Example sentences of "[vb past] they [be] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can make tracks and footmarks in the snow , and on finding footmarks can guess which way the person who made them was going . |
| 2 | Yes I hardly imagined they were going diving off Scarborough or Bridlington and I thought , oh no ! |
| 3 | Under any other business Humphrey challenged ha reported that he had challenged British Nuclear advertising campaign in which they claimed they 're going to cause pollution . |
| 4 | They reckoned They was going to pull it down after the War . |
| 5 | I 'm concerned for the people who are waiting for housing , I 'm concerned about young people who are living in i i in ten er , on the tenth floor of high rise flats , these people have been waiting a very very long time and each time er , the er these they are , the properties are er , de-counted they are going further and further behind . |
| 6 | It was not until they had just left the Church that Joan discovered they were going for two weeks to Tenerife . |
| 7 | At some stage in their lives they decided they were going to be a winner not a loser . |
| 8 | Mm some people decided they were going to work as a , as a group on their table , to gather information and when you were doing the tallies last week , you helped each other did n't you , some of you helped , you were talking to one another to help make sure that you got the right number of tallies , if you worked with some other people to get the survey questions and do the tallies , sign it , if you did everything on your own , leave it blank is anyone not sure what to do there ? |
| 9 | They had gone , all four of them , almost before Bob realized they were going . |
| 10 | Erm , they write down nothing , they remember nothing , and I have to phone these clowns every other day , to make sure that they 're doing what we agreed they 're going to , otherwise I have no panels next month for my stand , and I would be up the creek . |
| 11 | Social workers visited Celia and Danny to arrange sessions at a family centre , but the couple announced they were going to spend two weeks in Hackney with Danny 's mother . |
| 12 | There was n't a dry eye on the set when Toby , 27 , and Sara , 26 , announced they were going to get married . |
| 13 | She was taken by surprise by the friendly smile he turned on her , and for a moment she dreamed they were going on a holiday together that had nothing to do with Dana and Garry and everything to do with each other . |
| 14 | For once they managed to evade the searchlights , dodge the guard-dogs , tunnel under the barbed wire and make it back to the sanctuary of their bunks before Stein and the Stalag Squad knew they were gone . |
| 15 | They knew they were going to lose . |
| 16 | It was the same when The Who smashed their gear at the end : everyone would turn up just to see them smash their gear and it was n't cool , because everybody knew they were going to do it . |
| 17 | When he got too much praise in training , Probyn said : ‘ I knew they were going to try someone else . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You mean you knew they were going ? ’ |
| 19 | When he knew they were going to surrender in the morning , he slipped away from his unit . |
| 20 | George Leeming , who did n't understand Russian , relaxed as the other men stepped forward to support him ; he knew they were going to help him . |
| 21 | None of us really knew what we were going to see , and in the early days the tapes were rather artificial because the lessons were all so well prepared , the kids knew they were going to have a video in the classes , it did n't mean that they were always well behaved ! |
| 22 | Oh , must be Friday then , I knew they were going away for the week , weekend |
| 23 | They were losing and she knew they were going to lose and their last bloke was coming in and she was cheering them on . |
| 24 | ‘ I understood they were going back home . ’ |
| 25 | Getting people to change their approach and expect that with training , expect to have to analyze what they what they thought they 're going to get out of it , why they should be doing it . |
| 26 | I thought they was going to catch a train , and that 's why they was hugging and kissing and that , but I du n no — maybe they was just planning to go away or summat . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought they were going to shoot us . |
| 28 | And he thought they were going to buy him a parrot . |
| 29 | We thought they were going to follow us , so we took a really weird route home , ’ says Peter . |
| 30 | Other bands just would n't give a toss , they 'd pose like they were asked if they thought they were going to get a front cover . ’ |