Example sentences of "[was/were] going [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well WE 'RE not … were going to leave it to the strong men … something different too … the first ever weightlifting world cup for the disabled . |
| 2 | And I was very worried because the lady that was going to be paying for the job was just down there and if we were n't careful we were going to kill her with the wardrobe . |
| 3 | And they were going to put them in the shape of an arrowhead . |
| 4 | They were going to put us in the workhouse . |
| 5 | She was wearing a large muff and as they left the train Minton remarked , ‘ I thought you were going to smuggle me through the barrier in that . ’ |
| 6 | He said , ‘ But you were going to tell me about the business . ’ |
| 7 | He said you were going to change me on the medication , |
| 8 | And they were going to throw it on the scrap heap but somebody in the mill the said , that was the bicycle that Adam had made . |
| 9 | And erm they were going to send her for an interview straight away . |
| 10 | Then , as she nodded in agreement , he added viciously , ‘ Were you already planning , even as that photograph was being taken , how you were going to fleece him of every penny he possessed ? ’ |
| 11 | Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time . |
| 12 | Belinda wondered how on earth they were going to get it up the stairs and through the house , but she sensibly decided that it was their concern , not hers , and anyway the bedroom needed to be vacuumed first . |
| 13 | At bonus time , his superiors were going to reward him with a fat check . |
| 14 | Only then did I realize they were going to transport me up the mountain . |
| 15 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 16 | Procter 's anger at this annoyed Lloyd so much that he told his captain he was going to hit him over the pavilion ; and he did just that — next ball . |
| 17 | No , I was going to say what about the one about five sticky buns in the baker 's shop , do you know that one ? |
| 18 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 19 | At first I thought the kick was going to leave him with a permanently capped hock , but luckily Lynn Russell ( the friend , show producer and dealer who sold Skipper to me ) had all the answers , as usual . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's remembered she found a brochure for a hotel in Northumberland and she leapt to the conclusion that Garry was going to surprise her with an unexpected holiday . |
| 21 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 22 | Erm he 's just come down with this rotten old cough and cold again and I was going to take him to the doctor 's but then they do n't like it giving them anything and I do n't like giving him anything so |
| 23 | She said she was going to take them to the men working on the road . ’ |
| 24 | He was going to take me to the derelict château he and Montaine had discovered in a clearing in one of the forests . |
| 25 | And there they would greet the men that they knew , and collect what news they could , and visit the cess-pits more often than they would like to admit , while turning all the time to look up here , where the King their leader was deciding what was going to save them from the army of Northumbria . |
| 26 | Uncle Harry was going to cast her as the hitchhiker in Mondo Desire . |
| 27 | Perhaps he was going to touch me for the air fare home . |
| 28 | But now he was going to see her in the flesh . |
| 29 | Deeply afraid that this man was going to put me in a cage . |
| 30 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |