Example sentences of "they [was/were] not [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although members of the community dressed alike , the women in black robes , they were not bound to celibacy . |
| 2 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at |
| 6 | 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 . |