Example sentences of "was [verb] to [adv] [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I was going to just keel over on to your shoulder and blurt it out : I love you , I love you … ’ |
| 2 | Her head was pounding dreadfully , and she had the awful sensation that she was going to actually throw up right in front of him . |
| 3 | He had tricked her , deliberately let her think that they would be going back to the hotel , but if he thought she was going to meekly go along with his conniving then he was going to be sadly disappointed . |
| 4 | was suppose to rapidly back up , he 's twenty-two , born thirtieth June 1969 . |
| 5 | but erm I do n't think Joan , at the time , last night , Joan said that she was a bit too tired to Bob was having to just fit in with that so I do n't know what they 're gon na do . |
| 6 | However , on Good Friday , gang members shot randomly into a street-corner crowd in South Central , killing a 19-year-old woman , and operation ‘ Hammer ’ was mobilised to finally snuff out the problem . |
| 7 | And Sunday 's race — her first marathon since she was forced to wearily pull out after 15 miles in Tokyo — will be an important confidence-booster before the Barcelona Olympics . |
| 8 | Not ghastly things which looked all right in the air but turned into freezing wet stuff which was allowed to just lie around on the floor . |