Example sentences of "was going [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It all fell apart when UKIAS , the agency that was going to represent refugees instead of lawyers , disintegrated in front of Baker 's eyes . |
| 2 | He did n't care about Caspar , not if he was going to kill lambs , and he did n't care about Lee . |
| 3 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought it was nice , the way she missed out this syllable in the middle , and that as an English student I was going to notice things like this . ’ |
| 5 | The marchioness had set out early , announcing she was going to visit friends near Yellowmead Down . |
| 6 | Because it was a communist led country , erm , but I had , I was going to visit friends , er , and it it was , possible for us to get in . |
| 7 | It was going to take days to get everything sorted out , and she suddenly felt quite unable to cope with it all . |
| 8 | In some cases it was going to take years . |
| 9 | Given that the sanctity of the Irish family is rigidly built into the Irish constitution , it was going to take years to break down and change the incredible legislative and political barriers . |
| 10 | He had n't got a big selection but I went down er I was going to use stocks . |
| 11 | was going to use stocks and er oh gladioli that was it . |
| 12 | She was going to exchange knitting-patterns with the Visitors , and ask them if they would like a hot drink after their 17 million light-year journey to Wimbledon . |
| 13 | I knew he , I did n't know him , I did n't know him , but I do go and see him when I saw this case was covered up , and it seems to be utterly unreasonable that this poor old chap was going to have doors slamming and banging , and then people coming out the Dance about midnight , and his whole life being disrupted , so I I turned on there , unknown to my own Council , oh , they were cross with me . |
| 14 | Christina felt like telling her she would look beautiful in a torn sack , but decided she was going to hear comments like that all her life . |
| 15 | They were , which was , well it was quite useful really because er you , you know you had to be , you were called out to a case suddenly er there was always somebody just to make sure you had n't left any food you know in the kitchen that was going to grow whiskers until you got back . |
| 16 | THE PROBLEM WAS TRICKY : AT BEST IT was going to concentrate minds for a very long time indeed . |
| 17 | ‘ We knew the administration was going to review things , but they should not have started with Adam and Eve , ’ Mr Bangemann said . |
| 18 | Her parents , William and Nellie Tanner , had been forced out of the terraced house in Page Street , the home they had brought the family up in , when her father 's employer George Galloway , who owned the house , decided he was going to make changes . |
| 19 | ‘ Originally I was going to race bikes , ’ confides Blues . |
| 20 | ‘ He was going to introduce changes to the club which would have made your lives much less comfortable . ’ |
| 21 | In practice , however , the BBC knew that as its audience share fell , the case for a compulsory fee would become weaker and that getting the fee raised at the regular three-yearly review would be trickier ( no government was going to win votes by raising the licence fee , even during the years of monopoly ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I realised that if I was going to switch guitars , I wanted something that had some kind of improvement , rather than just being more or less the same . |
| 23 | He was going to play tricks and take risks with his life and personality and do so in an increasingly wilful and dangerous way . |
| 24 | Prof Turner said it was an issue which had to be faced if the system was going to protect children . |