Example sentences of "[vb past] they [was/were] [verb] [to] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh and something else I heard yeah and this does n't get anywhere cos Lucy erm told me and did n't tell anyone but erm she was talking to Tom about erm Laura and Dave and apparently s while George and erm Dave were going out they actually planned they were gon na get back together . |
| 2 | I thought they were gon na ring you |
| 3 | It galvanized lots , lots of Conservative voters quite simply thought they were gon na lose so they went out and voted . |
| 4 | and I thought they were gon na say beam them up Scottie . |
| 5 | I thought they were gon na play some music and let them dance ! |
| 6 | She thought they were gon na get married . |
| 7 | er and that is what the peasants wanted I mean th th that was what they thought they were gon na get out of revolution , that was what they wanted to get out of revolution |
| 8 | has n't started driving yet , but if for instance , erm , I 've left my car out , just left it in , in the way , cos nobody nobody said they were gon na go out and all of a sudden they wan na go out before I get up or something , fucking this cars reversing here , fucking everywhere , but that , and that |
| 9 | But right , you said they were gon na change my exam . |
| 10 | I 'm waiting for Tesco 's to foreclose on what they said they were gon na do . |
| 11 | Erm , when the new town was first proposed and erm , and they you know said they were gon na build up houses and that , what did you think ? |
| 12 | Cos they said they were gon na sell it then they changed their mind , they were gon na pull it down |