Example sentences of "[was/were] [not/n't] go to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He had , and was going to have , the worst hangover of his life , but even in the throes of it he was aware of a sense of relief that they were staying there , they were not going to Greece .
2 The scene was set for confrontation and as these confrontations continued without an end in sight , it became clear that the usual tactics of the unions were not going to work .
3 The three boys set out , but they walked so slowly that Oliver thought they were not going to work at all .
4 They knew now that it was on these and on nothing else that their lives depended , and they were not going to waste anything they possessed between them .
5 specifically told you from yesterday but you just , I said I 'm sorry but you did n't , you did not say that you were n't to go to lunch
6 I would say do n't give them away , if they were n't going to Emma .
7 I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work .
8 He might have bullied her mother into submission , but those tactics were n't going to work on her any more .
9 Aha I thought they were n't going to work for him Did he get the job at
10 Sh when er when Emma told me that erm Richard said that they probably were n't going to Tramps I was , I was walking around going oh boo hoo boo hoo I 'm so sad all the time going oh boo hoo boo hoo
11 At 9 p.m. the women sat down in the common room and said they were n't going to bed until the heating was fixed .
12 ‘ He was just about to go away on business when Charles rang to tell him we were n't going to St Lucia after all .
13 And I told you not tell anyone and you were n't going to Mary !
14 Sadly , it was not going to work .
15 My ploy of leading our little group of producers with programme instruction by example was a compromise that was not going to work .
16 After a moment or two , the maternity nurse , finding that her ruse of trying to get mother and baby more acquainted was not going to work , took him from her .
17 He thought he had better leave the pistol where it was ; it was much too heavy to carry around if it was not going to work .
18 Keith Simmons , Alborne 's lethal striker , put them ahead with a goal from the centre spot right on kick-off , and it was immediately obvious that our radical 0-2-7 formation was not going to work .
19 Robyn raised the glass to her lips and took a first sip ; she had a feeling that counting to ten was not going to work , but she tried it all the same .
20 As they were certain about only one thing , their fourth child was not going to Holland Park Comprehensive , they followed the psychologist 's advice and Emma , from eight years onwards , had a happy , if conventional education at boarding school , first at Knighton House in Dorset and then , at thirteen , moving to the more traditional Cranborne Chase .
21 The first sign that the jump was not going to plan came when the parachutists seemed to have trouble forming up .
22 She was not going to back down on this one , you could tell .
23 Yeah , oh it was predictable that was n't go to work .
24 Bez got all upset and started muttering and picking at his scabs and Shaun Ryder kept going on about how it was Bez did n't like to see men cows doing it and he was n't going to apologies for it .
25 It would have been stupid to say I was n't going to sleep with him , because I knew I would .
26 ‘ They tell me you only get that very strong black espresso coffee — not even cappuccino — and the cups are only half full , ’ Mervyn persisted , so that Ianthe had to protest that she was n't going to Rome only to eat and drink .
27 Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off
28 However , as the medical picture became more clear , there became more and more a sense of underlying tension , with heroic care being delivered by people possessing the knowledge that it was n't going to work .
29 There was always the point in the conversation where we knew it just was n't going to work .
30 And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work .
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