Example sentences of "[adv] [was/were] going [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was vital to give the impression at any rate that I and my board colleagues were in control of affairs and that we had a clear strategy that somehow was going to restore our business to its former glory . |
| 2 | and luckily that the , the song that we did was funny and so people enjoyed it , but they did n't understand it and they did n't have a visual image of the artist 's work , so I now have to take erm a couple of pictures , er prints with me if ever were going to read it and we sing those songs but not everybody does , and then they do become excessible you know , they can see , you know , that erm , yes erm if it , if I was going to publish a book of poem I , it would have to be stated that this related to this picture and presumably it 'd have to be , it would be with it , with it |
| 3 | Erm , thought it would be nice at handicrafts afternoon and then we could throw the handicraft meeting open to anybody if I told them at the meeting before were going to have it . |
| 4 | He sat back down next to her , but he still did n't look at her , and she had a sinking feeling that he really was going to tell her the truth about Nicole , but it would not be to her liking . |
| 5 | ‘ You knew that no one around here was going to help us . |
| 6 | This clause , crisply abbreviated to the phrase ‘ no peace beyond the line ’ , recognized that the Spanish were not going to admit that anyone was entitled to contest the Papal award and also that nobody else was going to take it seriously . |
| 7 | In Sinead 's interview , she proposed a motion which says : ‘ If everyone else was going to do it , would you be prepared to live without money ? ’ |
| 8 | Meaning that , if he had n't managed to earn respect during his lifetime , no amount afterwards was going to do him any good . |