Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [was/were] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I once had two weeks to learn to love everything , two weeks until I was to be shot . |
| 2 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 3 | I saw some of the places that were to play an important part in the later dramas of my life : the great Clerecia church where I was to be sitting one momentous morning , and beside it the lovely Casa de las Conchas , its walls decorated with rows of carved scallop shells — seven rows adorn the upper storeys . |
| 4 | It was from Magda that we heard early in September that a British Sunday newspaper had reported that an Iranian with close links to Hezbollah had said in Beirut that I was to be released immediately . |
| 5 | They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered . |
| 6 | George and I were to be victims , I was to be taken to the top floor and George to the third floor up . |
| 7 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |