Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He probably realised we were just going to sea . |
| 2 | I thought they were just going to X-ray me back , but they X-rayed everything . |
| 3 | Lights were already beginning to diamond out of the shadowed pine woods on the lower slopes . |
| 4 | Our spirits were already beginning to flag when I received a letter from Eliot dated 2 June : |
| 5 | Left with no choice but to accept the responsibility or to pursue its own independent inquiries , the airline instructed Windels , Marx , Davies & Ives to prepare its defence and to investigate the suggestions of government complicity that were already coming to light . |
| 6 | Air quality manager Peter Shawcross said the results were currently being examined and evaluated and that interesting facts were already coming to light . |
| 7 | The remainder of these unfortunates were already contributing to family incomes as labourers , shop boys , glovers , house-servants , rag collectors and so on . |
| 8 | Yes I mean th th th th the fact that you 've got a whole range of problems an an and you , you were bound to come up against those problems if you try and define Marxist in a strict sense , and therefore you , you were always seeking to sort of make . |
| 9 | Four secondees were still struggling to settle-in some six months after their appointment , but most secondees adjusted within three months and went on to enjoy the scope to shape their jobs , to use their expertise and to become part of a team . |
| 10 | ‘ Some of them were still standing to attention as they fell . |
| 11 | The record high interest rates were attractive to holders of sterling even though they were also damaging to business . |
| 12 | Upstairs the young postulants were now retiring to bed in the long dormitory . |
| 13 | Meanwhile many intelligent deaf people who might have gone into education , but now finding these opportunities non-existent because of the Education Act of 1893 which had implemented the Royal Commission for the Education of the Blind and the Deaf and Dumb 's recommendations , were now turning to missioner positions in deaf societies and institutes for a living . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy in Cape Town , who was slowly suffocating to death , yesterday became the world 's first child to have an artificial windpipe implanted , during an operation by a British surgeon . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The exchange rate policy was highly damaging to manufacturing . |
| 20 | Well I was only going to sleep Jo , I was n't doing anything , I 'm just tired . |
| 21 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Despite the critics , No Sex , Please was soon playing to capacity audiences , including a coach party from the Battersea pub whose darts team had kept Crawford busy during his period of unemployment . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , in the potion laboratory , Mildred was desperately trying to overbalance the jar by climbing up the side and leaning on it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In English I was I was just listening to music . |
| 27 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 28 | ‘ I was just going to bed when the police came . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I was just going to bed , he said . |