Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was hoping to be able to use my office , ’ Miles said slowly . |
| 2 | ‘ I was trying to be polite . |
| 3 | I put it on the arm on the chair , I was trying to be clever and I sat down and it had like material there and I caught the material and I just sort , all fell down here , it 's a lovely smell . |
| 4 | I was trying to be cool , but the statues were not funny to me . |
| 5 | ‘ You are not of that opinion ? ’ enquired Lili , her head tilted in a way that I was beginning to be familiar with . |
| 6 | I was beginning to be afraid … ’ |
| 7 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted . |
| 8 | I had erm I was going to be representative of this committee at a erm safety seminar for three days at the beginning of this week that I was n't able to go to , and Councillor Kurtz has very kindly gone in my place , which is why she is not able to come to this meeting . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's just that Uncle was a cautious old devil and — ’ he looked away ‘ — he got the impression I was a bit of a spendthrift because — well , because I used to get through my allowance pretty rapidly when I was away at school , and … oh , hell , he wanted to make sure I was going to be dull and sensible about all that money when he finally kicked the bucket . |
| 10 | ‘ I had planned where I was going to live and what projects I was going to be involved in . ’ |
| 11 | I was going to be late for Jack Mason and made for the door . |
| 12 | I was going to be seductive , with satin pyjamas and satin-smooth hair — and a discretely protected reproductive system . |
| 13 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 14 | If I had thought I was going to be Prime Minister , I would have taken more trouble to understand the various theories ’ . |
| 15 | She adds : ‘ I lay awake at nights wondering whether I was going to be honest . |
| 16 | This meant that there was now effectively a time limit on how long I was going to be able to stay in my broom cupboard . |
| 17 | That summer I thought I was going to be able to work in the shop full-time up until I started at St. Martin 's School of Art in the autumn . |
| 18 | So there was no way I was going to be able to step out as well . |
| 19 | However , if I was going to be able to maintain anything like good water quality , an essential requirement in any marine aquarium , my basic marine tank had to be a minimum size of 900 × 380 × 300mm ( 36″ × 15″ × 12″ ) with a capacity of 104 litres ( 23 gallons ) . |
| 20 | You you and I discussed whether I I was going to be able to do it . |
| 21 | ‘ Especially when I was shutting myself away until two or three in the morning , so that I was absolutely certain that I was going to be able to go into the studio a few hours later and deliver something that was believable and complete . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I was going to be happy today , really happy . |
| 23 | I did as I was told and flopped down on a chair , but it gradually got worse and worse , and I felt as if I was going to be sick . |
| 24 | I was going to be sick . |
| 25 | At the top of the stairs I thought I was going to be sick and returned stiffly to the bathroom . |
| 26 | I was very worried I was going to be sick . |
| 27 | as if I was going to be sick . |
| 28 | At one point in the turbulence I felt certain I was going to be air-sick and the very thought was unsettling , because I knew we would have to write and file our first flight story from Calgary within an hour or two , and that story had to be sent , come what may , including sickness . |
| 29 | ‘ I was going to be free from his constant nagging . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew I was going to be tough to beat this week . |