Example sentences of "were not going to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The scene was set for confrontation and as these confrontations continued without an end in sight , it became clear that the usual tactics of the unions were not going to work .
2 The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all .
3 They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them .
4 I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work .
5 He might have bullied her mother into submission , but those tactics were n't going to work on her any more .
6 Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at
7 At 9 p.m. the women sat down in the common room and said they were n't going to bed until the heating was fixed .
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