Example sentences of "he [be] going [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Thomas is a witty writer , and I 'm sure his data-gathering has been impeccable , but somehow I just know the water around him is going to be thick with dorsal fins in February . |
| 2 | But now , the soft clicks coming with typical irregularity , he listened to them painfully and let his mind slide back ten years to what he must remember , to the truth he must recall if he were going to be able to tell lies . |
| 3 | ‘ If he was only 60 per cent today , he is going to be awesome , ’ said proud joint-owner Allen Paulson after the race . |
| 4 | Erm the only way he is going to be able to do that is when his dead . |
| 5 | He thinks he is going to be sick . |
| 6 | If you pay money to an artist how can you tell if he 's going to be famous a couple of years from now ? |
| 7 | I mean it is a possibility , and if he 's going to be awkward perhaps we 'll have to just make sure that we do that , which is presumably fairly easy , if the post goes out from the same office . |
| 8 | If my husband 's going to be in about that time we all have it together , but if he 's going to be late they have theirs first . |
| 9 | ‘ He was late last night for dinner and he 's going to be late again to-night . ’ |
| 10 | Well she says Michael has n't rung so she said I assume that he 's coming cos if he 's going to be late , if he 's anywhere reasonable |
| 11 | If the Chancellor expects the private sector to lead the economy out of recession , then I 'm afraid he 's going to be disappointed . |
| 12 | I 'm sure he 's going to be fine , but I think I 'll have to make it clear that I did actually have a life before he came along , and I do n't particularly want to do everything with him ! |
| 13 | He 's going to be fine now . ’ |
| 14 | He 's going to be alright , do n't worry . ’ |
| 15 | he 's going to be dead . |
| 16 | If he 's going to be miserable I mean it 's only nursery it does n't really matter . |
| 17 | If he 's going to be hungry , maybe I ‘ d better get a meal together . |
| 18 | Paul Ashmead got a pushover try in the second half … but Gloucester were far from happy with things … hooker John Hawker broke a bone in his neck during a scrum … he was rushed to hospital … he 's going to be OK but there 's no more rugby for him this season |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She sounded as if it was something he was going to be pleased about . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was seeking to trade information , and he was going to be disappointed . |
| 23 | If he expected her to fawn the way the Customs officer had done he was going to be disappointed . |
| 24 | He continually told his parents he was going to be famous but , like legions of other parents before them , they treated his claims with contempt . |
| 25 | ‘ Tim always phoned if he was going to be late . |
| 26 | If he was going to be late on parade — 3 p.m. , he 'd promised every pressure would be on the other two group leaders , Sheila Williams and Cedric Downes , to keep the tourists adequately amused by each of them shouldering an extra responsibility . |
| 27 | He was going to be late for his appointment with Crowther and the Monroe girl . |
| 28 | He stared at me for a moment , and I thought he was going to be angry . |
| 29 | He was going to be responsible for something that he did n't know or care the first thing about . |
| 30 | At one point Ms d'Argy Smith feared he was going to be sick over her designer jacket . |