Sentence examples for told was going from inspiring English sources

"That's what I was told was going to happen.

The announcement I was told was going to be about the restructuring of my department.

It was sort of a last-minute thing, and the political machine that controlled the Senate seat, he was told, was going to stay that way".

So yes, everything I had been told was going to happen did happen.

The drive, we were told, was going to take an hour, which, when you're half cut and filled to burst, losing interest in anything that isn't more booze and fags by the millisecond, seems like an extraordinarily long time.

Hayden's answer was to ignore all the various promises the American people were made in the run up to war and beyond - of quick battles, occupancies that would last mere months, cakewalks, missions accomplished, last throes, and imminent drawdowns - and insist that the current state of play is something that we were always told was going to happen.

"To get all of them is going to take longer, and it's going to require further refinements in our methodology, but I actually think that the story I told is going to become a common story.

This doesn't mean that the lies Iran's leaders are telling are going to work.

"I was told I was going to be the scalp".

"I'm not concerned because I was told this was going to happen," Jeter said.

"Nobody's been told this was going to happen in August," he said.