Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [adv] [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm in no way were we ever going to consider ourselves part of management . |
| 2 | There was also Alec , a prison officer from Wormwood Scrubs ( when he 'd given his address and next of kin on a previous camp everyone had thought he was kidding ) ; Ken , who to everyone 's delight turned up with a guitar ( were we really going to sit round a campfire singing ? ) ; and David , an aircraft engineer who after fifteen years in the Scouts could ‘ do wonderful things with ropes ’ . |
| 3 | Were they really going to use us , and for this ? |
| 4 | Was I really going to marry him , or was it all a dream ? |
| 5 | Under attack on all sides , not least from the infant population which was itself unwittingly helping to spread disease through the narrow streets and alleys of the town , some Frome people found a temporary escape in one or other of the forty or more pubs which vied with each other for custom ; drunkenness was commonplace , and many of those who did n't go to an early grave with some infection or other departed this life with a putrid liver . |
| 6 | Or was she simply going to drive up to the front door and announce herself ? |
| 7 | Was she still trying to retrieve something ? |
| 8 | Was she really going to clear everything out of here ? |
| 9 | Was she now trying to make Robert jealous in his turn ? |
| 10 | Was she actually planning to aid and abet him in this unexpected , meaningless sexual dalliance ? |
| 11 | How was she ever going to leave him ? |
| 12 | How was she ever going to get the chance to think things through if her last sanctuary had been commandeered by an absenting workman ? |
| 13 | How was she ever going to face him again ? |
| 14 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 15 | I just mean after the way he had lived , how was he ever going to convince anybody he was a white man ? |
| 16 | Was he deliberately trying to make her feel even more humiliated ? |
| 17 | Was he really trying to get her drunk ? |
| 18 | And was he really trying to tell her that he really did n't indulge in casual affairs ? |
| 19 | Was he really going to join ship as navigator ? |
| 20 | Was he really going to commit himself to that extent ? |