Example sentences of "[conj] i [was/were] [adj] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found the article very interesting , & I was glad to be reminded of the pictures . |
| 2 | Although I was anxious to be there I did n't get the chance because Mrs Smith gave birth to a baby girl in the early hours of the morning later that week . |
| 3 | It was just after this that I was privileged to be able to visit the British Museum and by the courtesy of Mr Rex Barker , son-in-law of the landlord of the Five Bells , Mr McCaffery , I was able to view and handle the remains of our oldest inhabitant . |
| 4 | I realised that I was lucky to be able to go to England and teach . |
| 5 | The only person not wholly in sympathy with this plan was the bartender who complained that I was supposed to be off duty and that the passengers should come to the bar to buy the drinks themselves ; I was syphoning off his tips . |
| 6 | I spent little time at home now , so I was unable to be a detailed witness to the Great Love in the same account-keeping way as before . |
| 7 | Lord Christopher and I were supposed to be going on weekend leave to Paris . ’ |
| 8 | Chamberlain and I were inclined to be impatient when we saw him so reluctant to take the only course which seemed to us possible . ’ |
| 9 | I understand that the pilot schemes have proved effective and I was delighted to be told in answer to a parliamentary question this week that other pilot schemes elsewhere in the country will be launched . |
| 10 | I will be launching the birthday year in January when I hope that among other things , we might succeed in gaining recognition for Eglantine Jebb and our many achievements for children and I was delighted to be asked to chair the birthday advisory group and to be closely involved with activities during nineteen ninety four . |
| 11 | He was a dear , lively little man with the bluest of blue eyes who had himself became a fanatical Anglophile , devoting his life until well into his eighties to the furtherance of Anglo-German relations ; and I was proud to be asked to give one of the brief tributes to him at his memorial service at the German Embassy . |
| 12 | And I was proud to be the " vitnery " and part of the life of the town . |
| 13 | This was my theological college and I was anxious to be sound and reliable . |
| 14 | Arthur Benjamin and Ira Dilworth became close friends , and I was fortunate to be associated with both . |
| 15 | Porterfield added : ‘ We started well but lost it a bit and I was happy to be level at half-time . |
| 16 | I never got cross , but he wanted an audience and I was prepared to be one . |
| 17 | I 'm not patting myself on the back — it 's a highly competitive business and one needs selfish , single-minded dedication to succeed , but because female comics were rare in my day , competition was negligible , and I was able to be generous . |
| 18 | After dinner Mr and Mrs Webster retired to the ‘ Front Room ’ to sleep off the meal , and I was glad to be going on evening watch , which I believed would help to dispel my sense of isolation . |
| 19 | That argument would I think be very persuasive if I were able to be confident that the levels of conversion is one which would be an adequate and proper one , it is relatively new , there is nothing wrong with that , it is not apparently been a conversion which has been put into practice , except in the last year because have only started conversion when the Nissan Serena was brought out . |
| 20 | ‘ I was n't sure if I was supposed to be wandering round , and I was going to bring Gwendoline Bear with me for company , but she does n't like strangers , so I came by myself . ’ |
| 21 | He waited for me every year — we came back for about six years , until I was ready to be sent to finishing school . |
| 22 | But I was delighted to be asked and I must say that I found Heffernan 's style of management very much to my liking . ’ |
| 23 | I did n't know what was going on , but I was happy to be there , sipping Dennis 's eight-quid-a-bottle plonk , trading glances with his vibrant young — well , youngish — wife and openly admiring the charms of her lovely concentrated body . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not being modest about it , but I was lucky to be in the right place at the vital moment ’ , he says . |
| 25 | I wished somebody else was at home because I was afraid to be in the house with him in this mood . |
| 26 | While I was supposed to be at the beck and call of not only my husband but even his parents , his going around with other women was just taken for granted . |
| 27 | Walk ‘ I 've worked since I was five to be a top ballerina . |
| 28 | ‘ I started out with a dream when I was 13 to be a musician … |