Example sentences of "[vb past] he [be] [v-ing] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She sensed he was pretending to be asleep when she got in to bed . |
| 3 | And when I discovered he was going to be a priest . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Farrell knew he was going to be sick . |
| 6 | At one point Ms d'Argy Smith feared he was going to be sick over her designer jacket . |
| 7 | For one terrible moment he thought he was going to be dismissed . |
| 8 | She 'd cried because she thought he was going to be hit . |
| 9 | Twice they had to stop because Richard thought he was going to be sick . |
| 10 | Gays thought he was going to be their president ; but so did blue-collar Catholic heterosexuals . |
| 11 | Bosnian Muslims thought he was going to be their president ; but so did those who want America to disavow meddling overseas . |
| 12 | Trade unions thought he was going to be their president ; but so did those businessmen who want a free-trade agreement with Mexico . |
| 13 | Jasper laughed until he thought he was going to be sick . |
| 14 | He stared at me for a moment , and I thought he was going to be angry . |
| 15 | ‘ I told her to go into the other room- and say she thought he was going to be in there . |
| 16 | It rang for a long time , and he thought he was going to be out of luck , but eventually the receiver was picked up the other end . |
| 17 | He said if I thought he was going to be the Hindu Salman Rushdie , I was mistaken : he saw himself more as a Hindu P. G. Wodehouse . |
| 18 | Zen thought he was going to be shown some decisive new piece of evidence , but Bartocci simply reached through the space left vacant on the shelf and with a grunt of effort manipulated a lever . |
| 19 | I thought it was just something people said , but he actually went green and I thought he was going to be sick . |
| 20 | ‘ The policeman saw the car coming straight towards him , and thought he was going to be hit , and had to pull in to the side of the road . |
| 21 | She realized he was expecting to be dodging gunfire . |
| 22 | Was going to tell her this morning , but when I came downstairs and saw her packing up that cake — when I remembered he was going to be there , that I 'd have to see his smug damned face , hear that ghastly loud laugh of his … |
| 23 | Someone said he was going to be doing engineering . |