Example sentences of "[was/were] going [to-vb] i [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They were going to take me back to Russia . ’
2 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 .
3 Jennifer told me : ‘ One guy wrote telling me he was going to burn me out of town , burn my house down .
4 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 ’ .
5 But I never felt that he was going to get me out in the second innings .
6 Maybe he thought he was going to get me back into the Church , but what I was doing was strictly pagan .
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