Example sentences of "[vb past] they [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they netted £10,000 from generous customers who believed they were donating to charity . |
| 2 | At some stage in their lives they decided they were going to be a winner not a loser . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Erm , they write down nothing , they remember nothing , and I have to phone these clowns every other day , to make sure that they 're doing what we agreed they 're going to , otherwise I have no panels next month for my stand , and I would be up the creek . |
| 5 | ’ Nappy Wars ’ hit the headlines in January , when Peaudouce and Procter & Gamble announced they were moving to unbleached paper . |
| 6 | I thought they were pretending to be offended — but people were honestly upset by it and I was flabbergasted . ’ |
| 7 | And I thought they were going to the meeting er on Friday because I knew they were both off |
| 8 | When Bill and Kevin and I looked at how we could cope with appraisal in our division , the numbers did n't work out as badly at least as I thought they were going to originally . |
| 9 | I thought they were planning to er make term time only . |
| 10 | And and he said er , I think he said they 're going to Manchester |
| 11 | He said they were reacting to public pressure , and that the majority of people did not support Sunday opening . |
| 12 | Others living at the house said they were waiting to be reunited with Marita and her Mr Loren to find out exactly what happened . |
| 13 | They said they were going to the local pub for a meal if I 'd like to join them . |
| 14 | Somebody erm said they were going to , and it was n't me so it was one of you three , said they were going to check if the ball was having a speaker this year . |
| 15 | Pickerage said they were going to Frome 's house , but they did n't . |
| 16 | This odd instructor shouted at them constantly in a tone of voice that suggested they were clinging to a ledge hundreds of feet above a lava-filled crater , being pursued by leathery-skinned trolls . |