Example sentences of "was going [to-vb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was going to give her some , gladly . |
| 2 | Even if he still felt the same it was no good if I was going to drive myself mad by becoming obsessive . |
| 3 | Damn and blast the man — he was going to drive her crazy if she was n't careful . |
| 4 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 5 | Theresa was a six-year-old girl who was going to need our scientific skill and our love . |
| 6 | She was going to need it any moment now . |
| 7 | Meaning that , if he had n't managed to earn respect during his lifetime , no amount afterwards was going to do him any good . |
| 8 | She said : ‘ He was convinced I was going to do something terrible to him . |
| 9 | He was playing so well at The Belfry ( Lawrence Batley International ) in his practice rounds , especially , that I should have known he was going to do something special . |
| 10 | That God was going to do something catastrophic , Okay ? |
| 11 | My mother nearly died when she saw the mess but little did she know that I was going to do it all again the next day . |
| 12 | In fact , she was going to do it this morning . |
| 13 | I was going to do it this morning and bring and for the box that they have the old prayer I think going up to Yugoslavia soon |
| 14 | It seemed he was going to ignore her bitter little comment . |
| 15 | Nobody was going to call me young and silly any more . ’ |
| 16 | I was going to call my new film ‘ In Bed With UB40 ’ but Madonna got there first . |
| 17 | She said she was going to miss one that evening because she had an appointment at a Chelsea wine bar . |
| 18 | The Jessamy who knew her own worth ; who knew she was going to lead her own life , instead of always trying to do what others wanted and expected of her . |
| 19 | I knew of that from him before he left , for he was going to spend his last few days before the flight actually on the site , refreshing his memory on certain details . |
| 20 | Carew , sensing the other man 's agitation and fearing he was going to say something rash , gave a warning glance . |
| 21 | ‘ Why ? ’ he said crossly , already knowing she was going to say something stupid . |
| 22 | Merrill thought he was going to say something more , but the train drew into Bruges , and a little while later she closed the door of her hotel room , thankful to be alone . |
| 23 | For a moment he thought that Terry was going to say something important , because his mouth started to form a word , but nothing came out . |
| 24 | She had borrowed a small tape recorder from Jarvis and was going to record her own playing , a critical exercise that she had postponed from day to day . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , ’ said O'Rourke , ‘ he was going to sort it all out properly when he got back to England . |
| 26 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 27 | Billy Sullivan had decided that he was going to own his own gymnasium one day and the idea grew in his mind until it became an obsession . |
| 28 | ‘ We thought she was going to visit her former boyfriend , but obviously she did not . |
| 29 | That I was going to visit you each night ? |
| 30 | Well I was going to ask you that , what you meant by class . |