Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , then half an hour after Albert rung up to say that you were n't coming to work , so I were right in shit ! |
| 2 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 3 | He probably realised we were just going to sea . |
| 4 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 5 | They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them . |
| 6 | In other words , er they were n't trying to sort of scrape it together to actually repay your , repay your twelve thousand pound wh loan at the end of twenty years . |
| 7 | Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at |
| 8 | At 9 p.m. the women sat down in the common room and said they were n't going to bed until the heating was fixed . |
| 9 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 10 | The record high interest rates were attractive to holders of sterling even though they were also damaging to business . |
| 11 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 12 | ‘ Some of them were still standing to attention as they fell . |