Example sentences of "was go [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Toubon has denied the rumour which circulated in Paris after the March General Election that he was going to shut down the trouble-torn Bastille Opera to carry out a complete technical and financial inventory . |
| 2 | My plan for how I was going to live out the rest of my days had just been torn up in front of my face and I needed time to adjust . |
| 3 | Novotna had looked well in control , always seeming to guess correctly whether Seles was going to hit down the line or cross-court . |
| 4 | It looked as if blending inheritance , which at that time was believed in , was going to rule out the possibility that erm that such things er could occur . |
| 5 | For a moment Merrill thought that Luke was going to turn down the idea , but Sam persisted , ‘ After all , there 's no harm in combining business with sightseeing , is there ? ’ |
| 6 | And if I 'd known he was going to turn out a stupid and objectionable youth I 'd never have employed the foolish boy . |
| 7 | Balor was going to let down the drawbridge so that they could ride across it . |
| 8 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 9 | She was going to take back the night . |
| 10 | ‘ And anyway , Marius said this boy was coming over and he was going to draw up a new will , and would we witness it ? … ’ |
| 11 | His family believed he was going to pick up a bankers draft , but he never showed there and he never reported to hospital . |
| 12 | I had no doubts that he was going to pick up the package . |
| 13 | A few more attempts convinced him that nobody was going to put in an appearance . |
| 14 | So Alexander left the surgery determined that he , himself , was going to find out the solution to his curious problem . |
| 15 | I was going to phone up the A T S tyre people just to find out |
| 16 | I told Mum I was going to make up a quarrel with Shirnette . |
| 17 | She was terrified that Brian was going to bring up the word all the baby manuals kept using and which she had come to hate : bonding . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 21 | But , we always thought then that it was going to bring about the end of all these things and result in a future where |
| 22 | He showed us videos of them in action and I was convinced he was going to bring out the old Kirk Douglas film The Vikings to empha-sise the point , ’ said Neal . |
| 23 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 24 | First thing next morning I was going to fire off a letter , I thought , when I heard something . |