Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [to] [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | But erm , I have n't seen much of her at all this week , because erm , they 've all been out , I mean , they went up to London to see Miss Saigon , and they were gon na go out for a meal up there , and |
| 3 | No , I 've been and spoken to them again this morning and yesterday , R S C left it there not O S D although it 's O S D's van , so they should 've come out to move it on Friday and the mechanics did n't turn up , then they lost the keys , cos yesterday myself and who was it , Lyn , waited up for the keys cos they were gon na move down put it into a safer spot . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | That 's where the union headquarters were you know , and because I was a local man and had worked at Cranfield loading trucks at the dockside , I knew , knew a lot of the dock labourers , and they knew me , and I used to know each morning what the strikers were likely to do , where they were gon na hold up Eastern Counties buses and so on I used to know all that , and of course the duty inspectors used to purposely send me along . |
| 6 | They were gon na phone up |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | No some other people were saying about that , you know , ah that they , you know that they were gon na put in for it but they would n't let them cos it was shop , you know , blah blah blah . |
| 10 | Everybody was standing , they was gon na go out . |