Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Nicholson , ’ Paul Merrick said , brushing loose strands of wispy hair from his face , ‘ you said you were going to show us some kind of answer to the problems of overcrowding . |
| 3 | We were coming to see you last night , and then all day so he said it were n't fair to go anywhere like he was . |
| 4 | - While the government broke the strike , they were unable to destroy the union and were forced to concede it legal recognition . |
| 5 | On Tuesday night last the ‘ Dream Team ’ were trying to make it three wins in a row . |
| 6 | In a letter to my wife I said that it looked as if my job was to try to give them new faith and hope . |
| 7 | So she went with the architect and he was wanting to show us this kind of and we were like , were cold and were back to the hotel , we did n't even go into the house . |
| 8 | However , an effort was made to give them some kind of compensation , by extending the provision of the afa ( beans , rice and sugar rations ) beyond the initial emergency period , and offering them free transport and free spectacles . |
| 9 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 10 | She was going to need it any moment now . |
| 11 | Meaning that , if he had n't managed to earn respect during his lifetime , no amount afterwards was going to do him any good . |
| 12 | In fact , she was going to do it this morning . |
| 13 | I was going to do it this morning and bring and for the box that they have the old prayer I think going up to Yugoslavia soon |
| 14 | That I was going to visit you each night ? |
| 15 | The time was 9 a.m. , the sky was clear and blue , and nothing was going to stop me this time . |
| 16 | I was greatly relieved , both because this decision was going to save me endless work in revision and because I knew that if all my marks over the year were taken into account I should not have any problem in passing . |
| 17 | Well I was going to put him some dinner out and he 'll have to heat it up again I think . |
| 18 | ‘ As a fund-raiser , you can never take no for an answer and no one was going to put me six feet under . ’ |
| 19 | Right , so , if it was going to cost me twenty pound a month for fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , and I wanted to pay it annually , I 'd have to pay it twelve times , I 'd have to pay two hundred and forty pounds . |
| 20 | Was going to tell her this morning , but when I came downstairs and saw her packing up that cake — when I remembered he was going to be there , that I 'd have to see his smug damned face , hear that ghastly loud laugh of his … |
| 21 | I 'd made up my mind that I was going to tell you last night . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I was going to bring you some flowers , ’ he said awkwardly , ‘ but the flower stall was closed at the station . ’ |
| 23 | I suppose this is more of a forewarning than a request for permission , as I was going to send them this week anyway . |
| 24 | Would you , if your soccer partner was getting to know you marital partner in a way which is not optimally conducive to homely bliss . |
| 25 | ‘ I was asked to bring you these papers . ’ |
| 26 | The new arrangements had been due for introduction on April 1 but the Government was forced to shelve them last month after dentists threatened a mass exodus from the NHS . |
| 27 | Israel , which was hoping to win US congressional approval during 1991 for loans worth some US$10,000 million , had also been actively seeking contributions from Germany . |
| 28 | I was trying to find him some couple of pairs of socks but I could n't find anything I liked . |
| 29 | If we believed in omens or portents , then I think we should have taken notice of some of the things someone or something was trying to tell us that June day . |
| 30 | We may take the ambiguity to imply that Wordsworth was unwilling to admit that the visionary gleam was entirely self-deception , and was trying to have it both ways . |