Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Tuesday night last the ‘ Dream Team ’ were trying to make it three wins in a row . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was going to need it any moment now . |
| 4 | In fact , she was going to do it this morning . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |