Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The exchange rate policy was highly damaging to manufacturing . |
| 4 | Well I was only going to sleep Jo , I was n't doing anything , I 'm just tired . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , in the potion laboratory , Mildred was desperately trying to overbalance the jar by climbing up the side and leaning on it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In English I was I was just listening to music . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I was just going to bed when the police came . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I was just going to bed , he said . |
| 15 | I was just going to bingo . |
| 16 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 17 | Oh is that I was just talking to man . |
| 18 | afford , ca n't afford at the minute , I was just saying to dad Bri 's gon na get us some shopping on his cheque book , I tell you , did I tell you about his embarrassing moment ? |
| 19 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 20 | Catherine Moore , 19 , of Daniels Court , Middlesbrough , was still clinging to life in hospital last night . |
| 21 | To tell a child that he was automatically going to heaven , would not be biblical |
| 22 | Now whether you like it or not , and you 're not in our position , because we er prepared to manage this authority , you would have had that same reduction to find , and I did hear Councillor and he was also referring to capital spend the other day , saying he could have found ten million . |
| 23 | The broad thoroughfare was now corning to life . |
| 24 | An average of 75% of leavers was now proceeding to University . |
| 25 | His war wound which had pained him earlier was now turning to agony . |
| 26 | The wind was now gusting to Force 11 and visibility still poor . |
| 27 | ‘ He was extremely drunk and in a stupor when he attempted the crime — which was never going to work . |
| 28 | ‘ The alternative was putting in a bleep , and that was never going to work . |
| 29 | As a technology expert Vine-Lott takes no pleasure in saying that he warned that Taurus , the paperless sharedealing scheme that had to be abandoned earlier this year at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds was never going to work the way it was being developed . |
| 30 | This was never going to work ! |