Example sentences of "who was going to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ca n't have put it there for effect because he did n't know who was going to be there . |
| 2 | ‘ For 25 minutes it was difficult to see who was going to be exhausted first , ’ said David , 36 , Caithness SAA secretary . |
| 3 | Erika took her dressing-gown and slipped out , deftly avoiding her mother who was going to her room . |
| 4 | When he visited Lewis at Magdalen ( Barfield was now working as a solicitor in London ) , the two friends often reverted to their ‘ Great War ’ and there was no doubt , any longer , who was going to be the victor . |
| 5 | Later , Jane saved Titch , a black and white kitten who was going to be put down . |
| 6 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 7 | In the evening Kalchu went round the village from house to house until he found someone who was going to the Bazaar the following day . |
| 8 | The leave-taking this time was formal , bearing none of the displays of emotion that had marked Prince Richard 's departure — the queen-dowager was but bidding farewell , it was thought , to her son 's bride , a young lady who was going to the royal palace within the Tower to keep company for a time with her husband . |
| 9 | The cottage on the left here was bought by some business type who was going to weekend here with his girlfriend . |
| 10 | But here was Mick telling him something , he was talking about a young girl , not a little girl , a young girl who was going to be a secretary . |
| 11 | A friend , Dick Wixsom , had heard about 1051 , which was now advertised in Trade-A-Plane and he asked his son , Kevin , who was going to Florida on his spring holiday , to find the aircraft and to photograph what he saw . |
| 12 | When I was very young — about 5 years old — I wanted to be a pilot because I had this girlfriend who was going to be a stewardess . |
| 13 | In a recent large UK search the company in question called on five of the major search firms , and invited them all in to make a competitive pitch to decide who was going to be successful at finding them a group chief executive . |
| 14 | I wondered who was going to tea at the pavillon . |
| 15 | He asked after Fred 's new play and she ran on with unconvincing enthusiasm about a young actress who was going to be in it . |
| 16 | In a moment of horror , the shop assistant saw him , unforgettably : a little boy , wearing a badly-made blazer , who was going to be run over and killed . |
| 17 | Er Deborah did a sheet with everybody on , who was going to be appraising who . |
| 18 | She snapped to attention and glared at Roman — he was the one who was going to sleep ; she must remain alert . |
| 19 | What did someone who was going to work on a production line need to learn French for ? |
| 20 | but all of which are gone and we 've replaced them with these since many , you know , quite a few years ago , er we bought one utility suite from an engineer who was going to Rhodesia and that 's in our second bedroom still it 's , well the bed is but the |
| 21 | For a moment , she found herself wondering who was going to be the lucky recipient of those devastatingly good looks . |
| 22 | ‘ When I started out I met a kid who was going to be a detective . |
| 23 | Th do you remember er who was going to , oh I do n't it was the store that Robin made . |
| 24 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 25 | 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 . |