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 .
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