Example sentences of "[was/were] never going to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Charles , waiting his turn at the public telephone box on the corner by his billet , that they were never going to be able to meet again . |
| 2 | ‘ It was general knowledge that Swithlands operated such a policy and it was plain men were never going to be offered positions on the sales force , ’ he said . |
| 3 | If we could n't get our act together after all that , then we were never going to . |
| 4 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
| 5 | And Preston knew that William knew what the rest of them had known , or suspected , for some months : that he and his mother were never going to America and that the Master Sergeant was never coming back . |
| 6 | He looked around and saw a great many faces all wearing the same expression , an expression stating that they were never going to be surprised by anything in history and that they had already had every thought that was ever going to be in his head . |
| 7 | If that was true , it occurred to her that he had n't really believed what she had told him tonight , but whether he did nor not , it did n't alter the central fact that they were never going to be lovers . |
| 8 | Jordan — My world caved in when he went , basically because he wanted to better himself financially and because he thought Leeds were never going to be a force under Jimmmy Armfield . |
| 9 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 10 | Shifting to a patient-driven health system was never going to be easy — especially not for the Tories . |
| 11 | He was never going to be Pavarotti , but there was something about him that made him great . ’ |
| 12 | I was never going to be a replacement for his wife , just a diversion , and I hope that , if he thinks of me at all , it is with the same shiver of half-remembered pleasure with which I think of him . |
| 13 | ‘ He was extremely drunk and in a stupor when he attempted the crime — which was never going to work . |
| 14 | Liverpool may have been five goals up from the first leg , but this was never going to be an easy game in 70-degree heat and on a typically bumpy Mediterranean pitch . |
| 15 | ‘ The alternative was putting in a bleep , and that was never going to work . |
| 16 | ‘ But what was quickly very clear was that the oil scene was never going to be the same again . |
| 17 | IT WAS NEVER going to be an easy Christmas . |
| 18 | Damn her own voice for shaking , but she had known this was never going to be easy . |
| 19 | I fought against it , but when you went away , and stayed away , despite all my letters and calls , I knew that there was never going to be any chance for me . ’ |
| 20 | It was never going to be a career for me but kept me in beer money and taught me about how to deal with the public . ’ |
| 21 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 22 | He knew he was never going to be good enough for Formula One but his father would n't listen . |
| 23 | This was never going to work ! |
| 24 | I had put Unidentified Flying Objects right back on the agenda where they belonged , and , from this day forth , the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist was never going to be the same again . |
| 25 | He thought he was never going to be able to get it out of his mind . |
| 26 | Introducing market-like mechanisms into a planned system of health care was never going to be easy . |
| 27 | Suzi was never going to backpack round the world or become a rock star , and if she had been forced to go and live away from home — to study nursing , for instance — she 'd have mouldered away from homesickness . |
| 28 | Whelan showed considerable grace and skill up front but the strategy of putting high balls into the West Ham box was never going to work with their defensive blanket , and a highly competent goalie . |
| 29 | He did not gel with Chapman , and was never going to be a direct replacement , so I could n't see where he was going to fit in long-term . |
| 30 | Second division , Swansea away in the cup was never going to be an easy ticket for Oxford , but when Nick Cusack scored with just over 10 minutes to go at the Vetch Field , United looked a good bet for the 4th round . |