Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] to come [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Miss Honey , she felt sure both ears were going to come off at any moment with all the weight that was on them . |
| 2 | Street lights were starting to come on in the distance , crimson slivers slowly brightening to orange . |
| 3 | Well I even say the originally , he was going to come over with Robert stuff |
| 4 | Well , George was going to come up with a translation . |
| 5 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 6 | She was forced to crouch in the bowels of the machine with her knees up around her ears , her elbows jammed against the interior dispensing machinery and her back wedged so tightly against the shelf supports that she was going to come out with her spine looking like a piece of corrugated duralinium . |
| 7 | Jason Prior was going to come out of this shining like a knight in armour while she would be condemned to eternal darkness , everyone believing it was her fault . |
| 8 | AT1 : ‘ I did wonder what was going to come out of this review . ’ |
| 9 | Chairman I , I , I am and some of my colleagues a little confused on this paper , erm and I really ask that I , I understood that when we discussed this last , erm that the , the minor work which was one , one debated , erm was going to be increased to two million and that two million er , two million spend was going to come out of the existing budget , I 'm not quite sure from this whether it is or it is n't , could you explain ? |
| 10 | Next , her long red hair was pulled so hard she felt as if it was going to come out by the roots . |
| 11 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 12 | She assumed that , having had time to think things over , he was going to come back with the decision to tell Marc everything that had led up to this crazy engagement of theirs . |
| 13 | Does he not also accept that much of his programme was going to come about in any event , that he has deliberately delayed the urban programme announcement , that six of our valleys are still not designated areas under the Act and that a proper revitalisation of the valleys would require massive and genuinely new investment spread over at least eight years , not advertising hype spread over three ? |
| 14 | I mean the erm , the effects of the recession in North America , the great fear of lay offs amongst white collar workers in North America erm began to show itself towards the end of last year , and indeed major corporations were reducing their business travel by cutting back on their travel budgets erm and that was beginning to come through by October/November last year in erm reduced long haul travel . |
| 15 | Alright , I mean , we were just sort of thinking well sort of four o'clock was n't she , she was starting to come out to Che she came out with Cheeky with us last night , but of course , that 's all gon na go again in n it , if it 's gon na be five o'clock ? |
| 16 | She smelt ; the contents of the carts smelt ; the cart itself was impregnated with stench ; and here was this gleaming child , yes , aye , that was a word to describe her , she gleamed , and she was asking to come along with her . |