Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [verb] [to] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , these metal strips are down there for the public entertainment license , they were n't gon na give us it because the carpet was lifting . |
| 2 | their high tea , were n't bothered about high tea , but still , er then , they 'd have , they might have a supper because she ai n't been a work , their elderly , they perhaps have a good tea , the they , they went to bed at nine and they said if I was reading something , they said , you know turn the gas out when you come up and , there you are well you can see , if one landlady gave me egg for me lunch that I had n't had , they not , they were n't gon na feed you up at supper time were they ? |
| 3 | I was hoping they were n't gon na put it on a silly day |
| 4 | Yeah , but you actually know that they were n't gon na have a |
| 5 | The Euro Cities Conference was also important because it was the founding of that organisation formally and it was important to go there and say to the big monopoly that 's emerging between some of the Western European cities , the big six , Birmingham , Barcelona , Frankfurt , Rotterdam , Milan and Strasbourg , that they were n't gon na get it all their own way and they were n't going to monopolise those funds that were available for links with Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | They were only gon na ring us if there was anything wrong and I had this horrible feeling at that point that that was the vet ringing up to say things had gone wrong . |
| 7 | I heard they was maybe gon na start up another magazine . |