Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were we on coke when we said , in the summer , that we were going to go for the sonnet ? ’ |
| 2 | Already early on this Saturday morning he and his pupils were beginning to prepare for the banquet in the Imperial kitchens . |
| 3 | The things she was going to need for the baby ! |
| 4 | If the Formalist definition of its object was going to allow for the specificity of literary studies , the Formalists regarded it as necessarily entailing the exclusion of all mimetic and expressive definitions of literature . |
| 5 | ‘ We were scared the bell was going to ring for the end of classes , ’ says Sylvain Souillon . |
| 6 | They supposed that one sex was going to care for the eggs , but that selection on both sexes would make them , if possible , desert the eggs and thus force the other sex into doing the work . |
| 7 | And so , if it came to that , would George , whose only worry when the tree toppled was who was going to pay for the damage . |
| 8 | I asked who was going to pay for the call . |
| 9 | When the respondent returned he was challenged but insisted that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 10 | He was challenged by the warehouseman but he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 11 | When he was challenged by the warehouseman , he assured him that he was going to pay for the goods . |
| 12 | Er I told him I was going to try for the Co-op . |
| 13 | He had already won the Forte PGA Seniors ' two years in a row and was aiming to qualify for the US Senior Tour last year . |
| 14 | Mr Reynolds said his government was continuing to press for the negotiating between loyalist and nationalist politicians to be renewed as soon as possible . |
| 15 | Eating spaghetti , Clare began to suspect that James would rather talk about a relationship than have one ; wolfing boeuf bourguignon , she wondered whether James was flaunting his insecurities in order to attract the maternal feelings he clearly believed nestled within every woman 's breast- and from which Clare was trying to escape for the evening . |
| 16 | He was trying to qualify for the Spring Satellite , but he returned in time to defeat Simon Bramwell ( Herts ) , in the final round . |