Example sentences of "[was/were] going [to-vb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were going to take me back to Russia . ’ |
| 2 | Really , I do n't think anybody in the crowd of just over eleven thousand thought United were going to pull anything out of that game . |
| 3 | We had a pizza and we were going to share it out between how many people ? |
| 4 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 5 | Alina had assumed that Belov was taking her to another of the buildings , but it seemed now that he was going to lead her out of the settlement altogether . |
| 6 | So I hunted him and smashed his face , and I was going to take him back to the prison-ship , so that he would n't have the pleasure of being free , when the soldiers caught us . |
| 7 | It was my responsibility I brought that child into the world , and there was no way I was going to thrust her off onto other people . |
| 8 | In my imagination , I was going to pick you up in a fury of emotion , toss you down on that bed — ’ |
| 9 | ’ He was going to sell you back to me . |
| 10 | He was going to kiss her , she thought wildly , he was going to bend her back over his arm and put his mouth to her throat , and she — she would close her eyes , she would arch her body to his … |
| 11 | In the lobby of that hotel , on the following evening , I was to meet a Mrs Knelle , the friend of an English friend , and she was going to put me up at her house in the country . |
| 12 | The estate agent was only a young man but quite an astute one at that … no-one was going to put one over on him . |
| 13 | I was going to put it up for you . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I thought that bastard was going to run you through with that knife and take you away from me — ’ His voice broke and he dragged her closer , burying his face in her hair . |
| 15 | Jennifer told me : ‘ One guy wrote telling me he was going to burn me out of town , burn my house down . |
| 16 | He 'd beaten that habit out of her when she was a child , telling her he despised weakness in any form , and no child of his was going to show him up in public or private . |
| 17 | She was going to show somebody round for that . |
| 18 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 19 | El Capitan poked the baton hard into the small man 's stomach , doubling him , then raised it as if he was going to bring it down on his curled shoulder . |
| 20 | They reckoned They was going to pull it down after the War . |
| 21 | But she had n't moved and I began thinking about how I was going to get her out to our vehicle . |
| 22 | But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings . |
| 23 | Maybe he thought he was going to get me back into the Church , but what I was doing was strictly pagan . |
| 24 | He was down and sometimes it seemed as if nothing was going to shake him out of it , apart from a laugh at someone else 's expense or a shared moment of despair . |