Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that one was intended to go I expect yes that one was intended to go |
| 2 | That was calculated to make me feel really good , was n't it ? |
| 3 | This entire charade was designed to entice me to defect ? ’ |
| 4 | That he was going to let me go , even . |
| 5 | Is that why Peter 's not come today , is it because I was going to say I support a Saturday meeting particular during the budget process , because it 's more easier for me . |
| 6 | I was going to say I represent the tourist ind , industry in Grampian , and I do n't think anybody can deny that our royal are a tremendous draw to tourists , particularly tourists from overseas . |
| 7 | I was going to say I did n't know there was such a place . |
| 8 | Forget it , I said , For a moment I thought he was going to tell me to sling my hook . |
| 9 | I was damned if some nineteen-year-old pipsqueak with zits and a clip-on tie was going to make me feel loathsome . |
| 10 | ‘ I made up my mind that we were going to get married , and nothing was going to make me change my mind . |
| 11 | I closed my eyes tightly because this silly new pain was going to make me cry . |
| 12 | Natasha 's father was there and was siding with my mother , saying how I could n't take Natasha , I was an unfit mother and how he was going to get me done . |
| 13 | If this was how it was going to end I wanted to know . |
| 14 | Thoughts of gangrene and amputations terrified me until , after seventeen miles , I reached camp , where Mick was waiting to make me forget myself . |
| 15 | While the wife was getting dressed I took another cherry from the packet and prepared the thing . |
| 16 | And I was beginning to feel I wanted to strike out on my own . |
| 17 | And then she was gone leaving me shaking with every turbulent feeling you can think of . |
| 18 | The hard-to-handle rumour was spread to stop me working . |
| 19 | ‘ I felt a stab of pain as the needle went into my leg but the fact that it was concealed made me feel less squeamish , ’ she says . |
| 20 | And so he 's the one who started doing this — I do n't know if you remember Rolling Stone during that period he started getting slight , not really new wave , but we used some of the constructivist thing of breaking pages somewhat and pushing things on angles or erm My favourite was his Bob Dylan spread which actually I did , but it was based on what he was trying to get me to do , where everything read left to right and everything was , you know , point sizes lined up and everything was on a column grid , but it was , when you looked at it you had to , you know , like focus on it . |
| 21 | If he did , it was n't surprising he was trying to get me Confirmed in Faith . |
| 22 | He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know . |
| 23 | Then one day a couple of months ago he returned , just as I was leaving assuming I 'd missed him . |
| 24 | In the present set-up I was comforted to know I held good cards . |