Example sentences of "was [v-ing] to work " in BNC.
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1 | When Paul called me back to ask whether he was serious about this , I replied , yes , although I must admit I did n't hear strings and flutes on ‘ Space Oddity ’ at the beginning but once the track was done , it was obvious that it was going to work really well . |
2 | In a letter to Zborowski dated 27 February , he told his dealer that he was going to work at No. 13 Rue de France . |
3 | It was going to work . |
4 | They 'd sit in the kitchen with a pot of tea just after dawn , their very different labours finishing just as the rest of the city was going to work . |
5 | Chola had taken the bull 's high spirits and responsiveness to the mantri as a sign that the treatment was going to work . |
6 | Yet we knew that if a programme was going to work it had to be ‘ user friendly ’ — we had had enough of diet and exercise books written by doctors and self-proclaimed experts . |
7 | Marcia Fleat , 39 , was going to work at an old folk 's home when her Vauxhall was hit as it pulled out of a junction . |
8 | ‘ Even then , I knew the treatment was going to work , ’ she says . |
9 | ( CBHP ) I was going to work for ? |
10 | Tell me some of the things that happen when you 're you 're working out a function , what would what would be the the overall picture if someone was going to work out a function ? |
11 | But they allowed all strikers er to have er free credit , free credit , and er well of course this six bob was what we got o practically on an ordinary weeks work , was about as well off on strike then and we was going to work you see . |
12 | Brenda 's cheeks still burned with shame when she remembered her mother 's insistence that she should visit Hoggatt 's to see where her daughter was going to work , although Chief Inspector Martin , the Senior Police Liaison Officer , had apparently thought it perfectly reasonable . |
13 | ‘ I was going to work this afternoon . ’ |
14 | ‘ Tony did some sketches last year and he was going to work them up into a picture — why have n't you , Tony ? ’ |
15 | If he was going to work with Merymose , they both had to reach a position of trust . |
16 | When Jessamy reached the house she collected her painting materials , rough sketches and a couple of books she thought she might need , then made her way to the drawing-room where she was going to work . |
17 | There was a knock on my door and my mother came into my room to tell me that she was going to work . |
18 | What did someone who was going to work on a production line need to learn French for ? |
19 | She began to wonder if Matthew knew himself that she was coming , that she was going to work for him again . |
20 | Well , in a way it was n't dangerous I 'd say , it was a very worked plan and it would have worked if the letter had got there , so I know it was going to work and I would not say it was dangerous . |
21 | Ross had been adamant that no wife of his was going to work . |
22 | There was a fair indication too that , if she got the job , she was going to work harder than she had ever worked , in that she would have an assistant to work with her . |
23 | We thought the difference was going to work out at around £60 . |
24 | Just as I was going to work . |
25 | I wish I was going to work . |
26 | He was going to work for fifteen hundred were n't he ? |
27 | No I was a , it was when I was going to work , in was in the afternoon like . |
28 | Yes , yes he was going to work and he put the brick on the pedal while he 's jumped in the back pulling on his trousers and st st steering with |
29 | And what about , do you remember the day , Bernard , she was coming to work ? |
30 | Mr Pickering , a welding inspector , was travelling to work in the Lake District last October when he collided with a white Mercedes wagon . |