Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was conspicuously trying to be brave , but it was quite clear he had been devastated by the experience . |
| 2 | He came home from school some days later and said he had been ‘ thinking very seriously about our situation ’ — he was already beginning to be pompous — and that it was quite obvious that some women were unsuited to a life which held nothing but home and children . |
| 3 | Although Gaumont-British also declared a loss in 1937 , of £98,000 , Balcon 's departure from the company was precipitated by the prospect of Maxwell , a man whose production philosophy he abhorred , taking a stake in the company , and a general sense that he was n't going to be able to continue the same broad-based production policy as before . |
| 4 | ‘ I realised he was n't going to be able to stop and all I could do was watch him come closer and closer to me . |
| 5 | No chances with the bus , and besides , he was n't going to be paying any more bills . |
| 6 | He was n't going to be as heavily built as his father , but was lithe and agile , and she loved to watch him going after gulls ' eggs out by Blackbottle Rocks , his long legs braced against the cliff face and the muscles in his neck and back standing out like cords as he heaved himself up over a ledge . |
| 7 | He did it because he wanted to , because he was n't going to be her victim , and because he cared very much for Arthur . |
| 8 | He was n't going to be left behind , nursing Morgan . |
| 9 | The tough slaughterman viewing the small , unimpressive figure and deciding that he was n't going to be put out of his routine by some ragged farm man . |
| 10 | He was n't going to be fobbed off by the issue of her drink either , she found . |
| 11 | So he tried to placate this man and he was n't going to be placated . |
| 12 | Normally when he and I were with girls he would be all competitive , even if he was n't meaning to be . |
| 13 | He knew that he was not going to be happy if he were deprived of the chance to study . |
| 14 | If so , it would only have increased his feeling of vulnerability and awkwardness for , until he had come to recognize that he was not going to be the greatest poet of the age after Yeats , Lewis was always hostile to poets . |
| 15 | The idea had taken firm root in his brain and Carew knew that he was not going to be easily discouraged . |
| 16 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 17 | It was early in the season yet , and he probably had long periods of inactivity to fill up between visitors ; but he was not going to be left at leisure for long this time , for in the gravelled car park outside the enclosure a large bus was just disgorging a load of loud and active schoolboys , shepherded by a frantic youth hardly older than the eldest of his charges . |
| 18 | The knowledge that he was not going to be charged with Angy 's murder had aroused profound relief but not elation ; his invitation for this evening had brought pleasure but no excitement . |
| 19 | She strove to keep her amazement and joy out of her voice , to be as laconic as he was also struggling to be . |
| 20 | Edward took her on a tour of Bath — perhaps he was also hoping to be seen by someone who knew him ! — and then headed out into the country . |
| 21 | He wondered if Alexei was angry because he had been beaten again , or if maybe he was beginning to realise that there was no way , short of an accident , that he was ever going to be allowed to win . |
| 22 | It was not that he was obviously going to be a good priest . |
| 23 | He was obviously going to be a Sheik in his own right , and it would seem that he knew it . |
| 24 | ‘ He was told in writing that he was only going to be narrating for five minutes of the video , which is not what happened . |
| 25 | ‘ He said he was only going to be a few minutes . |
| 26 | He was never going to be Pavarotti , but there was something about him that made him great . ’ |
| 27 | He knew he was never going to be good enough for Formula One but his father would n't listen . |
| 28 | He thought he was never going to be able to get it out of his mind . |
| 29 | He answered a letter from America saying Toad was n't really altered as he was in my story , he was never going to be good . |
| 30 | He has enjoyed every minute of it in the certain knowledge that he was never going to be held to account by being elected . |