Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Thank god I was n't listening to Radio 5 , else I 'd probably not have any fingernails left with worry that they would n't put even one past Swindon .
2 I was n't going to court to get the order reduced , just stopped for a while until I get a job .
3 It would have been stupid to say I was n't going to sleep with him , because I knew I would .
4 That 's why I was n't going to hand this out right at the beginning , because I wanted to make you work at it a bit more , er , then you can , when you 've got those two versions written underneath .
5 In English I was I was just listening to music .
6 Oh is that I was just talking to man .
7 I was just going to bingo .
8 I was just going to bed when the police came .
9 I was just going to bed , he said .
10 afford , ca n't afford at the minute , I was just saying to dad Bri 's gon na get us some shopping on his cheque book , I tell you , did I tell you about his embarrassing moment ?
11 Well I was only going to sleep Jo , I was n't doing anything , I 'm just tired .
12 I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners .
13 ‘ He was extremely drunk and in a stupor when he attempted the crime — which was never going to work .
14 It was n't like him , it was out of character , but she was n't acting to character either .
15 She was not going to back down on this one , you could tell .
16 A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy in Cape Town , who was slowly suffocating to death , yesterday became the world 's first child to have an artificial windpipe implanted , during an operation by a British surgeon .
17 erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved .
18 However , as the medical picture became more clear , there became more and more a sense of underlying tension , with heroic care being delivered by people possessing the knowledge that it was n't going to work .
19 And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work .
20 It was n't going to work .
21 But it was n't going to work .
22 Sadly , it was not going to work .
23 He thought he had better leave the pistol where it was ; it was much too heavy to carry around if it was not going to work .
24 Now , at last , here in Hochhauser , looking her best , with her dear , dear friends from the past , she knew it was all going to work .
25 I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way .
26 Now whether you like it or not , and you 're not in our position , because we er prepared to manage this authority , you would have had that same reduction to find , and I did hear Councillor and he was also referring to capital spend the other day , saying he could have found ten million .
27 To tell a child that he was automatically going to heaven , would not be biblical
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