Example sentences of "[was/were] going [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 2 | That the familiar switchback nose and scraps of grey hair were going to melt away into the darkness . |
| 3 | ‘ = and they were going to stay there for a few weeks until their faces were off the front pages and they could tiptoe away . |
| 4 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 5 | Earlier however Kelburne looked as though they were going to walk all over the young Aberdonians when they raced into a 2-0 advantage from scores by David McKay and Michael Starling but a goal by Philip Webster just before half time gave the northerners a timely boost . |
| 6 | ‘ He said he was going to drive up to the Spaniard 's for a drink . |
| 7 | Chairman , er if I might I was going to refer again to the care carefully worded recommendation which does n't actually mention the level of erm it simply mentions erm er a modest extent of under provision because clearly it says elsewhere in the report at two ten that it 's not yet known whether there will be opportunities elsewhere , so that 's a particular shortfall in provision to be made up . |
| 8 | I did n't know quite where or how or with whom but I was going to turn in at the Gendarmerie and take it from there . |
| 9 | Judging by the latest letter he had received from New York , care of Isobel Dawson , it was going to go up with a bang — there had been sufficient talk of banning it to make sure that everybody bought it , without any real danger that it would be banned from the bookstores . |
| 10 | Cos we had to repack it you see because it was going to take a it was going to take probably not it was going to go right to the end with this lot on . |
| 11 | Now this is and I must admit when he pulled the trigger then I thought that was going to go right in the back of the net . |
| 12 | She looked from him to Michael and realised that her brother was going to go over to the man . |
| 13 | There were even rumours that it was going to go straight through the middle of Henry s house , a thought that , somewhat to his surprise , filled him with savage pleasure . |
| 14 | Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table . |
| 15 | Looking around her as if she thought someone was going to run out of the field behind her and save her , she saw that the man was much nearer . |
| 16 | He really gets steamed up if they 're left open , you 'd think somebody was going to run off with the timber mill . ’ |
| 17 | This thing he was putting himself in for was not ordinary athletics , but a curious hybrid of a sport which , it seemed to Jazz now , was so peculiarly rooted in the old British tradition that anyone pretending to come into it wearing a bloody turban was going to stick out like a clown in a gathering of clerics . |
| 18 | ‘ I would n't wear muddy hunting boots if I was going to climb in through a bedroom window and murder a lady , ’ said Ethel . |
| 19 | And now today she was going to start out as a student , this lovely girl that Emily still looked on with awe . |
| 20 | There was no way I was going to walk out at the end of all that . |
| 21 | In my message I told them that I was going to fly close to the control tower to see if they could tell me what was wrong with my port wheel , but again no reply from control . |
| 22 | It was n't just here and now , he was part of the past and he was going to sign up for the WEA history and archaeology classes . |
| 23 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 24 | He especially did n't like to think what would happen if his mother ever discovered that he was going to sneak out of the house to attend an illegal meeting a few days hence . |
| 25 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 26 | For a moment I thought he was going to get back to the DIY metaphor and start to try to get them to see me as undercoat or Jesus Christ as primer , but , instead , he recovered himself enough to say , ‘ Great News ! ’ |
| 27 | I saw Lukic launch into the tackle and it looked , for all the world , like it was going to end up as a foul but I could n't see if it was outside the area . |
| 28 | did n't realize that half the family was going to end up on the dole did we ? |
| 29 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 30 | Well , George was going to come up with a translation . |