Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] going " in BNC.

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1 When she said she 'd been going to visit her friend , there 'd been no friend .
2 She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ?
3 He 'd been going round the beat supping this over-proofed rum from the Customs .
4 I 'd been going round all morning and never seen him .
5 The ship was n't even properly victualled for the crew : they 'd been going to take food on at Crete .
6 Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for .
7 It was nearly a year since Dunkirk , and if they 'd been going to come , surely they 'd not have waited this long .
8 I 'd been going out burgling , like .
9 Motions , right , black and smelly , okay , and according to how the different colour of the motion be there , or the different colour of the grains were there would give an indication of how long this 'd been going on or how far up the gut it was , and the damage was okay ?
10 If he 'd been going to hang up on me , something made him change his mind and could be it was something I said .
11 I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on .
12 Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it .
13 She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time .
14 In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time .
15 He put aside a newspaper he 'd been going to read and jumped out of his cab .
16 He 'd told her what to get ; she 'd been going to get him flared jeans ! ) , and he thought he looked pretty good in his snow-white shirt , black jacket , white trainers and lightly blonded dark hair .
17 He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about .
18 ‘ He did n't like to admit he 'd got hooked — not after the way he 'd been going on .
19 ‘ We 'd been going out together on dates for a month or so , ’ she began haltingly , too emotionally drained to refuse him the information he wanted .
20 I 'd been going out with Heather on and off , with one or two other girls in between .
21 He 'd been going to say important or fashionable .
22 So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ?
23 But he did n't tell me he 'd been going out with her for three weeks and he 's never .
24 Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything .
25 Really , I do n't think anybody in the crowd of just over eleven thousand thought United were going to pull anything out of that game .
26 I would have thought myself that all it needed was going boomph in and turn it and get the other one in .
27 Occasionally I was lucid enough to remember that I must never write about what was going on , or what I thought was going on .
28 And I mean I put an asterisk down there to say that 's what I thought was going to come out quite heavily simply because this is is the case on these courses , you know the people that we get on these courses every single one of these that we 've had , and we must have had coming up to what over ten now , every single one we 've had people that the most the majority of people have had team work very high on the score .
29 I thought I 'd better do all my jobs which I thought was going to be spread across the d the day .
30 He 's pretty good on snooker as well , the , the Rothmans Grand Prix , which er is held at the Hexagon in Reading , starts tonight , goes on the October the twenty first , and I asked David Vine , who 's name has become synonymous with snooker , who he thought was going to win .
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