Example sentences of "going [verb] [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also Alec , a prison officer from Wormwood Scrubs ( when he 'd given his address and next of kin on a previous camp everyone had thought he was kidding ) ; Ken , who to everyone 's delight turned up with a guitar ( were we really going to sit round a campfire singing ? ) ; and David , an aircraft engineer who after fifteen years in the Scouts could ‘ do wonderful things with ropes ’ . |
| 2 | I 'm going to spell out a warning to the aeroplane pilot by making you all into letters . |
| 3 | Benny was n't going to pass up an opportunity like this . |
| 4 | ‘ George they are n't going to find out a thing if we do n't tip them off . |
| 5 | And if there 's no money in it for me I 'm not gon na give priority to going picking up a piece of wood for a customer . |
| 6 | His family believed he was going to pick up a bankers draft , but he never showed there and he never reported to hospital . |
| 7 | We 're going to set up a safari park in the back garden and cream teans on the lawn |
| 8 | Barnes has fired up a powerful B side and told them : ‘ We are going to set down a performance that will make the selectors take notice . |
| 9 | I 'm going to set off a flare . ’ |
| 10 | Yes , we 're going to open up a resort on Mars . |
| 11 | First thing next morning I was going to fire off a letter , I thought , when I heard something . |
| 12 | I suspect that some of the drug barons who shell out money in support of what must be a pretty costly operation regard the academically-minded staff of the OHE as a bunch of eggheads , not to say ‘ wets ’ , who ought to be earning their keep by polishing up the industry 's somewhat tarnished image , and by encouraging sales , instead of spending their time and the companies ' profits on airy-fairy projects which are n't going to rustle up a pennyworth of business . |
| 13 | Erm , if you erm , maybe erase part of entries of the spreadsheet , you think , oh that 's going to free up a lot of memory , er , probably it wo n't . |
| 14 | Here , I can only think that he was saying , ‘ well , we do n't know that there 's the full authority of the city council in this view ’ , but erm I 'm not going to put up a defence , I just think that what we do is basically stress from yourself and from the chief officer that we do want this file known . |
| 15 | A few more attempts convinced him that nobody was going to put in an appearance . |
| 16 | I 'm going to send round a nurse who 'll massage the affected muscles and help her with exercises . |
| 17 | One member of the pair was told by his/her partner ‘ I am going to read out a list of words to you . |
| 18 | I 'm now going to read out a number of interests . |
| 19 | Next month I 'm going to tab out a request from Mr Bob McGhee , of Basingstoke , who has asked for Don Rich 's solo from Buck Owens ' Love 's Gon na Live Here . |
| 20 | If you are going to pay off a debt through a prepayment meter , you should get advice from a Citizen 's Advice Bureau who will be able to negotiate with the supplier to ‘ calibrate ’ the meter to pay of any debt at a rate you can afford . |
| 21 | ‘ My face looks as if it 's going to drop off a fruit tree , ’ he said at himself . |
| 22 | So we were going to make up a sport to see what he said , and in Spain they play a game called callots . |
| 23 | When I use a well-known television series as a starting point I start by talking to the children about what we 're going to do and the way we 're going to work : " We 're going to make up a play together . |
| 24 | I told Mum I was going to make up a quarrel with Shirnette . |
| 25 | In each tribe , as we have seen , there were a number of coastal , a number of inland and a number of city demes , about sixteen councillors from each type going to make up a trittys ( only in the tribe to which Acharnai belonged was this system modified , because twenty-two out of fifty councillors is already well over a third ) . |
| 26 | I still kept the idea of being a lawyer through studying at night school , but , after a short while I decided I was really going to follow up a boxing career . |
| 27 | Now I am going to throw out a challenge . |
| 28 | Christmas fillers you see , so I , she , cos I 've , I 'm going to make a couple of fruit cakes , I said well I was going to bring in a couple of fruit cakes and said if you need them not , if not I said I 'll take them back I thought no way is Sue gon na eat them , eat cakes like she did last year , or year before |
| 29 | Blanche caught his look and explained smoothly to the inspector that since Eddy said he was going to bring along a guest so would she . |
| 30 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |