Example sentences of "[v-ing] [Wh adv] [pron] be going " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of us have a major problem when faced by a very unpleasant character who is screaming like an animal or explaining how he is going to separate us from parts of our body . |
| 2 | Throughout the General Election campaign , trade union leaders were invisible , but as soon as Mr Kinnock resigned as leader , they filled the television screens , explaining why they were going to put Mr John Smith in . |
| 3 | Zen obediently rose and followed , wondering as a dog perhaps does at his stupidity in not understanding why they were going that way , where their enemies lay in wait . |
| 4 | She drove aimlessly for hours , stopping to fill the car with petrol , then carrying on , barely noticing where she was going . |
| 5 | People will wonder if it is their fault that the person who died in the road traffic accident perhaps was not looking where they were going because of being preoccupied with what was happening just before they left home . |
| 6 | People pushed past them , not looking where they were going , elbowing , crushing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Sorry , not looking where I 'm going . |
| 10 | Man carrying shoulder load not looking where he is going . |
| 11 | " He 's not looking where he 's going . " |
| 12 | And your Governor was n't looking where he was going , it was very silly of him . |
| 13 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | He scrabbled into a half run , going deeper into the Wolfwood , not looking where he was going , not caring overmuch . |
| 16 | He was not looking where he was going |
| 17 | he was not looking where he was going , where he was going |
| 18 | He was looking where he was going ! |
| 19 | No I do n't think she 's ready quite yet , she 's got a few things to sort out first and that 's definitely not right , she wants to raise the daggerboard not lower it , bit of confusion there about which way to turn the tiller but she 's round safely , she should be looking where she 's going now instead of sorting out all the string . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | … 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 . |
| 22 | While she had not been looking where she was going , Rose had quietly taken her support . |
| 23 | ‘ Must you rush around without looking where you 're going ! ’ |
| 24 | You should be looking where you were going . |
| 25 | You can sit back and enjoy the plot without worrying how it is going to turn out for your favourite character — because you wo n't have one . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been left here holding the baby , jobless , practically penniless , worrying how I 'm going to meet mortgage repayments . |
| 27 | " Harry and I were just wondering how we were going to get her clothes on again . " |
| 28 | ‘ I was just wondering how we were going to get through the next few hours . ’ |
| 29 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 30 | You may be turning your attention to job hunting and all that entails , and wondering how you are going to pay your way until you start earning . |