I'm gaun to be captain o' a band o' robbers—will ye baith join?
Are ye gaun to pit on that dress on Sabbath at the Sunday school?
We are gaun to see our faither," said Vara, speaking the truth.
And then he louped in front on an engine gaun at full speed and to draw some bairns frae below the wheels," said Tam Fraser, giving the local version, corrected to date.
She kens nocht aboot it, but I ken fine she's gaun to stan' in wi' us!
I was gaun to tell ye in the mornin' aboot the button needing sewin' on.
I'm no gaun to keep company wi' ony man that gangs on the nicht shift!
Weel, Miss Celie, I can see that ye are no gaun to do muckle guid amang us boys, if I dinna tell ye.
Thae bairns' faither never got to Liverpool; consequently it's little use them gaun there to seek him.
I'm vexed, Vara, I'm sair vexed that ye are gaun awa' to leave us!
But I was gaun to tell your honour of ane that has mair skeel o' the gate than me, and that's e'en Madge Wildfire.
But whisht, the Court isgaun to pronounce the interlocutor of relevancy.
It would hardly become my station now, mother, to begaun flaunting about in silks.
Johnny, with dreadful energy, "are ye no gaun to Leith?
I see it's settled that I am never to get hame again; but to be keepit gaun frae place to place ower the face o' the earth, like anither wanderin' Jew.
Hae, there's a letter to him; I was gaun to send it in another way.
For my part I think--but there's Mr. Mortcloke to tell us they are gaun to lift.
But little did I think what skating wark he was gaun about--to shoot Mr. Charles, the innocent lamb!
And so ye see, sir, I am no clear to swear without speaking to the minister, especially against ony sackless puir young thing that's gaun through the country, stranger and freendless like.
Dinmont, occupying with less ceremony a seat at the bottom of the table; 'or else they hae taen Yule before it comes, and are gaun a- guisarding.
There is some wark gaun on that'll bother the big-wigs at Lunnun, when the proper time comes.
Never did that in my life to onybody, and I'm no gaun to begin now,' replied Willie.
We hae had families, from time to time, for a month or twa in the summer season, but nae reglar tenant since Mr Darsy himsel left, and that's gaun noo in ten years since.
It was on a Saturday nicht, I mind, just afore I was gaun to drap work, that three or four acquaintances cam into the shop to wush me joy, and they insisted I should pay off for the weddin.
I was gaun to come out wi'--since I rode whip and spur to fetch the Chevalier to redd Mr. Wauverley and Vich Ian Vohr; and an uncanny coup I gat for my pains.
Southland gentleman, that's gaun to be hanged for shooting lang John Mucklewrath the smith!
She's gaun to mak' a suit for me oot o' my faither's auld breeks.
They're no gaun to die at a dike side if they can get a mouthfu' for the askin.
But what's strange in the notion o' me gaunaboot the country?
But I reckon ye'll be gaun to mak an antic o't, as ye hae dune wi' mony an orra thing besides.
It seemed she was gaunto speak, but wanted words, an' made a sign wi' the left hand.
Janet was what is called a "through-gaun lass," and her work for the day was often over by eight o'clock in the morning.
I had been crost and put about wi' them a' that year, and I was just gaun to bring the screw to the neb o' the mire-snipe.
And now for him of the red head," says he; "was he gaun fast or slow?
I'se no gaun a fit till I hae showed ye baith what it is to guddle.
I was gaun to stand wi' my back til't, sae that they micht ken there was naebody luikin'.
Na, na, when Jock sees the blue smoor o' Auld Reeky gaunup into the lift he'll turn an' gae hame.
I am gaun to hang him," the old man thundered, "just as soon as I have had my dinner.
Dinmont, occupying with less ceremony a seat at the bottom of the table; 'or else they hae taen Yule before it comes, and are gaun a-guisarding.
An ye be gaun to court a wife, As ye do tell to me, 'T is ye sal hae my Fusome Fug, Your ae wife for to be.
O I am gaun to court a wife, And think na ye that's weel dune?
Are there any weddings in this place, | Or any gaun to be?
An though I for my hame-gaun sich[t], He keepit me a' the simmer night.
Though for my hame-gaun I oft sicht, He keepit me a' the simmer night.
Says the false knight upon the road: 'I am gaun to the schule,' Says the wee boy, and still he stood.
Then they were dismissed curtly, but not unkindly; and Gaun Neeven felt his room to be all the darker and lonelier when the mischief-loving laddies were gone.
Gaun Neeven said to himself with a sigh, as he picked up the book Tom had been reading; "a happy sort of animal on the whole.
It was a satisfactory retreat from the world for Gaun Neeven, who lived alone with a half-witted attendant in the old house of Trullyabister.
He's gaun to Maister Murray--an' no sik a late date neither.
Then there's nae use o' my gaun ony farer," said the shepherd thoughtfully.
And I wad say for certain, that I am gaun to quit at Cannlemas, only I was just as positive on it twenty years syne, and I find mysell still turning up the mouls here, for a' that.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gaun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
