Example sentences of "[conj] i was [vb pp] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Robin Tavistock 's table , where I was honoured to be seated , was a superb square birthday cake , iced in Robin 's racing colours , with fifty tiny candles in miniature gold candelabras . |
| 2 | V.W. I 'm not quite the loony that I was seen to be six years ago , when I first came in the school . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Did you not know that I was bound to be in my Father 's house ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant . |
| 7 | The satisfaction with which the new prayer book was received and used quickly resulted in a request that the Burmese hymn book should be revised and enlarged , and I was asked to be the editor and secretary of the small revision committee . |
| 8 | Anyway this boy and I was judged to be the most original and the best you see . |
| 9 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 10 | Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop . |
| 11 | and I was meant to be taking it in today , but I forgot and so I just |
| 12 | And I was sponsored to be bored to death by a friend , who talked to me non-stop for three hours . ’ |
| 13 | Not because I was made to be late , but I , I , I , I 'd , me mother had made me cos she said you got ta come home to your dinner and there was no buses there were trams in them days , but I 'd got to get into the town . |
| 14 | Just as Sgt Wilson 's thesis was channelled to me because I was known to be interested in research , so many police research departments now get allocated the task of reading the essays submitted by sergeants and inspectors for NEBS or DMS qualifications . |
| 15 | But Victoria is wondering why I always come with you , when I was employed to be on duty here . ’ |
| 16 | There was little time for dalliance when we came out from Sunday School as I was expected to be home for tea at half-past four . |
| 17 | ( I had taken to climbing over the railings of the barracks each night , as the watchmen on the gate had been forbidden to let me in as I was known to be sleeping there . |