Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] go [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 , |
| 2 | ‘ I was going on about the relative merits of casseroling and roasting . |
| 3 | The first lecture I gave I was going on about the different approaches to psychology . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively . |
| 6 | I went out to the powder-room and as I was going back into the restaurant somebody tapped me on the shoulder . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Unlike Michelle in Eastenders , my situation was quite different as I was going out with the father of my son . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I was going out of the home more often and people had begun to comment on this . |
| 13 | Cos I was going out in the fresh air , I 'm alright when I 'm out in the fresh air . |
| 14 | Dej and his colleagues did not want to remain the poor peasant cousins of the other Communist states which were going off along the high road to communism . |
| 15 | It all became a kind of tribute to the Falklands which was going on at the time of writing . |
| 16 | Was n't that implicit in whatever it was which was going on between the two of them ? |
| 17 | Who were going in for the exam and I were n't allowed to help them . |
| 18 | You said yesterday you were going along with the Irish |
| 19 | and you were going out into the |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Yvonne seemed silently furious , then announced she was going up to the lifeboat shed to buy some souvenir crap or whatever . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | She was going on about the grass they 've left on the |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She was going out of the band room when she suddenly asked , ‘ If someone takes liberties with you , is it partly your own fault ? ’ |
| 26 | She was going back to the knacker 's . |
| 27 | Emily left me , mouthing as she went out of the door that she was going back to the office . |
| 28 | By this time Angie had entered his life and she was going off with the ladies and he was going off with the boys — and that 's the way it was . ’ |
| 29 | I thought that was the mate who was going out with the blonde you know . |
| 30 | I thought you was going down to the garages ? |