Example sentences of "going [to-vb] and [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I 'm going to promise and you 've got to remind me about this promise that the next Tuesday , that 's when you 're or even Wednesday , but if I give it you Tuesday we can be organized for Wednesday ca n't we ? |
| 2 | I asked if they were going to win and they replied ‘ No ’ that was all ‘ No ’ … |
| 3 | I said it 's an application in triplicate I 'm go I 'd erm , I forgotten what it was I was going to buy and I said I wanted to discuss this with you and when we can go and get it |
| 4 | He told us what he was going to do and we knew some people were going to get killed , but that 's just life . |
| 5 | Then she asked me what I was going to do and I had to say I wanted to go with her . |
| 6 | I I explained to him exactly what I was going to do and he said , okay . |
| 7 | And then she starts demanding to know what they 're going to do and he keeps saying they 're gon na write , they 're gon na write , they 're gon na write . |
| 8 | His chest felt as if it was going to burst and he felt sick and dizzy as he settled down to a steady plod . |
| 9 | Not so much tears but you know how they get sometimes , you think they 're going to cry and they do n't , they just keep going on and on . |
| 10 | I mean I ca n't get my hands covered with flour and egg and stuff if he 's going to cry and I 've got to pick him up , can I ? |
| 11 | ‘ Sara told me my letter was going to arrive and we decided to storm up to Leeds really quickly . |
| 12 | ‘ I had planned where I was going to live and what projects I was going to be involved in . ’ |
| 13 | I became frightened ; I thought she was going to die and I felt sick . |
| 14 | Whatever arrives , but you just do n't know what your going to get , no , it 's flown in er trying to think it comes in four days a week by air , it 's selling at a good price but you do n't know what your going to get and I mean , you could n't , you could n't risk using it somewhere like this , so , it , the chances of selling it . |
| 15 | Eventually it dawned on me that he was n't going to change and I had the choice of either leaving or learning to live with it . |
| 16 | What we tend to do is to brief ourselves very thoroughly on vulnerable spots in the world , and in countries where we already have links and where we 've worked before and we know the background because we , we feel we need that and we monitor very carefully certain events which could lead to a disaster , so that when the disaster does happen , like for instance the Ugandan famine of nineteen seventy-nine to eighty-one , we knew exactly when it was going to happen and we knew exactly where the people were , we knew who was going to be affected , we knew why they were affected , we knew where the food stocks were , we knew how long it was going to take to get so many thousand tonnes of food from A to B erm and how many trucks you would need . |
| 17 | But a minute later I could see what was going to happen and I began thinking every which way of how to change the subject . |
| 18 | I have to confess that I had not anticipated the direction that your inquiries were going to take and I feel that my immediate responses were fragmented and unhelpful . |
| 19 | Change the observations you were going to make and you had a new situation , even if the system to be observed remained the same . |