Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] was [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point , he was screaming at the top of his voice ; he also relived his own birth , met his fears of homosexuality and had the most terrifying fright ‘ that my prick was going to be cut off ’ . |
| 2 | My blackness was seen to be a public and political fact , whereas my gayness was seen as a purely personal matter . |
| 3 | Then the war loomed up black and sinister ; my work was going to be interrupted . |
| 4 | When I was anorexic I had only dim feelings of resentment as to how my body was destined to be used , and the thought of anything as positive and specific as penetration never entered my mind . |
| 5 | Telling my Pop was going to be the worst bit . |
| 6 | The rear door of the car opened and my father was observed to be standing there , a few steps back from the vehicle , gazing steadily into the interior . |
| 7 | I went to the bar racks , the caserna , in Fontanellato to find out when my father was going to be released , but was told that they did not know , for he was in the hands of the Secret Police . |
| 8 | I could never have imagined , however , how rich my life was going to be : how many friends we were to make , the places in the world we were to visit , and all the wealth of love and kindness from others we were to experience . |
| 9 | If someone had told me a month before that my life was going to be changed so dramatically , I would not have believed them . |
| 10 | I carried on , wondering if my destination was going to be a nineteenth-century asylum , or the sixteenth century . |
| 11 | Yet what I was really doing was hardening myself against disappointment — my mother was going to be abroad when the baby was born . |
| 12 | On Monday many years ago my mother was preparing to be brought to bed of me … on the Thursday following . |
| 13 | And from then on , er there was never a hitch at all , my mother was considered to be one of the best butter maker i in the vicinity . |
| 14 | My boyfriend was allowed to be by my side throughout this operation . |
| 15 | He was replaced by Oscar Orbos , the Transport and Communications Secretary , whom Aquino was believed to be cultivating as a possible presidential successor on the expiry of her current term of office in 1992 . |
| 16 | Its decision was thought to be motivated by concern about pressure from the US , which threatened during the meeting to impose trade sanctions on countries that resumed commercial whaling . |
| 17 | The gap between the ride and the swamp was a different matter , for if the children were attempting that route their progress was bound to be slow . |
| 18 | Nobody knew for certain which building was going to be used , but there was a strong rumour that it was going to be the orfanotrofio , the orphanage . |
| 19 | The couple , from Grimsby , Humberside , first feared their wedding was going to be a washout because of torrential rain . |
| 20 | They were taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital where their condition was said to be stable . |
| 21 | Britain 's voluntary , though gradual , conversion of the colonial Empire into the British Commonwealth of Nations would help her recovery as a great power : her military commitments to provide overseas garrisons should diminish , and her influence was expected to be enhanced as she became the central pivot of an association of free and independent states girdling the globe . |
| 22 | She 'd progressed from a rather lowly start to her present place on the team with IMP just at the time when the true importance of the fuel companies and their technicians was beginning to be appreciated by the general public , or at least those aficionados who followed the world of Grand Prix racing . |
| 23 | Although her candidacy was dismissed in most quarters as irrelevant , she was potentially the best-funded of the candidates ( although much of her wealth was believed to be inaccessible in frozen Swiss bank accounts ) and had the advantage of the remnants of her husband 's huge patronage network . |
| 24 | Another conference on Jan. 27 , at which membership was reported to be between 150,000 and 200,000 , approved a programme favouring " radical disarmament and demilitarization of society , … a solidarity-based society which rests on the self-determination and tolerance of its citizens " , and the development of " the social net parallel to the [ market ] economy " . |
| 25 | Then came the day when his own two sons came home and asked their mother ‘ when their Daddy was going to be killed , because all racing-driver daddies got killed ’ . |
| 26 | The package of share options and perks on offer if LWT retained its franchise was said to be worth £3m . |
| 27 | TOP STORES were slammed yesterday after a third of their ham was found to be contaminated with food bugs . |
| 28 | Her name was said to be Gilda . |
| 29 | Later opium-like activity was found in a group of larger peptides , named endorphins , and of which enkephalin was shown to be a key fragment . |
| 30 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |