Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] going to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To tell a child that he was automatically going to heaven , would not be biblical |
| 32 | It would have been stupid to say I was n't going to sleep with him , because I knew I would . |
| 33 | However , as the medical picture became more clear , there became more and more a sense of underlying tension , with heroic care being delivered by people possessing the knowledge that it was n't going to work . |
| 34 | There was always the point in the conversation where we knew it just was n't going to work . |
| 35 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 36 | It was n't going to work . |
| 37 | There and then Robbie vowed that his little plan was n't going to work . |
| 38 | But it was n't going to work . |
| 39 | I was n't going to court to get the order reduced , just stopped for a while until I get a job . |
| 40 | That 's why I was n't going to hand this out right at the beginning , because I wanted to make you work at it a bit more , er , then you can , when you 've got those two versions written underneath . |
| 41 | ‘ He was extremely drunk and in a stupor when he attempted the crime — which was never going to work . |
| 42 | ‘ The alternative was putting in a bleep , and that was never going to work . |
| 43 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 44 | This was never going to work ! |
| 45 | Whelan showed considerable grace and skill up front but the strategy of putting high balls into the West Ham box was never going to work with their defensive blanket , and a highly competent goalie . |
| 46 | Suzi was never going to backpack round the world or become a rock star , and if she had been forced to go and live away from home — to study nursing , for instance — she 'd have mouldered away from homesickness . |