Example sentences of "[was/were] go [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were goin' to make a tart , were n't you ? |
| 2 | She thought of the long , black car gliding up to the great white building where they were going to hold the conference that would put an end to war for ever . |
| 3 | So I told them that we were going to leave the park , and go and get a nice cold ice-cream . |
| 4 | Dandelion told me you were going to leave the warren tonight . |
| 5 | The pilot , frantically trying to avoid disaster , felt his craft tilt and knew the big rotors were going to hit the gatehouse before they actually did . |
| 6 | I was more interested in how we were going to reach the sea , and in how we were going to cross it . |
| 7 | Nearly half of 16-24-year-old smokers questioned in a survey said they were going to quit the habit in the New Year . |
| 8 | I thought the trustees were going to manage the business . |
| 9 | So there was way they were going to let the standard bearer go on his own and face all these fierce fighters . |
| 10 | Now she knew beyond any doubt that they were going to spend the rest of the evening together . |
| 11 | They were going to spend the day in the forest , gathering mushrooms and wild strawberries . |
| 12 | when we send it back in a few days fitting , this job I says we 'll want it early in the morning and you can have it in the afternoon , but we were going to spend the day in Liverpool , but you 're dad said , I 'm not being round all those shops all day , so I said ooh no ! |
| 13 | If I were going to spend the time and effort to write a book , I wanted it to get to as many people as possible . |
| 14 | As the unashamedly extravagant Continental R in the most outrageous shade of red majestically revolved on the stand to an upbeat and immensely loud recording of ‘ Land Of Hope And Glory ’ the last thing on anyone 's mind was how the CFCs in the air conditioning were going to rip the ozone to pieces . |
| 15 | See what see what you can do and perhaps er Jane you could just look into the possibility of erm because if I mean if we were going to do a run of pens we would n't just have a thousand would we ? |
| 16 | In hospital they told me they were going to do a routine examination and that it was going to be a twist in the scrotum or it was going to be a tumour ; and it might be benign or it might be malignant . |
| 17 | We were going to do a lot more work |
| 18 | Incidentally a trap here is to feel guilty when you find that you have given up doing the exercises that you so fervently swore you were going to do every day . |
| 19 | ‘ Some friends who were with me on holiday in Romania talked about the idea and when they contacted me this year saying they were going to do the ride I told them I was more than willing to join them , ’ said Karen , who teaches at Applegarth Primary School , Northallerton . |
| 20 | Now we were going to do The Holly and The Ivy , but that 's why the carol crept in . |
| 21 | They were going to do the freight costs , to get any idea out of freight . |
| 22 | If you were going to invent a brand new religion you would not start with a cross . |
| 23 | And then we used to play games with him and we were going to invent a game that did n't exist because whatever you said , Mr Brynner always said , ‘ Well , as a matter of fact I was world champion pistol shot , ’ or ‘ I 'm the world champion ’ of whatever it was you mentioned . |
| 24 | A sudden upsurge to 3,500 on Dec. 31-Jan. 1 was reportedly prompted by a rumour that the Greek authorities were going to seal the border , and on Jan. 2 a Greek government spokesman alleged that the rumour had been deliberately put about by the Albanian authorities in an attempt to rid the country of the Greek minority , which numbered nearly 59,000 according to the 1989 census . |
| 25 | If the Tory Anglicans were going to lose the argument about the transfer of the Crown , they were determined to ensure that the Church would be safe under a Calvinist successor . |
| 26 | If you were going to say a travel industry case study and insurance industry prefer it to be quite practical . |
| 27 | Well you were going to take a satsuma and some Quavers were n't you ? |
| 28 | car conked out so Vicki stayed with the car and her who we were going to take a walk in Ruddington , and I walked home with her to get Malcolm to go over with the other car . |
| 29 | ‘ You were going to lay the table . ’ |
| 30 | This way they were going to generate a lot of heat but not much reason . |