Example sentences of "[was/were] going [to-vb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nelson was going to have to fumble through on his own — just as she was fumbling through each day , holding her breath hoping to see him , talk to Matthew … trying to understand this hunger inside her . |
| 2 | I was going to have to ease up on the Slammers . |
| 3 | I was going to have to ease up on the grass as well . |
| 4 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 5 | But it started to make me feel scared that it was something I was going to have to bring up for the rest of my life . |
| 6 | I really was going to have to get round to discussing the extraterrestrial problem . |
| 7 | The next morning , after another sleepless night — this really had to stop or he was going to start dozing off at his desk — he got up , made himself a coffee and , wincing already in anticipation of her reaction , called Alexandra 's flat . |
| 8 | Because he had the freedom to hang around with anyone , it only seems natural that somewhere along the line he was going to get mixed up with people who were bad news . |
| 9 | I was going to come charging down from the top of a sand-hill . |