Example sentences of "it was go [prep] [be] " in BNC.

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1 It was going to be a rotten summer .
2 It was going to be sheer pain to say it , but acid agony to hold it in .
3 Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’
4 The particular premises that Let It Rock occupied had always been in the very vanguard of London fashion trends but working there was n't as much of a shock as I thought it was going to be at first .
5 Undoubtedly it was going to be a beautiful day , a summer 's day such as is unequalled anywhere in the world but in the South of England , a day that begins with mists , burgeons into tropical glory and dies in blue and gold and stars .
6 It looked as though it was going to be another fine day .
7 Nannies were inevitable and , within their social set , also very much the norm ; but the choice of Barbara Barnes to look after William was an indication that it was going to be a relaxed regime : she had no formal training , never wore a uniform and liked children to call her by her Christian name .
8 The last word must go to Nick : ‘ She said it was going to be different , but I did n't realise quite how different .
9 But anyway , we created that whole idea that no-one could photograph him , no-one could do do a story on him unless it was going to be a cover story , which was outrageous because he was virtually unknown in America .
10 It was going to be a major battle and there were plenty of press predictions that the radical changes would cost us the next general election .
11 He felt sure the man had been paid some sort of allowance for putting him up , but it did n't look as if any of it was going to be spent on food .
12 Left to myself I might have tried to persuade , to plead , to wheedle , to say how nice it was going to be at home .
13 All around him , the film of water left by the tide shimmered in the sunshine : it was going to be a beautiful day .
14 Just because Hawks were going to go to Iran and I was wondering how many planes it was going to be this time .
15 Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too .
16 There was something cold-blooded about using his father 's death to make a poem ; she had changed the names so that she could attempt to get it published , and it was going to be .
17 The February 1974 election turned out to be close , but few thought it was going to be close at the time .
18 Although manager Billy Bonds refuses to give up , he admitted : ‘ I think in the last month we have always felt it was going to be very difficult for us .
19 I thought it was going to be worse than it was .
20 I really thought it was going to be sort of ‘ You must not drink ever again' and ‘ You naughty boy , you must n't do it ever again' sort of thing .
21 I had the idea that it was going to be ‘ Do this , do that ’ but it was n't like that .
22 It was going to be a long day .
23 She hoped it was going to be reasonably warm in Templeton 's .
24 ‘ You did n't tell me it was going to be anything like this ! ’
25 It was going to be a bleak February .
26 He did n't explain why it was going to be helpful and the pilot told him the car he 'd specified was waiting for them .
27 I met Mr Palmer outside the T & A building and I just felt it was going to be a bit of a funny day .
28 Eric Brown then went and did that in the third round , but at that stage I thought it was going to be between Peter , Christy and Dave .
29 He was our biggest danger in the end , although I thought it was going to be Tom 's four-ball partner Bert Yancey who might prove the biggest threat .
30 When I 'd checked the pin positions in the morning I 'd decided that it was going to be someone already under par who would be in a position to win next day as opposed to someone coming through the field , because I just could n't see anybody scoring well .
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