Example sentences of "they [was/were] go to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | In 1982 all these qualities looked as though they were going to be urgently required . |
| 4 | Whatever Messrs Mondale , Foot and Kinnock said about raising taxes in the 1980s , they were going to be beaten anyway . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She never did tell people what they were going to be doing . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At some stage in their lives they decided they were going to be a winner not a loser . |
| 12 | They were going to be late , unless he put that thought aside and got ready . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 14 | Now they were going to be given a chance to put their money where their mouths were . |
| 15 | 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 , |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | I think he was celebrating the coming of steam power , and showing the people of his time how much safer they were going to be on the seas , do n't you ? ’ |
| 20 | The confusion , fortified by a fear on the part of some members that they were going to be asked to make way for Austen Chamberlain and Birkenhead , gave Baldwin almost complete freedom . |
| 21 | The format worked well because the interviewees were never told in advance what they were going to be asked . |
| 22 | They were going to be out late and their help was away . |
| 23 | But such was the resistance from management , it was feared that it would become impossible to recruit top-quality personnel from the private sector if they were going to be subject to oversight from the Comptroller . |
| 24 | She was worried because she did not know if the rules of the house permitted her to go out walking with Finn and , besides , they were going to be late for dinner . |
| 25 | He saw them off on honeymoon and did n't know what to do with the weeks they were going to be away , until he thought of taking a total-immersion course in Italian . |
| 26 | Fenella gasped and felt the sour bitterness of evil magic touching her and remembered that the Stroicim Inchinn was the most strongly forbidden enchantment of all , and that whatever else they were going to be doing here , they were not going to be dealing with forbidden spells . |
| 27 | The consumer was helping to delay recovery ; the consumer was scared , afraid that they were going to be squeezed further . |
| 28 | We knew when and where they were going to be moved before their guards did . |
| 29 | Well as I say , I had , I do n't , I have n't really had any involvement really with talking to people about their experience of living in the flats until people knew that they were going to be moved out eventually . |
| 30 | At least , Barratt must have mused , they were going to be proved right or wrong . |