Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] i [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Heathrow Wendy Hoyte was being met by her husband Les and they were going to give me a lift back into London . |
| 2 | ‘ For a moment then I thought you were going to give me a different name . |
| 3 | But then the lady came back on again — you know , the one who spoke to me first — and she said ‘ Thank you very much , ’ and she told me they were going to send me a prize of — wait for it — 5 . |
| 4 | Yes , I have at last , and the I 'm sure that they lied in their teeth , they they assured me they had written to me after my second letter in March , er in fact , and they said they were going to send me a photocopy of that , in fact er she wrote me a letter in June , so I do n't believe the other one existed , |
| 5 | I recently had a liver transplant at Addenbrooke 's Hospital and still feel guilty that inevitably the decision was made to give me a liver rather than someone else whose life expectancy may have been marginally longer . |
| 6 | So Mum told me she was going to leave me a bit more than she had originally planned . |
| 7 | He then accepted this and he told me he was going to pay me the other £2,500 in Turkey in Turkish money . ’ |
| 8 | He could n't actually tell me what was going on because that would put him in shtuck but he was trying to tip me the wink . |
| 9 | He used to send me postcards from abroad and he popped in when ‘ Bizarro ’ was released to give me a copy , ’ says Graham Williams , the journalist who wrote the paper 's weekly pop column . |