Example sentences of "was going [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They said he was going to die of exposure , at his age , ’ said Maximilian . |
| 2 | She came with him to Joe 's birthday party and danced mainly with Peter , though in the slow numbers she gave him no encouragement to smooch with her ; and when she danced with other people he thought that , quite literally , he was going to die of pain . |
| 3 | My thoughts suddenly became alert : he was going to die of AIDS . |
| 4 | She had thought that she was going to die of shame . |
| 5 | And yet , why had his manner changed so abruptly when he learned that the girl whose hat he had rescued was going to live at Sunset Cottage ? |
| 6 | He was going to feed on honey dew and drink the milk of Paradise . |
| 7 | I ran all the way home from school thinking I was going to bleed to death . |
| 8 | Mr Wolski knew what he was going to do at lunchtime that fine spring day . |
| 9 | It was a pretty good feeling , even not knowing what I was going to do in life now . |
| 10 | David Blunkett , shadow health secretary , said that he made a speech three weeks ago with very good evidence behind him that the Government was going to engage in redefinition of ‘ nursing care ’ once a patient 's surgery had been completed . |
| 11 | She did not have any idea , she realised abruptly , of what she was going to say to fitzAlan . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Denton and Reddish ( Mr. Bennett ) made several interventions — I was going to say on behalf of , but that sounds rude ; in which he put the view of — the Ramblers Association . |
| 13 | I think that Gary rang him up and said he was going to back to work , there 's only people starting work he 's giving some people some work . |
| 14 | Probably he was going to ask for help in obtaining a pardon for Sidacai , and Alexei thought about telling him that it was Burun 's intent that he should be freed . |
| 15 | In other words , if I was going to go on location and disappear from home for six months at a time , forget it . |
| 16 | Anyway , she was very tired and said that if I did n't tell her she was going to go to sleep . |
| 17 | He was going to talk to Daddy — about us . ’ |
| 18 | The money I was going to save on rent over the next month could be put towards a deposit on something — always assuming the Department of Employment did eventually pay me my due — and then I would be able to start again . |
| 19 | Thus individuals might retire and rise progressively later each day until they would miss a whole sleep because it was going to clash with daytime commitments . |
| 20 | Maura thought she was going to faint with fright . |
| 21 | From things he said in his sleep , I know he thought I was going to fall in love with somebody else . |
| 22 | And she was determined that I was going to fall in love with the girl . |
| 23 | And he was going to stink of smoke . |
| 24 | Surely it was too predictable that Daisy was going to want to elbow him out ; the feelings that existed between the three of them were substantial enough to forbid anything so trite . |
| 25 | She guarded her secret carefully , terrified she was going to suffer from morning sickness , which might give the game away to her mother , but she 'd been lucky . |
| 26 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 27 | You anticipated a point I was going to make in fact . |
| 28 | He did not dwell on the hyena spotted in blood that Abraham was going to throw into hell on the Day of Resurrection , or on the necessity of chopping male infidels into small pieces . |
| 29 | One evening when they were coming back from the hunt , he pretended to be someone else and , all alone , jumped on Albuin pretending that he was going to steal by violence the horse Albuin was mounted on . |
| 30 | If they thought he was going to stand in front of them like a naughty schoolboy , they were mistaken . |