Example sentences of "[v-ing] [Wh adv] [pron] was going " in BNC.
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| 1 | She drove aimlessly for hours , stopping to fill the car with petrol , then carrying on , barely noticing where she was going . |
| 2 | I did n't hear what he shouted , but I was pretty lucky I was n't run over , cos to tell the truth I was n't really looking where I was going . |
| 3 | Once I did this without looking where I was going and went straight into the backs of nine armourers who were ambling towards the Mess for supper , and had to be disentangled from my machine , picked up and dusted off , which they did with all the gleeful enthusiasm which Thursby reserved for drawing his heavy black frontal lines on our neatly drawn charts . |
| 4 | And your Governor was n't looking where he was going , it was very silly of him . |
| 5 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 6 | ‘ I was born into the trap , he walked into it in avoiding another kind of servitude , with his eyes open , but not looking where he was going . |
| 7 | He scrabbled into a half run , going deeper into the Wolfwood , not looking where he was going , not caring overmuch . |
| 8 | He was not looking where he was going |
| 9 | he was not looking where he was going , where he was going |
| 10 | He was looking where he was going ! |
| 11 | She came out of the room , pulling her bag of soiled linen , and because she was n't looking where she was going , almost cannoned into a tall dark girl . |
| 12 | … she jumps out of the car and runs ; instead of running efficiently for the fortress like the others , she ‘ ran not looking where she was going ’ and consequently tripped and fell . |
| 13 | While she had not been looking where she was going , Rose had quietly taken her support . |
| 14 | She thought about them a lot , wondering how it was going for them on their first real day on active service ; the first day , she supposed , of the rest of their lives — of the duration , at least . |
| 15 | Ruth went down , then climbed up again into the dunes , wondering how she was going to find Adam . |
| 16 | As he strode off to his cabin Polly sank down on the settee , wondering how she was going to survive . |
| 17 | She looked at him a bit anxiously , wondering how she was going to tell him , and suddenly the hard face softened and he held out his hand . |
| 18 | She had raced up to her cabin wondering how she was going to repair herself enough to put in the rest of her shift . |
| 19 | Somewhat bruised , the raiding party made their way back to their rendezvous on foot , with David Stirling wondering how he was going to explain away the loss of the truck . |
| 20 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 21 | He turned on his own torch and started wondering how he was going to get out . |
| 22 | You mentioned Christopher , what er the last time it 's , I 'm going back a little while , the last time I was talking with Janet he , she was a bit unhappy , I think he was in er a teaching practice at the time and she was wondering how he was going to go on . |
| 23 | Jehan had been wondering when somebody was going to mention that . |
| 24 | Finally , Sheila , standing on the stage , wondering when she was going to regain her part of what served as a script , said , ‘ Silly old cow ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I was wondering when I was going to be let free to do the work of the Lord . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ So I stayed in Hong Kong , flew back and forth to New York , worked at Swift to keep myself busy , and fended off a lot of very annoying letters from my mother and sister , both incessantly wondering when I was going to come to Kenya and put myself through their combined emotional wringer . ’ |
| 27 | Reg Butler sat beside a roaring gas log fire , smoking a fat cigar and wondering when he was going to be able to retire , relax , play golf , take in the odd West End show like other successful men of seventy-two . |
| 28 | But there was no kitchen and he sure as hell was in no state to get up , so I was wondering where he was going to get something to drink from . |
| 29 | Ron finally became angry and wrote me a letter asking when I was going to turn up for training . |
| 30 | Late , quite late , someone had called up to her , asking when she was going to come down . |