Example sentences of "they [was/were] [v-ing] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though his critics maintain they were trying to be constructive and wanted him to stay , Sutton was convinced that the criticism had been organized in advance as a warning that if he did not go , as Pilger was demanding , they would make life hell for him . |
| 2 | They were trying to be advisers and salesmen at once . |
| 3 | They were getting to be quite good friends now , after an initial slightly guilty mistrust on Belinda 's part . |
| 4 | I thought they were pretending to be offended — but people were honestly upset by it and I was flabbergasted . ’ |
| 5 | The party 's spin-doctors had remained sceptical about the polls , but they were expecting to be able to argue that the Conservatives had lost their mandate , even if they were clinging to power in a hung parliament . |
| 6 | ‘ The public were placed in fear when they were expecting to be shopping peacefully . |
| 7 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 8 | Others living at the house said they were waiting to be reunited with Marita and her Mr Loren to find out exactly what happened . |
| 9 | They were ceasing to be the almost monastic institutions of the past . |
| 10 | Erm the the Kuomintang , make no mistake about it , were committed to a national revolution erm an and therefore they were revolutionary , they were , they were claiming to be as revolutionary as the communists . |
| 11 | October the fourteenth , so they were having to be ordered at , next week , wo n't they ? |
| 12 | Every now and again people would step neatly aside while the person they were talking to was sick on the floor . |
| 13 | The Walshes had been caught in a strange yet powerful trap and it was difficult to see how they were going to be able to break free . |
| 14 | The appointment of Mr Stürmer , a friend of Chancellor Kohl and a man often seen on television , made some of the staff fear they were going to be ‘ politicised ’ . |
| 15 | In 1982 all these qualities looked as though they were going to be urgently required . |
| 16 | Whatever Messrs Mondale , Foot and Kinnock said about raising taxes in the 1980s , they were going to be beaten anyway . |
| 17 | On the other hand , the teacher could have injected an element extrinsic to the drama in the structure by warning the listeners beforehand that they were going to be required to make an accurate report to the rest of the class with the talkers assessing their report for accuracy . |
| 18 | He said that the departure from Kabrit was a delightfully vague affair with nobody really having any clear idea of how long they were going to be away for , and not giving two hoots anyway . |
| 19 | Moreover , the ordinary soldiers never knew when , if ever , they were going to be moved ; army orders are notoriously arbitrary , capricious and incomprehensible to those receiving them . |
| 20 | She never did tell people what they were going to be doing . |
| 21 | What they did not foresee was that people got the impression they were going to be crushed or trampled underfoot and , though the 30,000 portions of pie were eaten , many people opted to stay away . |
| 22 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 23 | At some stage in their lives they decided they were going to be a winner not a loser . |
| 24 | They were going to be late , unless he put that thought aside and got ready . |
| 25 | ‘ whereby that person is likely to believe that such violence would be used or it is likely that such violence would be provoked ’ The officer dealing and/or civilian witnesses could help prove this point by including in their evidence observations such as , ‘ The crowd of visiting football supporters were likely to believe they were going to be attacked ’ , or ‘ It was likely that the visiting supporters would lose their tempers and attack the home crowd ’ . |
| 26 | Now they were going to be given a chance to put their money where their mouths were . |
| 27 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 28 | He could n't use his own car because they were going to be way out of radio range , and he needed the car telephone with the scrambler attachment . |
| 29 | Apparently Swedish cows , secure in the knowledge that they were going to be stunned by true Aryans before they were slaughtered , were happy and friendly towards man ; British cows , who might be bled to death for kosher meat , had no such guarantee and were morose and sullen as a result . |
| 30 | You see , I suddenly felt that I could n't bear it , not knowing where they were going to be for the next three and a half weeks ( though in retrospect I doubt whether the location of the groom much perturbed me ) . |