Example sentences of "[pron] were [v-ing] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Gray sounded as though she were trying to be fair . |
| 2 | I mean the if she were going to be next week or something , she 'll maybe want to organize most of it herself . |
| 3 | There was a report in the paper about the coronation and the unveiling of the memorial to Queen Victoria two days before the coronation , and about the many crowned heads of Europe who were going to be present , including the German Emperor , the late Queen 's grandson . |
| 4 | ‘ You said you were going to be discreet ! ’ |
| 5 | It did n't bother me , I knew I was engaged to be married , and in those days as soon as you were going to be married you left your job … that is the only thing we girls had to look forward to , getting married and going on our own , getting our bottom drawer together and things like that … |
| 6 | You did say er , Bishop that you were going to be frank and you certainly turned a few corners there for us to think about . |
| 7 | We we did n't actually get through all the arrangements question , erm , J John a are you w there was some ce uncertainty as to whether or not you were going to be able to bring your adaptable piano ? |
| 8 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 9 | ‘ You look as though you were going to be sick , ’ she said . |
| 10 | We were hoping to be able to work with the , that . |
| 11 | We were clear , and we were going to be rich . |
| 12 | In the mid eighties we decided that if we were going to be one of the super unions , we had to be amalgamation-friendly . |
| 13 | I think as much as anything he was testing our mood on whether or not , whether we were going to be helpful or . |
| 14 | For God 's sake , Vi , we were going to be married . |
| 15 | We were going to be married — Svend and me — at least I thought we were . |
| 16 | And if we were going to be bored , and we were usually bored , rarely being self-motivated , we could at least be bored on our own terms , lying smashed on mattresses in ruined houses rather than working in the machine . |
| 17 | We put enough rehearsal in to know we were going to be okay ; it was n't people just going up there and jamming . ’ |
| 18 | I thought that we were going to be able to love without fear . |
| 19 | I do n't know what he thought about , but what I thought about was how in God 's name we were going to be able to face each other in the morning . |
| 20 | So there were going to be four months of hard training and probably a lot of violence . |
| 21 | And T X R X , B B C Radio Nottingham , to the effect that there were going to be these regular advice sessions at , which is the ac the tenants ' action group office . |
| 22 | Three right so perhaps someone had divided this pizza up and all the extra people kept coming in and your mum was saying , Oh no I thought there were going to be three and now there 's six of us . |
| 23 | We did n't know whether there were going to be any children . |
| 24 | Though his critics maintain they were trying to be constructive and wanted him to stay , Sutton was convinced that the criticism had been organized in advance as a warning that if he did not go , as Pilger was demanding , they would make life hell for him . |
| 25 | The party 's spin-doctors had remained sceptical about the polls , but they were expecting to be able to argue that the Conservatives had lost their mandate , even if they were clinging to power in a hung parliament . |
| 26 | Every now and again people would step neatly aside while the person they were talking to was sick on the floor . |
| 27 | Apparently Swedish cows , secure in the knowledge that they were going to be stunned by true Aryans before they were slaughtered , were happy and friendly towards man ; British cows , who might be bled to death for kosher meat , had no such guarantee and were morose and sullen as a result . |
| 28 | They were going to be late , unless he put that thought aside and got ready . |
| 29 | She was worried because she did not know if the rules of the house permitted her to go out walking with Finn and , besides , they were going to be late for dinner . |
| 30 | But such was the resistance from management , it was feared that it would become impossible to recruit top-quality personnel from the private sector if they were going to be subject to oversight from the Comptroller . |