Example sentences of "[verb] he [be] [v-ing] to be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Did you know he was going to be here ? ’
2 So maybe he did n't know he was going to be photographed .
3 How was I to know he was going to be murdered ? ’
4 They say he 's going to be the next Director . ’
5 Susan Coltman , a long-standing friend of Paula , giving evidence on the third day of the trial , said Gilfoyle added he was training to be part of a specialist emergency team dealing specifically with suicides .
6 Ernest says he 's going to be a leader of men ! ’
7 If he expected her to fawn the way the Customs officer had done he was going to be disappointed .
8 I noticed on your card she called him Daniel David and then behold he 's going to be just Daniel .
9 So when he was told he was going to be transferred to the Sheriff 's Wayside Honor Farm at Castaic , he told reporters , ‘ I 've been pretty happy in the tank here .
10 That Kevin is certainly growing into a fine young man , he has been working with his shirt off in this weather and you can see he is going to be just as much an athlete as his father was .
11 I could see he was going to be humble and it depressed me .
12 I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it .
13 I mean I know he 's going to be out sometime this afternoon , so I think any time after about six o'clock
14 She sensed he was pretending to be asleep when she got in to bed .
15 And when I discovered he was going to be a priest .
16 Erm , because I was going out for half past two and er , she rang , she says he has n't rung yet so I assume he 's going to be home .
17 He 'd known he was going to be tested , and he 'd prepared himself .
18 The fact that Chant , knowing he was going to be murdered ( that much was cogent ) , should have chosen to set these nonsenses down as vital information was proof of significant derangement .
19 He imagines he is going to be arrested and whisked off to Siberia .
20 As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married .
21 Farrell knew he was going to be sick .
22 At one point Ms d'Argy Smith feared he was going to be sick over her designer jacket .
23 For one terrible moment he thought he was going to be dismissed .
24 She 'd cried because she thought he was going to be hit .
25 Twice they had to stop because Richard thought he was going to be sick .
26 Gays thought he was going to be their president ; but so did blue-collar Catholic heterosexuals .
27 Bosnian Muslims thought he was going to be their president ; but so did those who want America to disavow meddling overseas .
28 Trade unions thought he was going to be their president ; but so did those businessmen who want a free-trade agreement with Mexico .
29 Jasper laughed until he thought he was going to be sick .
30 He stared at me for a moment , and I thought he was going to be angry .
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