footing and crashed into her , and she too missed her footing , and they both sat down together upon the stairs . |
| 17 | The shadow home secretary , Tony Blair , claimed the plans were going down the road of centralised policing when the reverse was needed . |
| 18 | The shadow home secretary , Tony Blair , claimed the plans were going down the road of centralised policing when the reverse was needed . |
| 19 | I think , you know , you , you were going down the right track , you 've got ta be really . |
| 20 | But then that would mean that you 'd have to have assessed people in whatever it was they were going on the training course before |
| 21 | Up to virtually the last minute I 'd assumed that we , or at least yours truly , were going on the plane as well . |
| 22 | When we started well we were in trouble in York When we at then we were going on the go slow system you know , we did n't produce much slate we were on the go work to rule . |
| 23 | Military vehicles were no rarity in the streets , while press and television maintained a steady flow of information on how things were going on the different fronts . |
| 24 | When Pietro told us that you were going on the pay-off I felt that you should know what you were getting yourself into . ’ |
| 25 | And it was er , it was quite amazing when we were going on the motorway we saw these cars with erm er er there was like Pakistani erm and Turkish flags flying and when we got , er when we was going at the night time to Blackpool it was crammed ! |
| 26 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 27 | Yeah , cos we was there in the August , they were n't , we moved in , in the July , there , and the girls were , Matthew was just four , cos just as we moved in our dad took Matthew to Hungary with him , it was like , it was like they were going on the following Wednesday , and he told me on the Friday , he came in on the Friday night , they planned , it was our dad , Crystal and Danielle , Crystal and Danielle , but she said even if I go out in the middle of . |
| 28 | As they came close we watched as they demonstrated the subtle science of reading the often obscure words of the hymn and seeing where they were going at the same time . |
| 29 | ‘ I got my chemistry degree and like everybody else I applied for whatever jobs were going at the time . |
| 30 | That shop you were going at the cheapest one . |