Example sentences of "was go [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me he was going to shoot the whole works , no holds barred . |
| 2 | They never showed any sign of having doubts that I was going to give the total commitment required to be a full time board member . |
| 3 | For a moment I thought Clara was going to give the old woman a piece of her mind . |
| 4 | For an instant Fox was going to hit the little idiot , but the impulse faded . |
| 5 | Norma said that she was going to spend the best part of the day as the guest of the Mayoress of Brighton — lunch in the Royal Pavilion — and then tea at the Marina . |
| 6 | His small recording company , as he explained only too often , had gone into voluntary liquidation , leaving him with just enough to manage nicely , and he was going to spend the cold weather in his house in Purley . |
| 7 | I was going to say the same thing . |
| 8 | I was going to lock the back door make sure that down |
| 9 | He was going to kill the evil headster whatever he did . |
| 10 | She was going to visit the primary schools , right ? |
| 11 | Her father nodded his approval and for one moment Rachel thought he was going to ask the new MO 's name . |
| 12 | She was going to use the sainted patience ploy , the one he found most difficult to handle . |
| 13 | Which would obviously be a necessary change to make if it was going to relieve the western bypass . |
| 14 | There was no way I was going to sell the little guy out . |
| 15 | Get rid of erm you really aught not to have dark walls you really aught to have erm pale we was going to paint the whole house white . |
| 16 | was going to extend the proposed L.R.T. system as far as Comber once this study was completed . |
| 17 | He gave both Ranulf and Maltote careful instructions ; he was going to inspect the burnt-out novice house . |
| 18 | I was going to raise the very question you raised . |
| 19 | [ … ] And I saw a man who was holding a stick , and I believed that he was going to castigate the bad violins , for I heard many of them … |
| 20 | She could n't think how she was going to enter the Commercial Hotel , not unless accompanied or pushed . |
| 21 | In the dark front of the car Molly felt another tingle of excitement , as though , in her childhood fantasies of detection she had found , at the scene of a crime , a clue which was going to unlock the whole mystery . |
| 22 | She was damned if she was going to make the first move . |
| 23 | He had made the point : he was going to strengthen the musical possibilities of his opera by creating a sound picture of paradise from which would bleed the eventualities of the real and actual world . |
| 24 | She was going to learn the hard way about the book , he was determined about that . |
| 25 | And as a result of doing all these things , ad nauseam , one had begun to believe something which now , with the benefit of hindsight , appears utterly incredible : that Labour was going to win the general election . |
| 26 | For a fraction of a second it looked as though it were going to be just that , he 'd vaulted too hard and he was going to overshoot the small terrace and land on the ugly hard shapes of the garden furniture in the basement courtyard beneath . |
| 27 | He was damned if he was going to code the easy way , using the computer . |
| 28 | Normally he handed over responsibility for the routine maintenance of their relationship to Ellen , but she was letting him down , so he was going to try the only technique he knew : drop some explosive overboard and see what floated to the surface . |