Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] going [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about five years later when I was going away for a weekend and knowing that space in the car would be limited , I spent a long time thinking what sketching materials to take which would not need much room . |
| 2 | The time I went before that , I got erm , like a frostbitten thumb , because I was going up on the chair lift , and er , I dropped one of my gloves , and it was quite a cold day , so by the time I 'd got to the top , and skied all the way back down , and then down the road going back to try and find me gloves , because I had borrowed them from a friend , |
| 3 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 4 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 5 | By the time I was eight-years-old I was going around with a prostitute . |
| 6 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 7 | And it 's seventy degrees out there in the winter , well I was going round in a T-shirt , they all thought I was mad . |
| 8 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |
| 9 | I went out to the powder-room and as I was going back into the restaurant somebody tapped me on the shoulder . |
| 10 | By not eating I was going back to the security of needing my family , not being relied upon but having someone to rely on instead . |
| 11 | When I arrived at MGM , I felt like I was going back to an enormous boarding school again . |
| 12 | And it was Alice , right , and as I was going out to the door , she said to Alice , Alice must have said to her , are we going tonight ? |
| 13 | Here I am eighteen years old , and in a great state of elation because I was going out with a boy . |
| 14 | Unlike Michelle in Eastenders , my situation was quite different as I was going out with the father of my son . |
| 15 | Pat rung up and wanted me to fetch the dressing table on Tuesday night I said yeah alright I 'll do Wednes but I forgot I was going out with the girls Wednesday so I went out Tuesday and she would n't let me have it , cos Tuesdays they 're not working in the kitchen |
| 16 | He asked me when I wanted to do the interview , I was going out of the hotel and so we 'd do it when I got back . |
| 17 | I was going out of the home more often and people had begun to comment on this . |
| 18 | Cos I was going out in the fresh air , I 'm alright when I 'm out in the fresh air . |
| 19 | er er you were going , you were going well with the , the pension you , you wanted him and your diagram was good and he was going for it but directly you showed him the diagram then you started on about this er |
| 20 | Darling — and I 'm sure this wo n't be inopportune — do n't worry about me , because I 'm really quite a ‘ happy warrior ’ ; it was the thought of leaving you , and the fact that you were going back to a hard grind , which prompted my outpourings . |
| 21 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 22 | You said yesterday you were going along with the Irish |
| 23 | and you were going out into the |
| 24 | Earlier she had come down in this lift with Steve and now she was going up with the last person on earth she could have envisaged . |
| 25 | Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever . |
| 26 | Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed |
| 27 | She was going on about the grass they 've left on the |
| 28 | Time was getting short ; she must talk to Dana , and this time she was going right to the top . |
| 29 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 30 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |