Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] going [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wondered what exactly was going on when I found I could n't get into my own garage because of a great red car parked in the way . ’ |
| 2 | The global data structure , the Chart , would provide an easily accessible record of what exactly was going on between the different components . |
| 3 | ‘ What exactly was going down at the farm ? ’ he asked . |
| 4 | If I still was going down I 'd do it like that |
| 5 | It grew up as a series of local conventions , through people responding to one another 's behaviour ; the individual soldiers were probably hardly aware that the growing up was going on . |
| 6 | Lowe knew the sects and the papers they churned out were going nowhere . |
| 7 | The most popular items to spend money on were going out ( 52pc girls and 35pc boys ) , clothes ( 49pc and 22pc ) and books or magazines ( 43pc and 30pc ) . |
| 8 | Mind you , if you were on the top floor , you would n't think your clocks up there were going fast . |
| 9 | Finally she solved the problem by agreeing to let Ted do it provided none of us told Mum and as long as Ted gave Jean a full report at the end of each day on what precisely was going on between Dad and Eva . |
| 10 | Something else was going on , she was sure of it . |
| 11 | The paths were thickening as people slowly converged on that part where the machinery was getting into motion , but plenty else was going on far over by the tennis courts , by the children 's playground . |
| 12 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 13 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |