Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humans around the room were turning to look in that slow , clumsy way humans had . |
| 2 | Instead of worrying about that , the fashionable thing to worry about was how people were going to adapt to all the leisure which the automated future would provide . |
| 3 | And we described what we were going to do on this walk and where we were going to go and both sort of referred to the same composition and there was a prize for the for the one that was judged the best . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought we were going to talk after this weekend , ’ Vitor demurred , strolling after her into the drawing-room . |
| 5 | It was a special comeback because we did n't really look as though we were going to score for much of the game . |
| 6 | Staying in control had always been Kylie 's top priority , not even the most powerful entertainment men in the world were going to interfere with that . |
| 7 | You were going to think about this one . |
| 8 | Firstly , we , the loss of jobs , er themselves employ a hundred and forty two people , there are a further one hundred and eight people who are employed in er periphery items and other firms on the airfield itself making two hundred and fifty , but this figure has doubled because of the imminent closure in March of Aerodrome and the number of companies who were going to transfer from these , and I hope transfer from these to Hatfield . |
| 9 | Wh what I mean to say is I could n't in advance guess which field it was that you were going to want at any particular moment . |
| 10 | Various papers and magazines were beginning to thrive in this new atmosphere . |
| 11 | Our 1985–6 pilot study suggested that coordinators were having to take on more roles than they could cope with . |
| 12 | Instead , the allow castings were starting to oxidise in some places . |
| 13 | In fact , almost a hundred years ago , Hawaiian music 's infectious melodies were starting to seep into much of the American continent , to be heard by white audiences in the northern states , the blacks in the South and even Latin Americans . |
| 14 | By the 1890s self-conscious research schools were starting to emerge in several areas . |
| 15 | This tendency not to see beyond the individual and his or her legal specialism that has been used before , to the other service available in the firm , is an old-established one — ‘ although , ’ said , ‘ I had hoped we were starting to get past that ’ . |
| 16 | Dicke and Peebles were preparing to look for this radiation when Penzias and Wilson heard about their work and realized that they had already found it . |
| 17 | As they reached the door she glanced down at the small flower bed which gardeners in the congregation were trying to cultivate with more optimism than success in the unrewarding soil at the side of the path . |
| 18 | It was only sold a short while ago , and the family were hoping to move to this house in Eynsham , but the sale fell through . |
| 19 | But after she had finished the first part of her lecture ; after slightly nodding her head to the generous applause ; after the lights had gone up again ; after Ashenden had said ( as every chairman since Creation had said ) how much everyone had enjoyed the talk and how grateful everyone was that not only had the distinguished speaker fascinated each and every one of them but also had agreed to answer any questions which he was absolutely sure everyone in the room was aching to put to such a distinguished expert in the field … it was only then that Dr Moule was able to survey the two intruders . |
| 20 | He had sold Chapeltoun House in Ayrshire , which he had built up over 10 years , and was looking to invest in another business . |
| 21 | When he was looking to expand with another concept , he looked at the labels in his shops for something with a distinctive yet commercial image and decided on this French casualwear label . |
| 22 | It was reassuring to hear of another life that had gone wrong , to be reminded that , however successful a person might seem , things were n't always easy . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's sleeping now , but we thought she was going to die in that last attack . ’ |
| 24 | It seemed as if everyone was going to conform to this funeral except him . |
| 25 | He spent a lot of time swaggering about the place , flexing his muscles and telling everyone what he was going to do with those ‘ foolish little feller-me-lads ’ if they showed up . |
| 26 | And she still had n't solved the problem yet about what she was going to do about that accursed interview which Cara had entrusted her to carry out ! |
| 27 | Luiza , who was always very happy singing Czipra as she spent most of the evening sitting on a gypsy log , had been in superb voice and Therese — Busacher gloated — Therese had made one or two of the more discerning wonder what she was going to do in some of the other productions . |
| 28 | So I was going to rummage through these slides and we do n't have them , erm so I 'll have to , I 'll hand the , the , the book around in just one minute , erm the poems that I 'm going to read to you , very few of them are actually complete , most of them are sketches erm ideas and images of erm , that I 've got , I 've , I 've got them from the paintings . |
| 29 | ‘ We felt that if she was going to turn on those sort of tactics we were not going to be gentlemanly about it , and that she should just get on and do the job . ’ |
| 30 | I think I basically saw it as something that had to be done for the authority and not as something that was going to lead to any change . |