Example sentences of "that [pron] were [v-ing] to " in BNC.

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1 Apparently Alice had told her that I were going to town with them
2 ‘ We are told that you were chatting to him , amongst others , while you were waiting for a cab . ’
3 Speechlessly Fabia stared at him , and he went on to explain , ‘ Then last night , after a sublime day , we went out to dine and I began to admit to myself that you were getting to me in a big way . ’
4 Ah right yes so let me see , you were the one who said that you were getting to the S P S S stage or something were you ?
5 ‘ Why did n't my father tell me that you were going to be here ? ’ she asked petulantly , thinking that at least he would only be around during the daytime , and she could avoid him completely without too much trouble .
6 When it began to dawn that you were going to be out more than a fortnight or three weeks , did anything emerge that w that you can see was to keep you encouraged for that period ?
7 You did say er , Bishop that you were going to be frank and you certainly turned a few corners there for us to think about .
8 Now according to your theory that you were applying to that
9 I also heard that you were selling to a surgeon from the hospital . ’
10 I knew that you were talking to him about something
11 After a few moments the snuffles and grunts were overlaid by a voice explaining in sympathetically conspiratorial tones that we were listening to the sounds made by mating koalas in the Pilliga Nature Reserve in New South Wales .
12 He was certainly enjoying life more than ever before , and when Eva finally announced that we were moving to London he admitted that it was the right thing to do .
13 This was telling them — trying to bolster their morale — that we were coming to their aid when it was virtually impossible for us to aid them at that time .
14 This house was to be Lovat 's Brigade H.Q and it appeared that we were going to be there on high ground for some time .
15 It appeared that we were going to be there for some time .
16 I thought that we were going to be able to love without fear .
17 He 'd put his mind to it that he would n't , you know this he had it in mind that we were going to work for this thirty pound a week less , take it or leave it .
18 So I 'm a little tired of that and I was very happy to hear that we were going to be exchanging ideas about how we can go forward .
19 Clearly if I had been aware that we were going to be talking about the merits of other routes , then I would have prepared a different statement .
20 It 's relevant perhaps to report hereof that John Dennis has done a very useful spreadsheet of erm video profitability on a erm video by video basis , which we have actually a sort of profit and loss account for every year it was produced , and that is going to become a quarterly erm document which we can look at erm and that that 's very useful to and we did actually at our meeting discussing that yesterday we decided that we were going to erm try to break down erm the sales of that into title by market , did n't we ?
21 Benny realised that there were going to be a great many areas where she would be at a loss .
22 My next thought was that there were going to be a lot of other pissed-off people .
23 And T X R X , B B C Radio Nottingham , to the effect that there were going to be these regular advice sessions at , which is the ac the tenants ' action group office .
24 And most of you are probably aware that last year the the company tried to renege on their P L C P L C status and buy out existing shareholders erm and the furore surrounding that erm the price that they were trying to repurchase the shares from the existing shareholders er caused a lot of discontentment er surrounding that scenario .
25 Then he realised that they were referring to their own attack on him .
26 He found now he was speaking to all the eagles in the Cages and that they were listening to him .
27 The pupils were allowed to think that they were listening to the voices of 12 different speakers , but actually there were only 9 .
28 The giants had taken Tara for their own and when Tealtaoich and the others had fled to the Forest Court , Nuadu had gone with them , neither quite one of them nor quite not one of them , but feeling a cautious kinship with them and discovering , with cynical amusement , that they were looking to him to lead them back .
29 It was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Medau College in Berlin in 1929 but not much was made of this , Dr Jochen Medau explained that they were looking to the future rather than the past .
30 He was subtly changed now that they were flying to his mountain abode .
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