Example sentences of "was going [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | She said she was going to shoot the fox that killed them . |
2 | He told me he was going to shoot the whole works , no holds barred . |
3 | I had n't asked him how he thought he was going to get in and for one terrible minute I thought he was going to shoot the lock and kick the door in . |
4 | All that 's happened is I decided I was going to give the Bernini lecture this year . |
5 | They never showed any sign of having doubts that I was going to give the total commitment required to be a full time board member . |
6 | ‘ I was going to give the two of you a few more minutes out there , but if you 've exhausted old times you can come and meet Luke Scott . ’ |
7 | She was quite determined to get Rick there and there was no way she was going to give the ring to me . |
8 | For a moment I thought Clara was going to give the old woman a piece of her mind . |
9 | Otherwise I was going to give the order to evacuate the Right Bank . ’ |
10 | Circumstantial evidence may include that the defendant was the only person with the car keys ; he was seen getting out of the vehicle ; he was seen going towards or getting in the vehicle and/or he said he was going to drive the vehicle . |
11 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |
12 | The sergeant considered Jim Lancaster was going to slam the door and he prepared to thrust his right foot up against the jamb . |
13 | Lisabeth asked and for a moment I thought he was going to slam the door on us . |
14 | For a moment she thought he was going to slam the phone down , then she heard him give a deep sigh . |
15 | For an instant Fox was going to hit the little idiot , but the impulse faded . |
16 | What remained of the morning was to be spent acclimatising himself to the deaf-aid receiver and learning how to pace himself with the A.S.M. who was going to feed the lines . |
17 | If she was going to do the job at all , professional pride demanded she do it properly and , for hair as thick and luxuriant as his , ‘ just chopping a bit off ’ would n't do at all . |
18 | He had looked at one , years ago , but it had taken him three days to read it , carefully , from cover to cover , by which time he realized that , if he was going to do the thing at all conscientiously , he would never be abreast of current developments . |
19 | Now the last thing says labels code four , you 'll remember from the monthly card , I have these eight days where I was going to do the labels . |
20 | I was going to do the tabloiding then they fired Peter Cole . |
21 | As Parliament went into its long summer recess , it was quite clear that Margaret Thatcher was going to reshuffle the Cabinet and the betting was that the shuffle would be a major one . |
22 | ‘ I was going to call the police , but I did n't . ’ |
23 | I shouted that I was going to call the police . ’ |
24 | Nature irresistibly asserts itself , and no amount of talking by ICC match referee Clyde Walcott before the match was going to suppress the volatility of several of the Pakistan cricketers . |
25 | I thought I was going to miss the sunsets , but they 're pretty good along the River Wear too , ’ she says . |
26 | The last day saw me a very sombre person , I was going to miss the island and its attractions . |
27 | He was going to miss the funny little man . |
28 | ‘ I decided it was time to say goodbye , but before I could give notice Sam Hall , the Benskin 's area manager , phoned me to say the company was going to turn the Harrow into a managed house . |
29 | It hurt like hell but he was damned if he was going to let the gunman escape . |
30 | He was going to spend the show hissing and flinging himself across the scaffolding arch which ran up the sides and across the top of the stage , and from which monkeys dangled , taunting Baloo the bear , who could n't climb and groaned a lot . |