Example sentences of "[that] [pron] was [verb] to be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You are not of that opinion ? ’ enquired Lili , her head tilted in a way that I was beginning to be familiar with .
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 And my excessively tidy and authoritarian behaviour shows that I was striving to be the person the school wanted me to be .
7 It suddenly became clear to me that I was assumed to be equally as wilfully ignorant .
8 I did n't know then that I was going to be a politician . ’
9 Now that it was really beginning , now that I was going to be near him , I felt as strung up and as energized as Zak , and no doubt suffered the same compelling anxiety that things should n't go wrong .
10 I knew then that I was going to be an artist .
11 The story was so mad that your brother was being told to shoot Martin Meehan and that I was going to be interned for doing nothing . ’
12 I had n't known that I was going to be presented with such a large sum .
13 But shortly after I came out of hospital , I dreamt that I was going to be executed .
14 ‘ Especially when I was shutting myself away until two or three in the morning , so that I was absolutely certain that I was going to be able to go into the studio a few hours later and deliver something that was believable and complete . ’
15 I think I wanted to convince myself that I was going to be all right because if I did n't and if I stopped to think about what was really going on , I would have been a mess .
16 And I knew that I was going to be all right .
17 It was just that I was longing to be your hostess . ’
18 When found , her behaviour was such that she was thought to be mentally deficient :
19 Even from the distance she could see Doreen clasping his arm while looking up into his face , and it was easy to guess that she was pleading to be moved into a chalet .
20 Some said that she was going to be the wife of Fahfakhs .
21 Her teacher would n't worry , since she had alerted her that she was going to be away and promised to bring a note on her return .
22 She knew then , as he stared at her icily that she was going to be on the receiving end of a straightforward , ‘ Not , ’ at any moment now .
23 And it was wonderful to have heard from Liz today , when her cousin had rung to wish her a happy birthday , that she was expected to be discharged from hospital in about a week 's time .
24 The fact that she was known to be on a special complex carbohydrate diet designed to help her regain weight did n't help matters .
25 Detectives in Colchester expressed concern for Lisa 's safety following her disappearance and revealed that she was known to be upset over personal problems .
26 Marshall 's instant thought was that she was waiting to be picked up .
27 Dyson began to feel that everything was going to be all right .
28 She had ten minutes , that was all , to see that her mother was safely tucked up on Hunter Ward , and reassured that everything was going to be all right .
29 Guy 's low voice had a hypnotic quality which had a strangely calming effect on Lucy , but even so Virginia had an appalling fear that everything was going to be far from all right .
30 Since then , there have been about half a dozen glitzy launches — featuring among others , the Home Secretary grinning into the television cameras , telling us that something was going to be done some time .
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