Example sentences of "and [pron] were [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had so far managed to avoid being kissed by the old bat , but I had the strong feeling that , by the end of the day , she and I were going to be getting physical . |
| 2 | Some months later a colleague and I were returning to London from a meeting in Brussels . |
| 3 | And I said , and you were saying to me , what is it that you want ? |
| 4 | I 'm a boarder at a school in Derbyshire and a member of the school 's Army Cadets , and we were going to the Beacons as part of a self-reliance exercise . |
| 5 | We were clear , and we were going to be rich . |
| 6 | The last time I came through , Irene and I came through Colchester and we were going to Clacton . |
| 7 | And they were wanting to Some of them anyway wanted to join the Portobello branch . |
| 8 | Er , the I I also make the point , that er , my understanding is having now talked to a number of the other C A B's , that in fact they were looking to Thamesdown money advice centre because this money was actually to replace funds that previously had been er , available through the Allied Dunbar sponsorship scheme , and which has , which I gather was withdrawn er , at very short notice , and they were looking to Thamesdown to er provide that support and resource as a county resource , and I I therefore felt that it was right to bring it forward . |
| 9 | They were working-class grammar school boys and they were going to university . |
| 10 | ‘ Fabien loved her , and they were going to be married within weeks anyway . |
| 11 | and they were going to be here . |
| 12 | There were other acts by then like Morecambe and Wise and they were doing to us what we 'd done to others in our time . |
| 13 | For example , if someone gave as their hobbies on their CV only reading and chess , and they were applying to you for a job where they would be working with the public , might you not have doubts about that person ? |
| 14 | Thought it was only a day , and they were talking to somebody else on the ferry who said they did this trip every year did n't they ? |
| 15 | And they were saying to themselves , ‘ Why should time be the same for everyone ? |
| 16 | Many of those involved had reached the conclusion that the philanthropic provision of youth services was inadequate by itself for the task of tackling the economic , social , and what were coming to be regarded as educational problems concerning working-class adolescents . |