Example sentences of "were going [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See what see what you can do and perhaps er Jane you could just look into the possibility of erm because if I mean if we were going to do a run of pens we would n't just have a thousand would we ? |
| 2 | In hospital they told me they were going to do a routine examination and that it was going to be a twist in the scrotum or it was going to be a tumour ; and it might be benign or it might be malignant . |
| 3 | We were going to do a lot more work |
| 4 | If you were going to invent a brand new religion you would not start with a cross . |
| 5 | And then we used to play games with him and we were going to invent a game that did n't exist because whatever you said , Mr Brynner always said , ‘ Well , as a matter of fact I was world champion pistol shot , ’ or ‘ I 'm the world champion ’ of whatever it was you mentioned . |
| 6 | During the interview , MacKie was asked to explain why nearly two million Shanks & McEwan shares had been sold with ‘ indecent haste ’ , after a meeting with the company 's chairman and if he had been told that Shanks & McEwan were going to issue a profits warning to the stock market . |
| 7 | Earlier Colin Telfer , 46 , a Bell Lawrie salesman , said he had talked to Mackie but denied that Mackie told him Shanks & McEwan were going to issue a profits warning . |
| 8 | If you were going to say a travel industry case study and insurance industry prefer it to be quite practical . |
| 9 | Well you were going to take a satsuma and some Quavers were n't you ? |
| 10 | car conked out so Vicki stayed with the car and her who we were going to take a walk in Ruddington , and I walked home with her to get Malcolm to go over with the other car . |
| 11 | This way they were going to generate a lot of heat but not much reason . |
| 12 | We were going to see a film and I had n't seen a film before . |
| 13 | You were going to put a pound coin in ? |
| 14 | ‘ Labour thought they were going to win a point today — they were rather disappointed when they found they had got it completely wrong . ’ |
| 15 | if we were going to buy a goalie ( well fantasize about it anyway ) then Flowers would be the best bet followed by Coton , Southall is too old and rapidly becomming crap . |
| 16 | Constables Tim Hurley and Tracy Beeching were going to investigate a joyriding display in Blackbird Leys when they ran into an ambush . |
| 17 | Then you had got to have good grounds to believe that they were going to commit a felony . |
| 18 | To prove that you suspected that they were going to commit a crime is n't so easy . |
| 19 | But , if the Americans were going to make a mess of it , let it be their mess , not his . |
| 20 | Shivering at the landing extension , I heard his brisk boisterous voice rattling on about the ! ! ! historic meeting of a famous comic and a famous bust who were going to make a film together . |
| 21 | Moreover , having read between the lines of Wendell Harvey 's letters to her husband , she was certain that Harry and the Harvey girl were going to make a match of it . |
| 22 | Many of her friends were in politics or belonged to political families , it was the era of the Liberal reforms and that was what fired her most : she went to dinner-parties where she sat next to men who were going to make a speech that night and there were weeks when she went to the House every day , it was what she had always wanted , it was history , it was important , immensely important and she was seeing it , seeing it happen and that was important to her . |
| 23 | The two got together and announced at the 1989 Seybold conference that they were going to develop a clone of PostScript based on Bauer 's which would use Apple 's new fonts on both the Macintosh and under OS/2 . |
| 24 | " Go to the police and tell them you were going to throw a stone through our window ? " |
| 25 | Well now how long have they known you were going to rent a caravan ? |
| 26 | They were going to rent a house and she was going to live with him . |
| 27 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 28 | " Oh , I understood you to say that you were going to find a place on shore . " |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So we were going to have a sketch . |