Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently Alice had told her that I were going to town with them |
| 2 | ‘ Thought you were bleeding to death ? |
| 3 | Newcastle , well I put , I thought you were staying to tea so I put six eggs on |
| 4 | It was smelly inside , made you feel as though you were choking to death and the eye-holes so small you could n't see out properly . |
| 5 | You know you were going to shopping . |
| 6 | ‘ And I thought you were going to bed . ’ |
| 7 | Now do you actually remember going to work , the first day you were , you were going to work ? |
| 8 | And what what was school like when you you were going to school ? |
| 9 | Did you go out before you were coming to bed ? |
| 10 | ‘ I wish to God you were coming to college , too , ’ Benny said suddenly . |
| 11 | Another thing I said to Caliban the other day — we were listening to jazz — I said , do n't you dig this ? and he said , in the garden . |
| 12 | For we were going to sea . |
| 13 | He 'd put his mind to it that he would n't , you know this he had it in mind that we were going to work for this thirty pound a week less , take it or leave it . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , as we were going to press , due to the escalation of the war and increasing press restrictions , our reporter in Saudi Arabia was unable to submit her article . |
| 15 | AS we were going to press , a fifth candidate for the East Hampshire constituency was announced . |
| 16 | As we were going to press , the ICC announced its decisions on a number of matters . |
| 17 | ‘ Originally we were going to self finance , ’ says Simon Church . |
| 18 | ‘ I think it 's about time we were going to chapel , Madam ’ , said her companion . |
| 19 | If we were going to cave in it would have been today . |
| 20 | I thought we were going to town tomorrow ? |
| 21 | Well , what we were going to sort of do , is similar to what you lot did , but it kinda came out wrong . |
| 22 | And most of you are probably aware that last year the the company tried to renege on their P L C P L C status and buy out existing shareholders erm and the furore surrounding that erm the price that they were trying to repurchase the shares from the existing shareholders er caused a lot of discontentment er surrounding that scenario . |
| 23 | The party 's spin-doctors had remained sceptical about the polls , but they were expecting to be able to argue that the Conservatives had lost their mandate , even if they were clinging to power in a hung parliament . |
| 24 | The Sikhs , ignoring him , had been digging steadily for hours ; now they were beginning to shovel up wet earth . |
| 25 | And they netted £10,000 from generous customers who believed they were donating to charity . |
| 26 | As Pathfinders they had the extra advantage of being able to use all the latest radar equipment to enable them to see through the layers of cloud , and when they were talking to Met Officers we would hear mysterious references to ‘ Gee ’ and ‘ H2S ’ . |
| 27 | They were going to Benediction . |
| 28 | Constance asked Ludovico , as they were going to bed that night . |
| 29 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 30 | Mm some people decided they were going to work as a , as a group on their table , to gather information and when you were doing the tallies last week , you helped each other did n't you , some of you helped , you were talking to one another to help make sure that you got the right number of tallies , if you worked with some other people to get the survey questions and do the tallies , sign it , if you did everything on your own , leave it blank is anyone not sure what to do there ? |