Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] going to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scene was set for confrontation and as these confrontations continued without an end in sight , it became clear that the usual tactics of the unions were not going to work . |
| 2 | The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all . |
| 3 | They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them . |
| 4 | He probably realised we were just going to sea . |
| 5 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 6 | I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work . |
| 7 | He might have bullied her mother into submission , but those tactics were n't going to work on her any more . |
| 8 | Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at |
| 9 | At 9 p.m. the women sat down in the common room and said they were n't going to bed until the heating was fixed . |
| 10 | Alternatively , if a firm made its issue thinking share prices were indeed going to rocket ( for that is what the low yields implied ) , then it could be worth its while to take the cash and invest it back into equities or other financial instruments . |
| 11 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
| 12 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 13 | Now , at last , here in Hochhauser , looking her best , with her dear , dear friends from the past , she knew it was all going to work . |
| 14 | Well I was only going to sleep Jo , I was n't doing anything , I 'm just tired . |
| 15 | I thought it was better going to drama school direct rather than via a university and if you 're going to act I think that 's the way . |
| 16 | Mellowed by two bottles of beer , he was convinced that Hank was telling the truth ; his mind was already going to work considering how to double that forty thousand . |
| 17 | ‘ I was just going to bed when the police came . |
| 18 | Window firm director Norman Waller , 34 , was just going to bed when he saw youths damaging a Vauxhall Cavalier belong to neighbour Bob Fay , Newcastle Crown Court was told . |
| 19 | I was just going to bed , he said . |
| 20 | I was just going to bingo . |
| 21 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 22 | Sadly , it was not going to work . |
| 23 | My ploy of leading our little group of producers with programme instruction by example was a compromise that was not going to work . |
| 24 | After a moment or two , the maternity nurse , finding that her ruse of trying to get mother and baby more acquainted was not going to work , took him from her . |
| 25 | He thought he had better leave the pistol where it was ; it was much too heavy to carry around if it was not going to work . |
| 26 | Keith Simmons , Alborne 's lethal striker , put them ahead with a goal from the centre spot right on kick-off , and it was immediately obvious that our radical 0-2-7 formation was not going to work . |
| 27 | Robyn raised the glass to her lips and took a first sip ; she had a feeling that counting to ten was not going to work , but she tried it all the same . |
| 28 | The first sign that the jump was not going to plan came when the parachutists seemed to have trouble forming up . |
| 29 | She was not going to back down on this one , you could tell . |
| 30 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |