Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] going to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet we knew that if a programme was going to work it had to be ‘ user friendly ’ — we had had enough of diet and exercise books written by doctors and self-proclaimed experts . |
| 2 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 3 | It is more significant how little patronage was going to men who were primarily the duke 's own servants . |
| 4 | He was last in England in 1972 , and used to say that his homeland was going to hell because of all the immigration . |
| 5 | We thought the difference was going to work out at around £60 . |
| 6 | ‘ I happened to mention that a mutual friend was going to Bibury with his girl for the weekend . |
| 7 | Dinda and I had a cottage in Stratford last , we made sure that father was going to Plymouth to Debbie 's for the week , he said he adores it down there |
| 8 | The first teacher I had in the infants was a Miss , she had a bad habit of rapping you across the knuckles with a ruler , and there was a pupil teacher Miss , funny thing about that is she , she , she came up to , Mr came up as headmaster and Miss came as a teacher , she was a pupil teacher it was n't necessary to go to college and get degrees in the , she , she used to be a pupil teacher in the infant school when I was at school , and Miss was actually at the sunshine school when my daughter was going to school . |
| 9 | She could still see the tableau this morning : her father with tears of pride in his eyes — she knew he would go to the business and bore everyone to death with tales about how his wonderful daughter was going to university . |
| 10 | Brenda 's cheeks still burned with shame when she remembered her mother 's insistence that she should visit Hoggatt 's to see where her daughter was going to work , although Chief Inspector Martin , the Senior Police Liaison Officer , had apparently thought it perfectly reasonable . |
| 11 | His sister Wil was going to Haarlem , and then to Amsterdam . |
| 12 | It was only towards the end of last year , when the book was going to press and space was tight , that I realised how important a contribution was made not only by my work , but also the work of all the women who had contributed to the Project both nationally and internationally . |
| 13 | As this book was going to press , an anonymous correspondent of The Weekend Telegraph wrote concerning the pop group House Of Love , whose single ‘ Shine On ’ had been re-recorded . |
| 14 | They 'd sit in the kitchen with a pot of tea just after dawn , their very different labours finishing just as the rest of the city was going to work . |
| 15 | An Israeli couple were going to Cuzco then flying to Lima . |
| 16 | Chola had taken the bull 's high spirits and responsiveness to the mantri as a sign that the treatment was going to work . |
| 17 | ‘ Even then , I knew the treatment was going to work , ’ she says . |
| 18 | Most Kenyan horn was going to Sana , in North Yemen , to be carved into status-symbol dagger handles . |
| 19 | I determined to discover if Mum was going to Miss Louise like the rest . |
| 20 | They were first introduced to me when I was 14 by friends who were 16 , 17 , 18 , who at that time were going to Art College and they introduced me as it was then to five-bob deals of black and stuff like that , y'know . |
| 21 | I was sitting in the sitting-room about to make a cup of coffee when I heard a huge bang and I thought the whole house was going to cave in . |
| 22 | It all began with the totally illogical decision to go to Cloggy when one of the only two cars in the party was going to Gogarth and the other to The Pass . |