Example sentences of "were [v-ing] do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was frantically doing this and I showed up at rehearsal thinking they were going to do all the songs , but we did n't do anything until two or three days later ! |
| 2 | ‘ We tried to encourage the people to work with each other , and talk to politicians , because they argued a lot about what they were going to do all the time , ’ he said . |
| 3 | and er , I think that er , er I I I 'm quite interested an and really quite amused , if I once gone on proceedings of this council , because every time a a new initiative has been proposed , you have said , oh yes , we were going to do that . |
| 4 | And then , and that , that may solve all sorts of problems for you , if you were going to do that sort of seven days a week , let's say from seven in the morning until , I do n't know , nine at nigh , at night or something . |
| 5 | We were going to do that last week . |
| 6 | David Redden , the senior vice president at Sotheby 's who arranged the loan said that Sotheby 's approached the society with the idea of giving ‘ them the breathing space they so desperately needed while they were trying to determine what they were going to do next for themselves … with the hope that other institutions will join in ’ . |
| 7 | They told him they were going to do this , the papers were signed and he became their son . |
| 8 | I could n't accept it ; my resolve to carry on snapped and I said that if they were going to do this , then 1 , too , would not eat . |
| 9 | They were going to do this to her again … |
| 10 | With the need for speedy disposal of the dead — and that organized by others than the coffin-makers — together with a dwindling supply of wood in the face of more work than they could handle , few involved in the trade were going to do more than fabricate a utilitarian box of standard shape . |
| 11 | Did you , did you try that erm joining the the dots up on a on a graph that you were going to do last time ? |
| 12 | Dodges like this immediately make one suspicious about what they had to hide , and they tended to occur when they were wishing to do some ‘ personal business ’ while on duty , or simply to skive . |
| 13 | It 's the around it would it would pay you so what you were saying do six in the Autumn and six in the Winter and do n't do anything else . |
| 14 | I was one of the lucky ones because they were having done that the others in fact left it until later and in fact they took , they , they called up for time . |
| 15 | Oh you said you were , you were threatening to do that were n't you ? |