Example sentences of "were [v-ing] have a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was .
2 So we were going to have a sketch .
3 If we said , like , if we , every second month say or every third month , then we , we knew we were going to have a speaker , we could the time before we could then do the business more thoroughly and carefully so that the month of the speaker we could just go through it very quickly .
4 And then we were going to have a day shopping in Ken .
5 But then , he could have had no idea that we were going to have a look at the Delos .
6 That 's cos you were going to have a look
7 None of us really knew what we were going to see , and in the early days the tapes were rather artificial because the lessons were all so well prepared , the kids knew they were going to have a video in the classes , it did n't mean that they were always well behaved !
8 Carrie thought it was partly because they were going to have a farewell tea at Druid 's Bottom .
9 All Saints , they were going to have a concert were n't they .
10 Erm , you will remember that after the last meeting we were going to have a meeting with Mr which we , which we subsequently did have and we put forward several erm possible uses for the old hospital , including re-siting of the library , relocation of the council offices , police station , day centre for the elderly , day services for the physically disabled , for young mothers and children centre and for a mental health services centre and he was delighted that we had the meeting because he has to meet with his superiors late in December , early January , when he has been asked to put forward ideas .
11 You know they were going to have a meal out and
12 I remember once we were going to have a lot more crocuses on the way up the drive , and he said , ‘ Look , you decide what you want and I 'll order them , ’ so I decided what I thought would be good , because I knew I had to put them in .
13 I thought we were going to have a visitor in the boot .
14 I thought we were going to have a visitor coming in through the back door .
15 And yo when I look back an and er and think of even when I first started nursing a lot of the girls we used to get in , they thought if they kissed a man they were going to have a baby .
16 But erm , funnily enough I I I was out erm , on Saturday evening , and by a strange coincidence , er , where we were sitting having a meal , erm , in the restaurant , erm , someone came in and joined us , we saw , some friends of ours , and he is a sociologist from the University .
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