Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] i [was/were] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 2 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 3 | Yesterday evening , for instance , I realized that I was smiling to myself ( I was thinking about writing this minute ! ) and it set off a substantial debate , conducted entirely in silence . |
| 4 | so I put if I was attracted to my |
| 5 | Well when i was a wee boy the loch had never looked it before the barriers was built When I was going to school Well I was born I started a co school at nineteen eighteen . |
| 6 | He asked if I was related to Margaret . ’ |
| 7 | And my excessively tidy and authoritarian behaviour shows that I was striving to be the person the school wanted me to be . |
| 8 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 9 | She adds : ‘ I lay awake at nights wondering whether I was going to be honest . |
| 10 | Stopping to ask a local woman where I might find Dr Mareda , I discovered that I was speaking to his companion , Vera , and that I had stopped outside their front door . |
| 11 | I was damned if I was going to be last . |
| 12 | I said I had to leave because I was going to dinner . |
| 13 | ‘ I was sacked because I was known to the local RUC as an ex-republican prisoner , ’ he said from Portlaoise Prison . |
| 14 | I had n't known that I was going to be presented with such a large sum . |
| 15 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 16 | I really had to decide that I was going to , you know , it was really worth going . |
| 17 | And I knew that I was going to be all right . |
| 18 | in nineteen eighty six I think it was the company divisionalized and I was promoted to sales and marketing director of the erm , I think it was the developments division , which was , was the retirement housing division |
| 19 | But shortly after I came out of hospital , I dreamt that I was going to be executed . |
| 20 | What kind of a reception would I get if I were to go to your mother now ? |
| 21 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 22 | You brought me a hare to eat when I was starving to death . ’ |
| 23 | He looked at my pityingly , no doubt thinking that I was succumbing to the English diseases , amateurism and laziness . |
| 24 | Lord Lloyd interviewed me , and explained that I was to report to the Military Attaché at the Baghdad Embassy , though I was to be attached to the British Institute . |
| 25 | You see if I was to say to you , right well I am gon na go out and purchase something , I 'm gon na get something and give it to you as a gift |
| 26 | I wondered if I was allowed to . |
| 27 | What did you say to me on he phone when I was talking to Tracey ? |