Example sentences of "[pron] be going [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rockwell wrote to his brother : ‘ Prince and I are going to fly ten hours tomorrow , and we 'll do our best to kill one or two Germans for Victor . ’ |
| 2 | Alexandra walked over to the door and when her hand was upon the handle , turned and said , ‘ I am going to obliterate this conversation in my memory of your visit . |
| 3 | I am going to lay some parquet panels on a suspended timber floor . |
| 4 | This does n't mean I am going to abandon representational art . |
| 5 | This does n't mean I am going to abandon representational art . |
| 6 | I also have a jet-ski which is good for fitness but I am going to sell that and buy a boat with my father . |
| 7 | ‘ The thing is , ’ she said , after a moment 's hesitation , ‘ that I am going to sell this house . ’ |
| 8 | So , I am going to spend another two minutes telling you why I have always loved trains and railways . |
| 9 | I am going to spend some time with my family . ’ |
| 10 | Similarly , if I tell you that I am going to move this piece of chalk in front of me , and I demonstrate look here goes right okay , same piece of chalk has moved across in front of me . |
| 11 | I am going to illustrate these ideas by a brief discussion of neurons in the retina of the rabbit . |
| 12 | ‘ I am going to destroy this spawn of Set . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I am going to slit that bitch 's throat for a start ! ’ |
| 14 | I am going to hang some heavy wooded gates . |
| 15 | I am going to light another candle now , for the first one is guttering in gold . |
| 16 | I am going to leave this job . |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't think I am going to wear that trash , do you ? ’ she had said when the great day came ; and wondered why he had ‘ got into one of his passionate tempers ’ ( poor little disappointed boy ! ) |
| 18 | I am going to criticise modern farming methods , I promise you , but before I do it is also worth remembering that the primary beneficiary has been the consumer . |
| 19 | We 're the ones that have said to Jehovah I am dedicating my life to you , I am going to do this , do that and the other and it 's up to us as to whether we do it , so it requires effort , first , five , six , also says let us stay awake , keep our senses first Peter , five , eight keep your senses , be watchful and then first Corinthians , ten , twelve which I think the song was based on let him think that he is standing , beware , beware , beware that he does not fall , if you think things are going along nicely and you 're in a comfortable little corner , a little niche in the truth , and it 's just how you like it , and it 's just the way you want it to be and there 's the time we need to be aware because there 's an opening for Satan to get into to make us fall . |
| 20 | People now ask me what I am going to do next . |
| 21 | So I am going to go this way round , right , and I 'm going to take some doughnuts . |
| 22 | Richard Baxter summed up his life in these words , ‘ Weakness and pain helped me to study how to die ; that set me on studying how to live ; beginning with necessities , I proceeded by degrees , and now I am going to see that for which I have lived and studied . ’ |
| 23 | In this and the next chapter I am going to tell two different stories . |
| 24 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 25 | ‘ Then I am going to fetch some water . |
| 26 | This month I am going to cover two problems which most horses will produce at some time or other . |
| 27 | I thought : ‘ I am going to get better ; they may not . ’ |
| 28 | But then I started to think , well at this rate I am going to get pregnant , so I decided to go on the Pill , and that was the month I fell for Lucy . |
| 29 | I am going to get some . |
| 30 | I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable . |