Example sentences of "was going [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For an awful moment I thought he was going to drive over the edge , but he stopped abruptly and we all got out . |
| 2 | I did n't see how I was going to live with the memory of him as it was ; I thought there must be something we could do , just something ; even one friendly lunch together might help . |
| 3 | He was going to wait in the corridor until Kopyion came out , and he would confront him . |
| 4 | The things she was going to need for the baby ! |
| 5 | In the end , they shipped us out because I was going to complain about the doctor . |
| 6 | Like Powdermaker ( 1967 ) , who recorded fieldnotes in Mississippi only when she was away from her field data , I found I only took notes at the time if I was willing to risk begin interrogated about what I was going to do with the information I was recording . |
| 7 | It 's possible I knew subconsciously all along what I was going to do with the gun . |
| 8 | Ross had , in fact , been quite right — and what she was going to do about the problem , she simply had no idea . |
| 9 | ‘ Some of the other customers stood up and demanded to know what the Chancellor was going to do about the economy , ’ says proprietor Moziruddin Ahmed , who was far too discreet to say whether Mr Lamont paid by Access . |
| 10 | Maurice was going to continue along the path but Wycliffe stopped him . |
| 11 | how long the employment was going to last in the absence of sickness ( a short-term contract is more likely to be frustrated than a job expected to last for the foreseeable future ) ; |
| 12 | She was going to swim in the lake , alone , because both Nick and her father had expressly forbidden it . |
| 13 | I was going to say about the mother of parliament . |
| 14 | I had already made up my mind what I was going to say by the time Frankie had rapped on the door . |
| 15 | When he did , his eyes narrowed and for a moment Kelly thought he was going to bound across the room and hit her . |
| 16 | Schaffer was going to move into the cloakroom and take a look through the window , but as he grabbed his binoculars from the office there was a polite knock on the thick outer door which resounded through the hollow space of the building . |
| 17 | Last April , Kathleen informed us all that she was going to retire in the autumn . |
| 18 | Standing back from the main road , surrounded by green grass , was the memorial to those men of the village and the surrounding hamlets who had died during the Great War , and behind the memorial was the primary school which I was going to join in the course of the next few days . |
| 19 | ‘ How futile to announce that some great lead to thought was going to emerge from the mountain of memoranda discussed at high pressure by exhausted delegates . ’ |
| 20 | I knew I had to do something or I was going to crack from the fear . |
| 21 | I have looked around the faces before games in the past wondering who was going to go to the wire with a home crowd after your blood , never mind the opposition . |
| 22 | Phoebe had decided she was going to lie about the amount she drank . |
| 23 | Now he was going to talk to the man himself . |
| 24 | The newsmen thought he was going to talk about the club 's prospects for the new soccer season . |
| 25 | Then they hit the main road and he opened the bike up and for an awful second she thought she was going to slide off the back . |
| 26 | If the Formalist definition of its object was going to allow for the specificity of literary studies , the Formalists regarded it as necessarily entailing the exclusion of all mimetic and expressive definitions of literature . |
| 27 | She 'd already decided what she was going to cook for Rohan — home-made tomato soup to begin with , then le rosbif with all the trimmings , although she was going to cheat on the dessert and buy one of the beautifully glazed tartes aux pommes from a pâtisserie . |
| 28 | Yes , quite , quite , out , I think I thought it was going to shudder against the post and the hoop and |
| 29 | For a little while I was afraid I was going to land in the middle of a town , but I mercifully drifted to the edge of this . |
| 30 | Claudia followed him , wondering if he was going to crowd into the phone box with her , but he remained outside and she dialled Dana 's number , her heart beating wildly . |