Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 7 | The record high interest rates were attractive to holders of sterling even though they were also damaging to business . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | ‘ Some of them were still standing to attention as they fell . |