Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today was proving to be full of revelations , major and minor , and I sipped my champagne to cover my embarrassment . |
| 2 | What I was looking at was identical with the " White Cliffs of Dover " in England and the rolling plateau of Picardy in France , the quarries of southern Sweden and the cliffs of eastern Denmark . |
| 3 | ’ But Aunt Louise had closed her eyes and was pretending to be asleep . |
| 4 | She sensed he was pretending to be asleep when she got in to bed . |
| 5 | I was pretending to be another man , but losing my own heart . |
| 6 | I could see he was going to be unhappy about it for a long time , and that there was nothing I could do about it . |
| 7 | I was going to be lazier than I had ever been in my life ! |
| 8 | And somewhere inside it , was the Presley hoard , or was going to be real shortly . |
| 9 | One manager was primarily responsible for securing the new product line , and for persuading management colleagues that their novel approach to organizational design and management style was going to be effective . |
| 10 | ‘ I had planned where I was going to live and what projects I was going to be involved in . ’ |
| 11 | Fears that the Cockney comic was going to be involved in a bust-up sent officers racing to the 400-year-old luxury mansion he converted into a dream lovenest for Tracie . |
| 12 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted . |
| 13 | He was seeking to trade information , and he was going to be disappointed . |
| 14 | If he expected her to fawn the way the Customs officer had done he was going to be disappointed . |
| 15 | It was going to be sheer pain to say it , but acid agony to hold it in . |
| 16 | If they made it , it was going to be great . |
| 17 | It was going to be 586 feet high , with 900 feet long sides . |
| 18 | As the constitutional reforms were to a very great degree imposed on the Japanese , the lead given by US authorities on interpreting the reforms was going to be crucial to post-Occupation Japan . |
| 19 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought it was going to be first come , first served . ’ |
| 21 | He did n't explain why it was going to be helpful and the pilot told him the car he 'd specified was waiting for them . |
| 22 | We lived in a tall , narrow Victorian house , which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war , when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat . |
| 23 | ‘ It made it seem as if it was going to be superficial . |
| 24 | I was going to be seductive , with satin pyjamas and satin-smooth hair — and a discretely protected reproductive system . |
| 25 | You remember they did the changeover five or six years ago now , and the schools were mi er were getting mix er er they were mixed sexes and they were Archbishop Holgate 's was going to be two sexes and so was Queen Anne 's . |
| 26 | He could see with half an eye that the kid 's aunt was going to be one of the confident , bossy , well-connected women with whom that part of Cambridgeshire was substantially over-provided . |
| 27 | Because the two subjects were approached separately what was going to be one piece became almost like two stories . |
| 28 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 29 | Instinct told me it was going to be one of those days the moment I removed the little grey shrivelled chicken from the oven . |
| 30 | Thirdly , something James could not know when the season began , 1976 was going to be one of the most contentious seasons , politically and administratively , that I have ever known in the sport , and there were several times in the year when it really looked as though the fates were conspiring to make it impossible for Hunt to win . |