Example sentences of "knew [pron] was [verb] to be " in BNC.

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1 It did n't bother me , I knew I was engaged to be married , and in those days as soon as you were going to be married you left your job … that is the only thing we girls had to look forward to , getting married and going on our own , getting our bottom drawer together and things like that …
2 ‘ I knew I was going to be tough to beat this week .
3 I knew I was going to be deceived .
4 Once his tongue was loosened , I knew I was going to be told more than I wanted to know about Jean-Claude 's past .
5 ‘ It was pretty obvious that you were n't too happy when you knew I was going to be working here .
6 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 .
7 This time I knew everything was going to be alright .
8 And I 'm sure a lot of times he had no idea what was going to come out , but he knew there was going to be some sort of feedback or something , so he 'd just play with it when it came . ’
9 Somehow we got ashore and into the stockade , but we knew there was going to be a fight . ’
10 If a Burton man turned his empty beer-pot upside down on the table they knew there was going to be trouble .
11 We spent a day together when it was finished because I knew there was going to be a fuss .
12 ‘ I knew there was going to be lot of stigma , because it was heroin , ’ she says .
13 He was only a couple of years older than Jack but he was huge — almost as wide as he was tall — and although Jack had never had much to do with him he knew he was reputed to be a bully .
14 As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married .
15 Farrell knew he was going to be sick .
16 Derek felt taken aback , as he knew he was meant to be , by this sudden revelation .
17 ‘ As soon as I stood up I knew it was going to be bad .
18 Manager Eric Sortwell said : ‘ We knew it was going to be busy but not as busy as this . ’
19 With this attitude , despite the bad start , we knew it was going to be a Happy New Year after all , and set about restoring some order to our home … , .
20 Freak ‘ I knew it was going to be a long day .
21 The laugh she gave was so dirty that I knew it was going to be all right .
22 I was No 1 in my sophomore year , and I knew it was going to be even tougher to be a top ranking player on the Pro-Tour . ’
23 You knew it was going to be awful , but you had to know .
24 ‘ You knew it was going to be like this , Frank , ’ he said .
25 ‘ You knew it was going to be me , ’ he said .
26 AS SOON AS YOU AWOKE you knew it was going to be hot .
27 Luke grinned , and suddenly she knew it was going to be all right .
28 Somehow she had to learn to live with the pain of the deception and get on with her life , but she knew it was going to be the hardest thing she had ever had to do .
29 I knew it was going to be the red Sierra . ’
30 Nobody knew what was meant to be going on .
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