Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] go [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The college were going to try the issue before a pr private almost secret little disciplinary committee containing academics and students . |
| 2 | She was told that the charge was going to be for four days and Ganley was going to save the business . |
| 3 | Hayling explained further that if the GLC was going to support the venture , Walsh would have to get some newspaper professionals — or at least semi-professionals — involved , including , of course , Ben Lowe . |
| 4 | Their complaint was that the accountancy expert was going to interpret the agreement , which was a matter of law , and that he had announced that he would be assisted by a law firm . |
| 5 | Though no amount of apologising was going to excuse the fact that she had deliberately misled them , even given that she had only misled them from the best of motives — so that they should not worry . |
| 6 | Oh dear , Fenella was going to have the back of her legs slapped again . |
| 7 | All of them knew that this could mean only one thing : Aenarion was going to draw the Sword of Khaine , take up the Widowmaker , to wield the ultimate and deadly weapon . |
| 8 | 1976 : the year of the drought , of cricket fields that turned brown or white through the absence of water , and of Tony Greig 's announcement that his team were going to make the West Indies grovel . |
| 9 | In the shorter term , the kaleidoscope of the Second World War was going to accelerate the process and would present opportunities both for independence and revolution . |
| 10 | Nature irresistibly asserts itself , and no amount of talking by ICC match referee Clyde Walcott before the match was going to suppress the volatility of several of the Pakistan cricketers . |
| 11 | The sergeant considered Jim Lancaster was going to slam the door and he prepared to thrust his right foot up against the jamb . |
| 12 | I knew Jackson was going to surprise the hell out of a whole lot of people . |
| 13 | You never knew these days when a casual remark was going to provide the justification for someone stalking you with an automatic rifle . |
| 14 | The main purpose of the consultation exercise was surely to ensure the proposed changes were going to have the backing of the people affected by them , and until this episode of high-handed secrecy , it appeared to have worked . |
| 15 | The Czar was going to visit the wards at 10 a.m. next day and everyone would get a medal . |
| 16 | I was just wondering when the right hon. and learned Gentleman was going to tell the House how his Government intend to get out of the recession that they have created . |
| 17 | Faced with that dilemma the plaintiffs chose to endeavour to run the business to an early sale and that is what they did my Lord and er the premises were put back on the market er in the early part of nineteen eighty six and er it is pleaded that er in in paragraph six statement of claim , that in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead er because there were unreasonable delays on the part of the purchaser erm and er the deal fell through but then again in July er after the business had ceased trading , another buyer was found and then there was a lengthy period of negotiations at the conclusion of which the sale price was reduced because at that stage the plaintiff 's landlord was going to increase the rent er and the plaintiffs were at that stage under threat of forfeiture and eventually contracts were exchanged on the sixth of November nineteen eighty six the sale price being eighty one thousand five hundred and er completion was on the fifth of December nineteen eighty six . |
| 18 | Lewis wondered what visitor from Rome or Amsterdam or the Canaries was going to have the misfortune to stay with her . |
| 19 | Maura was going to have the chances that she he self had never had . |
| 20 | The Volvo hurtled backwards and Donna gripped the wheel tightly , knowing that this particular ploy was going to stop the Audi or kill them both . |
| 21 | I thought the trustees were going to manage the business . |
| 22 | Miller 's End was empty , and no one but a stray farm-worker was going to use the lane . |
| 23 | It came , they said , because Franco could see that the Axis was going to lose the war , so he wanted to distance the Spanish regime from Germany and Italy . |
| 24 | But while this was happening another student , who was a friend of both the dying man and myself , became convinced that God was going to heal the clergyman of his cancer . |
| 25 | Kopyion was going to leave the planet and return with ‘ Pandora 's Box ’ , the ultimate weapon . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought –you were going to sell the place . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ The Government was going to make the announcement on Wednesday . |
| 28 | As Parliament went into its long summer recess , it was quite clear that Margaret Thatcher was going to reshuffle the Cabinet and the betting was that the shuffle would be a major one . |
| 29 | A sudden upsurge to 3,500 on Dec. 31-Jan. 1 was reportedly prompted by a rumour that the Greek authorities were going to seal the border , and on Jan. 2 a Greek government spokesman alleged that the rumour had been deliberately put about by the Albanian authorities in an attempt to rid the country of the Greek minority , which numbered nearly 59,000 according to the 1989 census . |
| 30 | If the Tory Anglicans were going to lose the argument about the transfer of the Crown , they were determined to ensure that the Church would be safe under a Calvinist successor . |