Example sentences of "going [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect that some of the drug barons who shell out money in support of what must be a pretty costly operation regard the academically-minded staff of the OHE as a bunch of eggheads , not to say ‘ wets ’ , who ought to be earning their keep by polishing up the industry 's somewhat tarnished image , and by encouraging sales , instead of spending their time and the companies ' profits on airy-fairy projects which are n't going to rustle up a pennyworth of business . |
| 2 | Erm , if you erm , maybe erase part of entries of the spreadsheet , you think , oh that 's going to free up a lot of memory , er , probably it wo n't . |
| 3 | Only a handful of players from their original selection turned out , the management obviously having decided that they were not going to give even a hint of their championship formation . |
| 4 | One member of the pair was told by his/her partner ‘ I am going to read out a list of words to you . |
| 5 | I 'm now going to read out a number of interests . |
| 6 | ‘ I hear you 're going to inherit quite a lot of money . ’ |
| 7 | Yes bear in mind that that of course , that you 're going to get quite a lot of adult audience going through it as well as kids of course . |
| 8 | I am going to raise later a number of missing parts that I I . |
| 9 | It was beginning to dawn on Hoomey that horses like this — surely ? — were going to need quite a lot of attention , feeding , brushing and all that stuff . |
| 10 | You know this is going to take quite a bit of getting used to , ’ he complained . |
| 11 | The museums are going to take quite a lot of time . |
| 12 | I realize , now that I think about it , that even our weekend walks in the countryside around London , with their characteristic mixture of dullness and reassurance , are going to take quite a lot of analysis . |
| 13 | Christmas fillers you see , so I , she , cos I 've , I 'm going to make a couple of fruit cakes , I said well I was going to bring in a couple of fruit cakes and said if you need them not , if not I said I 'll take them back I thought no way is Sue gon na eat them , eat cakes like she did last year , or year before |
| 14 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |