Example sentences of "[was/were] going " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following page we read that ‘ things were going badly ’ for Neto . |
| 2 | He felt as though he were going under dentist 's gas … |
| 3 | At last people were going to see the real Dorothy , the real live woman behind that starchy old madam who 'd sat in the corner for all those years , hiding from the world in general . |
| 4 | In times past , I had tried to get across to the continent as much as possible , but now , while other people were going abroad for the first time because of all the cheap travel around , I was ( without intending to be anti-social ) doing exactly the opposite and taking a look around the British Isles . |
| 5 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |
| 6 | She had evidently decided that things were going to be all right . |
| 7 | This was partly because of events that were going on around me : Kathleen building towards her retirement and , as was to become highly significant , Katrina deciding that she wanted to make a move as well . |
| 8 | They did n't know where they were going to start . |
| 9 | Some little groups were going off to west and east , but most hung on with a sense that the next thing now demanded to be done . |
| 10 | It — it — ’ It was no good , they were going from him . |
| 11 | No one had mentioned how fast the trains were going : nor the precise time of impact , not down to the minute . |
| 12 | When he stopped his work for tea , the prying landlady being out at the shops , he would try to arrange to meet her , either in the house or at the British Museum if she were going near the West End that day . |
| 13 | He was to see the beginnings of the great urban slums of New York and Chicago , and he must have had some sense of this if they were going to speak to American working people , but still , there was the mythology , the possibility of millions of dollars waiting to be made . |
| 14 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 15 | Slowly the tension eased as we realised that we were going to make it ; we exchanged jokes , we moved with greater confidence . |
| 16 | We had our minds made up that we were going to win this thing . |
| 17 | Mr Honecker evidently felt that things were going so well he could afford to relax and give his people what they wanted most : more freedom to travel to the West . |
| 18 | We were going to use a four-second snatch of The Hokey-Cokey , and were quoted £3,000 . |
| 19 | I felt what was happening was we were going not in the direction of addition , but of total change . |
| 20 | Only amid the mud and chaos of the West German embassy in Prague did they try to explain where they were going . |
| 21 | Mr Rampton asked Lord Aldington why he had ordered on 17 May 1945 that the Yugoslavs not be told where they were going , and whether they had been falsely told they were going to Italy . |
| 22 | Mr Rampton asked Lord Aldington why he had ordered on 17 May 1945 that the Yugoslavs not be told where they were going , and whether they had been falsely told they were going to Italy . |
| 23 | Lord Aldington insisted they had not been lied to , but they would not have got into the trucks if they had known they were going to Yugoslavia . |
| 24 | The receiver has gone in at only the parent company , and Sharp yesterday made it clear that seven of its 15 operating subsidiaries were going concerns . |
| 25 | Mr Oatley pointed out that because small producers were going out of business , up to 10 per cent of eggs consumed in Britain were being imported . |
| 26 | He was accused in a pamphlet , written by the historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and circulated by Nigel Watts , a property developer , of deceiving the Yugoslavs by letting them believe they were going to Italy . |
| 27 | He had been ordered not to tell the Yugoslavs where they were going . |
| 28 | Would they stop a great painter painting just because his eyes were going and his brushwork was n't as good ? |
| 29 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 30 | Shifty-eyes had probably made up his mind that we were going to shoot him ! |