Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well WE 'RE not … were going to leave it to the strong men … something different too … the first ever weightlifting world cup for the disabled . |
| 2 | And they were going to throw it on the scrap heap but somebody in the mill the said , that was the bicycle that Adam had made . |
| 3 | Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time . |
| 4 | Belinda wondered how on earth they were going to get it up the stairs and through the house , but she sensibly decided that it was their concern , not hers , and anyway the bedroom needed to be vacuumed first . |
| 5 | They were trying to back it into a stable but the magnificent beast was all set to charge . |
| 6 | Our meals now regularly consisted of hummus , salad , chips and often meat , chicken or fried steak ( which George called ‘ buffteak ’ which was closer to the mark — and particularly apt when we were trying to cut it with the inevitable plastic knife ) , and glasses of Pepsi . |
| 7 | For a moment , Implexion thought she meant their affair and was attempting to push it into the realms of firm commitment . |
| 8 | Before the Tate/LaBianca murders happened , however , Charles Manson was attempting to make it as a rock star . |
| 9 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 10 | I was going to write it on the board for you |
| 11 | ‘ I think from then on it was fairly clear that he was going to make it to the very top , ’ one retired civil servant recalled . |
| 12 | If you 've been contemplating the unthinkable just because Lemmings did n't look like it was going to make it to the C64 , think again ! |
| 13 | She had to get a move on if she was going to make it to the city before noon . |
| 14 | When an hour later she did surface , she knew at once that there was no way she was going to make it to the office on time . |
| 15 | She was just a young kid fronting a band , determined she was going to make it to the top — like her idol . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't even think about about the decathlon again until Duncan Mathieson , another one of Jim 's group down here , started going on about being the only one who was going to make it to the World Student Games . |
| 17 | Having him there at the beginning was simply a stroke of luck so colossal that Henry 's natural pessimism was trying to turn it into a disaster . |
| 18 | He was trying to move it off the path . |
| 19 | I just wonder what 's I last I heard they were the receiver was trying to pull it into the collapse but er |
| 20 | When I asked Dad he mumbled something about entertaining so maybe he was planning to turn it into a theatre or something . |
| 21 | The opposition had persistently opposed such a change , arguing that Roh — who was constitutionally prohibited from serving more than one five-year term as President — was planning to use it as a means of retaining power . |