Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were just pretending to him , because I ai n't really full of beans . |
| 2 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 3 | I do n't know why , but it seemed important to me to establish that we have n't any fuse-boxes ( and indeed we have n't ) , but she would n't allow this and was quite stern with me about it as if I were deliberately lying to her . |
| 4 | You were just pandering to prejudices — ‘ |
| 5 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 6 | If you were now talking to each other tonight round the table in the restaurant or at the bar in the hotel okay . |
| 7 | and he probably would n't mind that you were only going to be there for a year or two you know he 's getting |
| 8 | Before , we were just listening to everybody else telling us to keep on playing and carry on doing this and that , but that was really just because they were afraid we were going to be a flash in the pan . |
| 9 | on that to sort of show you the power of the system we were just using to erm The obvious thing to do is to label every area of the diagram , and do n't forget they do sometimes say , Seven were not interested in |
| 10 | But I know that er the one or two people who told me that they 're going , er we were just going to the service in the church and then |
| 11 | He probably realised we were just going to sea . |
| 12 | They reached the surgery door at the same time as the strange little group and , as they ushered their client in , he said , ‘ We were just going to Sheldrake and Woodall when we saw your plate on Broom House gate . ’ |
| 13 | Maybe it was going to be like the Cultural Revolution in China and we were all going to be given the chance to team up with the aliens . |
| 14 | well we were actually going to be going through the Halifax but have you got any other suggestions ? |
| 15 | But only the or the project manager would know what we were actually going to be made . |
| 16 | Because it is ground offensive in sand , you want to be able to see that if you 're being shot , we could n't we could n't do that , and it became questionable whether we were actually going to be able to see the ground or not , so we called it aboard . |
| 17 | So the management looked at the , the thing very critically and they , they designed a new stabilizer erm which did away with the whole housing , which did away with the cross er crossheads and the slides and it was so easily produced er that we were then seeking to , to sales representatives to go out and look for other work . |
| 18 | We were only according to me ! |
| 19 | We were only going to be in 24 hours so we would n't bother having a meal we 'd have a slap up on the way out , ’ said Michael . |
| 20 | No , well we 've got the bulk , we were only going to be in Woking an hour . |
| 21 | We were late getting to Doris 's party on Christmas Eve , because Toby and I had a sort of row . |
| 22 | ‘ We were always trying to be creative and to shock ! ’ |
| 23 | I thought it was a big world , for we were always going to conventions and special meetings where , so it seemed then , there were thousands of others like myself . |
| 24 | Now ‘ I 've Got My Mojo Working ’ does n't go down with everyone , but at that time there were a few people around who did like that kind of stuff , and we were hopefully appealing to them . ’ |
| 25 | If we could n't get our act together after all that , then we were never going to . |
| 26 | Companies were asked whether or not they were already selling to the Japanese market . |
| 27 | There was no doubt that he was the first of an avalanche of Swedish players who might do to the golf circuits of the world what they were already doing to the tennis circuit . |
| 28 | Ralph and Piggy were the first characters to be mentioned in the book therefore you knew that they were either going to be friends or enemies . |
| 29 | When Diana joined the Stewart-Richardsons they were just coming to terms with a family tragedy . |
| 30 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |