Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] going [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 2 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | He 'd been going round the beat supping this over-proofed rum from the Customs . |
| 6 | I thought I 'd better do all my jobs which I thought was going to be spread across the d the day . |
| 7 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 8 | I thought every breath that cat took was going to be her last . ’ |
| 9 | The Brownings , it appeared were going to France , to some seaside place , in Brittany perhaps , where they would be joined by members of both their families , somewhere new , somewhere stimulating away from the tired attractions of Lucca . |
| 10 | The , the last one that I bought was going to be easy , but oh . |
| 11 | The event had been going through a lean period and had degenerated into a glorified booze-up , but there were some who were interested in keeping it alive and they got together to decide if they were going to let it go or make an effort to put it on its feet again . |
| 12 | The cooperative movement had been going through the same process , and every week was being confronted by the same forces which had compelled trade unionists to consolidate their forces . |
| 13 | The same thoughts had been going through the minds of two other women with disabilities . |
| 14 | What Margaret had said earlier had been going through her mind over and over again . |
| 15 | She did n't know whether to smile back or not , and she wondered what that expression had meant , and what had been going through his head for the last few miles . |
| 16 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 17 | Quite apart from the impending expansion and modernisation of our fleet , we had been going through a difficult period in the prevailing political climate at HQ . |
| 18 | His secretary had been out to lunch , and he had been going through the files stored on the disk she was currently using , looking for a copy of a contract that he urgently needed to check . |
| 19 | Derry City 's new boy conceded Roy Coyle 's side had been going through a lean period but he said the lads would bounce back . |
| 20 | His wife Ann-Marie Turnpenny , of Sheerwater Avenue , Darlington , said their marriage had been going through a difficult period . |
| 21 | Janie 's distraught mother Angela Darling explained what had been going through her mind during the case : |
| 22 | They were standing by the desk in the library , where Theda had been going over the household accounts when the lawyer arrived , Hector , his wound still troublesome , laying at her feet . |
| 23 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 24 | Thomas Duff , who had been going about his business as a messenger boy when it was said that he ‘ nearly ran in to two gentlemen ’ , put up a stout defence in court . |
| 25 | Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs . |
| 26 | Thirty minutes earlier she had been going up the stairs to read the newspaper on the toilet . |
| 27 | Dai told the story of how one of the visitors , a wealthy industrialist , came into his well stocked shop to use the phone and find out how things had been going at work during his absence . |
| 28 | The worst moment , apart from his father 's collapse while being helped to the toilet , had been going on stage on the night of his death , and hearing Lydia Dorinskaya say , ‘ All that lives must die , /Passing through Nature to eternity . ’ |
| 29 | We had been going on the idea that whoever killed her lunged at her when she was standing up : a thrust parallel to the ground . ’ |
| 30 | It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin . |