Example sentences of "was going [prep] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I had planned where I was going to live and what projects I was going to be involved in . ’ |
| 3 | Fears that the Cockney comic was going to be involved in a bust-up sent officers racing to the 400-year-old luxury mansion he converted into a dream lovenest for Tracie . |
| 4 | As the constitutional reforms were to a very great degree imposed on the Japanese , the lead given by US authorities on interpreting the reforms was going to be crucial to post-Occupation Japan . |
| 5 | He could see with half an eye that the kid 's aunt was going to be one of the confident , bossy , well-connected women with whom that part of Cambridgeshire was substantially over-provided . |
| 6 | Instinct told me it was going to be one of those days the moment I removed the little grey shrivelled chicken from the oven . |
| 7 | Thirdly , something James could not know when the season began , 1976 was going to be one of the most contentious seasons , politically and administratively , that I have ever known in the sport , and there were several times in the year when it really looked as though the fates were conspiring to make it impossible for Hunt to win . |
| 8 | There were all sorts of jokes about National Service and this was going to be one of them — the barracks filled with misfits who no more wanted to wear a khaki uniform than they felt like taking poison ( which some of them thought was what they were given three times a day in the cookhouse ) . |
| 9 | I thought it was going to be one of those horrific accidents but it does n't seem like it now because he was brutally injured . ’ |
| 10 | Did he think his chef was going to be pleased with his achievement ? |
| 11 | She sounded as if it was something he was going to be pleased about . |
| 12 | It did n't look as if that particular conversation was going to be necessary in this case . |
| 13 | Yeah , yeah , I 'm , none the less we have got the comments of three , three in front of us and we see that the accumulate effect was going to be dangerous in the extreme if the money is not forthcoming |
| 14 | Guy 's low voice had a hypnotic quality which had a strangely calming effect on Lucy , but even so Virginia had an appalling fear that everything was going to be far from all right . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I was going to be late for Jack Mason and made for the door . |
| 17 | Branches clawed at her hair and she felt like she had done years ago , waiting for Jezrael to catch up , knowing she was going to be late for school , but she could n't leave her sister to struggle in on her own . |
| 18 | At this rate she was going to be late for her appointment ! |
| 19 | He was going to be late for his appointment with Crowther and the Monroe girl . |
| 20 | No , I had decided that whatever I washoping to do , I was going to do on my own so if anyone was going to be proud of me they were going to be proud of me for legitimate reasons . |
| 21 | In fact it became clear that a considerable part of the defence was going to be that of justification , that the laws and usages of war permitted reprisals to be taken against hostages . |
| 22 | The February 1974 election turned out to be close , but few thought it was going to be close at the time . |
| 23 | Her school was going to be right with it , modem , classless , with no absurd delusions about exclusivity . |
| 24 | ‘ The girl was going to be unconscious in another two seconds , or have to submit . |
| 25 | It was going to be well into the next bio-day , I knew , before we made all the Netline interactions that would bring us to the rendezvous point . |
| 26 | Only John and Nora could see it , for only they knew of the terrible demand that would sooner or later be made on their resources — and it was going to be well over the hundred thousand that John had estimated . |
| 27 | When the Countess saw that Emily was going to be good for nothing , she let us have this house , as I say — she was Scottish , and had property here that was mostly sold after she died . |
| 28 | He advocated the combined system and regretted that , at the very moment when state aid was going to be available for the education of the deaf and dumb for the first time , oral teaching was recommended by the Report of the Royal Commission . |
| 29 | I had erm I was going to be representative of this committee at a erm safety seminar for three days at the beginning of this week that I was n't able to go to , and Councillor Kurtz has very kindly gone in my place , which is why she is not able to come to this meeting . |
| 30 | In a recent large UK search the company in question called on five of the major search firms , and invited them all in to make a competitive pitch to decide who was going to be successful at finding them a group chief executive . |