Example sentences of "was go [prep] [be] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He did n't explain why it was going to be helpful and the pilot told him the car he 'd specified was waiting for them . |
| 3 | And I was determined that everywhere although not absolutely superbly glittering , everywhere was going to be tidy before I left . |
| 4 | The train was going to be late and there was nothing left in first class . |
| 5 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | It was going to be awkward and embarrassing . |
| 8 | ‘ At 2–0 I thought it was going to be easy but in the end it was n't easy at all , ’ admitted Charlton in his after-match press conference . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At the top of the stairs I thought I was going to be sick and returned stiffly to the bathroom . |
| 11 | He felt that bringing departments together to work towards a whole-school approach was going to be difficult and would be further complicated by the fact that some heads of department had unrealistic expectations of what the project might achieve . |
| 12 | As far as myself , Mike and Marius were concerned , this was a good thing , as it meant that the march was going to be tough and that those of us who finished would deserve their white képis . |
| 13 | ‘ Only , ’ he whispered , ‘ it was going to be hard and punishing . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Manager Eric Sortwell said : ‘ We knew it was going to be busy but not as busy as this . ’ |
| 16 | I could see he was going to be humble and it depressed me . |