Example sentences of "[was/were] going [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only experience of collectivization there 'd been was the Soviet one and they seemed to have known at least something about the Soviet , they knew it involved a lot of force they knew that if you were going to collect you were going to collectivize you needed the mechaniz well they thought that you needed the mechanization first and they knew that they d A they did n't have the capacity for that mechanization they did n't want to use force I mean i it would , i it would have been very dangerous , would n't it , to go back to the countryside collectivization . |
| 2 | I thought you were going to put it facing the front . |
| 3 | I was going to let you have the rent as soon as we met again . ’ |
| 4 | I was going to say I represent the tourist ind , industry in Grampian , and I do n't think anybody can deny that our royal are a tremendous draw to tourists , particularly tourists from overseas . |
| 5 | It was like going to the Holy Land , or being the Knights of the Round Table , Sir Perceval I think it was , and your dad suddenly said he was going to take you to see the Holy Grail . |
| 6 | Patrick realised that this was SOCO 's way of recognising that he was persona grata and was going to allow him to enter the murder room . |
| 7 | ‘ I was going to tell you to change the locks . ’ |