Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There were all sorts of jokes about National Service and this was going to be one of them — the barracks filled with misfits who no more wanted to wear a khaki uniform than they felt like taking poison ( which some of them thought was what they were given three times a day in the cookhouse ) . |
| 32 | Newcastle reckoned their match against Oxford was going to be one big party . |
| 33 | I thought it was going to be one of those horrific accidents but it does n't seem like it now because he was brutally injured . ’ |
| 34 | I thought it was going to be marvellous . |
| 35 | I thought it was going to be worse than it was . |
| 36 | It was going to be worse even than she had feared . |
| 37 | She sounded as if it was something he was going to be pleased about . |
| 38 | Did he think his chef was going to be pleased with his achievement ? |
| 39 | And I was determined that everywhere although not absolutely superbly glittering , everywhere was going to be tidy before I left . |
| 40 | Because , after all , no-one had , as yet , told him that Presley City was going to be little more than blackened rubble in just two days time . |
| 41 | It did n't look as if that particular conversation was going to be necessary in this case . |
| 42 | Poor Maxine had such a low opinion of herself that it was going to be necessary to build up her confidence in general , so that she would then be able to play a part in her own treatment . |
| 43 | The captain ordered the carpenter and his mates to standby , as it was going to be necessary to cut the masts away to lighten the ship . |
| 44 | She said it was going to be foggy tonight . |
| 45 | I 'm in hot water over various things — nothing important enough to bore you with , but I know the director wants shot of me — he 's said as much and I 'm sure my days are numbered ; I feel like I 'm struggling to keep my head above water — Oh , I knew this particular pool was going to be deep , but he 's there waiting just above the surface to shove me under , finding some half-baked reason to be rid of me . |
| 46 | Yeah , yeah , I 'm , none the less we have got the comments of three , three in front of us and we see that the accumulate effect was going to be dangerous in the extreme if the money is not forthcoming |
| 47 | Guy 's low voice had a hypnotic quality which had a strangely calming effect on Lucy , but even so Virginia had an appalling fear that everything was going to be far from all right . |
| 48 | Could you just repeat the figures for capital expenditure I think you said that this year was going to be higher than last year and explain explain where the money gon na be invested |
| 49 | Annie was going to be late . |
| 50 | ‘ Tim always phoned if he was going to be late . |
| 51 | I was going to be late for Jack Mason and made for the door . |
| 52 | Always rang if she was going to be late , always let them know exactly where she was . |
| 53 | The train was going to be late and there was nothing left in first class . |
| 54 | Branches clawed at her hair and she felt like she had done years ago , waiting for Jezrael to catch up , knowing she was going to be late for school , but she could n't leave her sister to struggle in on her own . |
| 55 | At this rate she was going to be late for her appointment ! |
| 56 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
| 57 | If he was going to be late on parade — 3 p.m. , he 'd promised every pressure would be on the other two group leaders , Sheila Williams and Cedric Downes , to keep the tourists adequately amused by each of them shouldering an extra responsibility . |
| 58 | He was going to be late for his appointment with Crowther and the Monroe girl . |
| 59 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 60 | Now she was going to be nasty . |