Example sentences of "was going [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My thoughts suddenly became alert : he was going to die of AIDS . |
| 2 | She came with him to Joe 's birthday party and danced mainly with Peter , though in the slow numbers she gave him no encouragement to smooch with her ; and when she danced with other people he thought that , quite literally , he was going to die of pain . |
| 3 | She had thought that she was going to die of shame . |
| 4 | ‘ They said he was going to die of exposure , at his age , ’ said Maximilian . |
| 5 | She was going to die with sweet ecstasy and he was going to drown . |
| 6 | I was n't going to struggle on if I was going to die in six months ! |
| 7 | ‘ She 's sleeping now , but we thought she was going to die in that last attack . ’ |
| 8 | She 'd already decided what she was going to cook for Rohan — home-made tomato soup to begin with , then le rosbif with all the trimmings , although she was going to cheat on the dessert and buy one of the beautifully glazed tartes aux pommes from a pâtisserie . |
| 9 | Fee income was still growing — we were very happy with the growth rate and everything was going according to the five-year plan we had drawn up at the time of the merger . |
| 10 | The book was all he had been waiting for , and all was going according to plan . |
| 11 | Although Swarf indicated all was going according to plan , Chopra knew this was not true . |
| 12 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 13 | Erm , actually on reflection , having seen the bit of disaster that occurred because erm unfortunately Freda did n't get the phone call until early Christmas day morning off her daughter , to say that instead of them coming up to here to see them that something had happened in London , could they go down to her , so she was prepared to do us a half an hour at half past one and then she was going to drive to London ! |
| 14 | For an awful moment I thought he was going to drive over the edge , but he stopped abruptly and we all got out . |
| 15 | It seemed as if everyone was going to conform to this funeral except him . |
| 16 | This unbelievable sensation hit me , like I was going to explode from the inside out . |
| 17 | And yet , why had his manner changed so abruptly when he learned that the girl whose hat he had rescued was going to live at Sunset Cottage ? |
| 18 | Not her grandfather ; not when she had come to fetch him ; not at last when he was going to live with her and everything was going to be all right . |
| 19 | I did n't see how I was going to live with the memory of him as it was ; I thought there must be something we could do , just something ; even one friendly lunch together might help . |
| 20 | But the next day Basil 's parents explained that she was going to live with her uncle in Yorkshire , in the north of England . |
| 21 | She told her son that she was going to live with friends in London . |
| 22 | They were going to rent a house and she was going to live with him . |
| 23 | This was not to last long however , for later in 1796 he wrote to all his friends and told them that he was going to live in London . |
| 24 | This was Ollie 's last time , he said , he was going to live in France . |
| 25 | She knew that it was going to seem like forever , waiting for her friends , because the time you spend waiting always seems longer than it really is . |
| 26 | Now he was going to yell at her . |
| 27 | PAUL Gascoigne felt he was going to pot without his favourite cuppa — so he asked a friend to bring some English tea-bags out to Rome . |
| 28 | we 've been slightly more amenable but invite to your club temerity to ask your Lordship rather me , but as I 'm on my feet , er ask your Lordship whether you could sit at all early on Friday as to help Mr er , I , I was little concerned to hear Mr say that he was going to wait for Mr he had responded because that would of course then extend more into Friday , it may be more sensible if Mr could have |
| 29 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 30 | He was going to wait in the corridor until Kopyion came out , and he would confront him . |