Example sentences of "was going to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was wondering when I was going to be let free to do the work of the Lord . ’ |
| 2 | Was going to tell her this morning , but when I came downstairs and saw her packing up that cake — when I remembered he was going to be there , that I 'd have to see his smug damned face , hear that ghastly loud laugh of his … |
| 3 | It was going to be a rotten summer . |
| 4 | On a Wednesday there was a rumour flying around Jersey House that the building was going to be sold ; on the following Monday , the rumour was confirmed as fact . |
| 5 | This meant that there was now effectively a time limit on how long I was going to be able to stay in my broom cupboard . |
| 6 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 7 | The instructor may have been wondering if the height was going to be sufficient for a normal approach even though the student had already cut out the base leg to make a 180° turn on to finals . |
| 8 | It was going to be sheer pain to say it , but acid agony to hold it in . |
| 9 | Lucy who did n't know she was going to be pounced on . |
| 10 | Little did he know that , for the saddest of reasons , he was going to be thrust into the national , even international spotlight . |
| 11 | I was trying to make out what sort of creature I was going to be living with ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I knew I was going to be tough to beat this week . |
| 13 | Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’ |
| 14 | Any judge faced with cases of this type found it very difficult because whatever the decision , somebody was going to be grievously hurt . |
| 15 | Amid mounting rumours that the Sunday Telegraph was going to be abolished , Mr Knight announced that the editorial staff of the two titles would be pooled , under the editorship of Max Hastings . |
| 16 | His brother has never driven a cab before either ; this was going to be his first day . |
| 17 | He bewildered his audience for a moment , and then moved them , when he suddenly turned a political invective about government 's neglect of the environment into a lament that one of the sad losses was going to be the poetry of the countryside , the pastorals of a Vergil or a Theocritus . |
| 18 | POWELL : Ah , ah , I , I am saying in addition that that either meant that the thing was going to be vetoed anyhow by the Falkland Islanders , and that therefore even if Britain wanted to get rid of , of sovereignty , she was n't going to get rid of it in terms of her own statement ; or that the Falkland Islanders were going to be put under so much pressure , ah — we need n't go into the details of what is meant in those connections , by pressure ; I 'm sure the Foreign Office will supply the details if requested — ah , would be put under so much pressure that eventually they would collapse and give way . |
| 19 | The particular premises that Let It Rock occupied had always been in the very vanguard of London fashion trends but working there was n't as much of a shock as I thought it was going to be at first . |
| 20 | That summer I thought I was going to be able to work in the shop full-time up until I started at St. Martin 's School of Art in the autumn . |
| 21 | I realised I was going to be nicked . |
| 22 | He ca n't have put it there for effect because he did n't know who was going to be there . |
| 23 | Productivity had to go up and this was going to be achieved through the introduction of new capital rather than the introduction of new labour . |
| 24 | I was going to be moved whether I liked it or not . |
| 25 | I was going to be chairman and chief executive and Bob Clarke , my chief executive , was going to run the food side . |
| 26 | ‘ For 25 minutes it was difficult to see who was going to be exhausted first , ’ said David , 36 , Caithness SAA secretary . |
| 27 | ‘ Having been so close to winning the title in the past few years I thought this was going to be my chance but the draws have just dried up and I ca n't seem to get near fish , ’ said Dave from Hednesford , Staffordshire . |
| 28 | Charlie was going to be his best man . |
| 29 | Undoubtedly it was going to be a beautiful day , a summer 's day such as is unequalled anywhere in the world but in the South of England , a day that begins with mists , burgeons into tropical glory and dies in blue and gold and stars . |
| 30 | It 's his wedding day and Charlie was going to be his best man . |