Example sentences of "[was/were] go [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , I knocked down the girders that were to go to develop a new pit which would come from Monktonhall into those reserves . |
| 2 | You were goin' to make a tart , were n't you ? |
| 3 | She thought of the long , black car gliding up to the great white building where they were going to hold the conference that would put an end to war for ever . |
| 4 | The firms with the best teams — analysts , jobbers , corporate lawyers , financial PR men , whatever — those were the firms who were going to set the going rate and get it . |
| 5 | Dandelion told me you were going to leave the warren tonight . |
| 6 | So I told them that we were going to leave the park , and go and get a nice cold ice-cream . |
| 7 | The South Africans arrived claiming they were going to teach the Welsh pack about power play but Gary Llewellyn 's men blew them apart and the Welsh forwards bagged four of the tries . |
| 8 | The pilot , frantically trying to avoid disaster , felt his craft tilt and knew the big rotors were going to hit the gatehouse before they actually did . |
| 9 | I was more interested in how we were going to reach the sea , and in how we were going to cross it . |
| 10 | Nearly half of 16-24-year-old smokers questioned in a survey said they were going to quit the habit in the New Year . |
| 11 | I thought the trustees were going to manage the business . |
| 12 | ‘ You were going to let the tyres down ? ’ |
| 13 | So there was way they were going to let the standard bearer go on his own and face all these fierce fighters . |
| 14 | Now she knew beyond any doubt that they were going to spend the rest of the evening together . |
| 15 | They were going to spend the day in the forest , gathering mushrooms and wild strawberries . |
| 16 | If I were going to spend the time and effort to write a book , I wanted it to get to as many people as possible . |
| 17 | when we send it back in a few days fitting , this job I says we 'll want it early in the morning and you can have it in the afternoon , but we were going to spend the day in Liverpool , but you 're dad said , I 'm not being round all those shops all day , so I said ooh no ! |
| 18 | As the unashamedly extravagant Continental R in the most outrageous shade of red majestically revolved on the stand to an upbeat and immensely loud recording of ‘ Land Of Hope And Glory ’ the last thing on anyone 's mind was how the CFCs in the air conditioning were going to rip the ozone to pieces . |
| 19 | We were going to use a four-second snatch of The Hokey-Cokey , and were quoted £3,000 . |
| 20 | We were going to use the latter — extracellular recording electrodes . |
| 21 | ‘ Michael 's a brilliant lyricist , he can talk about things that matter without it being obvious , so when we got together there was no way we were going to do a creamy , greasy duet . |
| 22 | I just wondered is any of them were were going to do a better job than |
| 23 | See what see what you can do and perhaps er Jane you could just look into the possibility of erm because if I mean if we were going to do a run of pens we would n't just have a thousand would we ? |
| 24 | In hospital they told me they were going to do a routine examination and that it was going to be a twist in the scrotum or it was going to be a tumour ; and it might be benign or it might be malignant . |
| 25 | We were going to do a lot more work |
| 26 | Incidentally a trap here is to feel guilty when you find that you have given up doing the exercises that you so fervently swore you were going to do every day . |
| 27 | Damon and Lee lit up cigarettes of their own at St John 's Wood , which they placed between the doors , and Chris and Kevin were going to do the same at Baker Street . |
| 28 | Now we were going to do The Holly and The Ivy , but that 's why the carol crept in . |
| 29 | It was n't my intention originally to go to the flat , it was my intention to reconnoitre the area in order that I could supply the officers who were going to do the actual operation with up to date information as to erm the methods of getting in to the block of flats because they had a coded key door erm and to acquaint myself of the actual physical erm presence of lifts , stairways and that sort of thing . |
| 30 | ‘ Some friends who were with me on holiday in Romania talked about the idea and when they contacted me this year saying they were going to do the ride I told them I was more than willing to join them , ’ said Karen , who teaches at Applegarth Primary School , Northallerton . |