Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [v-ing] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should there , were you expecting to be lots of quiffs on those |
| 2 | You got letters from home , from your father asking when you were going to settle down and get a proper job , or were you going to be an ‘ eternal student ’ ? |
| 3 | Were we going to be looking at guys backing into the path of oncoming lorries in order to preserve the decencies ? |
| 4 | What were we going to be doing in the morning if you 've had the ? |
| 5 | Rab , this talk about him , his complaint , wondered , the pair , were they trying to be funny ? |
| 6 | How long were they going to be there ? |
| 7 | Then ask — " Who was I pretending to be ? " |
| 8 | ‘ Why was she going to be made into bacon ? ’ |
| 9 | Eve had said not only was she going to be free for lunch , she would meet Benny off the bus and walk her up to University College . |
| 10 | The third night , above the rattling progress of a late train , he had pummelled Zoë with his fists , and not heard the frightened crying of his children , when she had said that no fucking way was she going to be holed up for the rest of her days in bloody , bloody Damascus . |
| 11 | Was she going to be left as the only witness ? |
| 12 | As Jenny had used James , so was she going to be used as Matthew 's instrument of retaliation . |
| 13 | She was committed to this trip , it was too late to do anything about it , but how , she asked herself , was she going to be able to work with a man she did n't even like ? |
| 14 | She wished it even more after she dropped the message in the dead letter box , for there was one waiting to be collected . |
| 15 | Was there going to be no objection , no earthquake , no disasters ? |
| 16 | Foster , whose own career started at the tender age of 3 , discovered 9-year-old Adam in a New York classroom : ‘ It was him wanting to be something that drew me , ’ she says . |
| 17 | Was he going to be chained here for evening after evening , tearing his soul to pieces with a moral dilemma to which he was no longer sure there was one certain simple answer ? |
| 18 | Was he going to be like this towards every woman his younger brother brought home ? |
| 19 | Not only was he going to be absolutely furious about her being in this police station , but she dreaded having to tell her cousin about it too . |
| 20 | When was it going to be ? |
| 21 | Was it going to be the You Are Cold and Unfeeling Row , the Why Are You So Feeble Row , the Fat Row , the Racist Row , the Right-Wing how , the Left-Wing Row , the Merits of Jane Austen Row , the Driving Row , the Looking After Maisie Row or the Why Are You so Bitter and Twisted Row . |
| 22 | Now what kind of war was it going to be ? |
| 23 | Was it going to be a rap on the knuckles for quality ? |
| 24 | Just as I was myself going to be killed , the village people managed to save me and take me up to the mountain , but I had lost too much blood and died anyway . |