Example sentences of "[that] [pron] were [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did n't my father tell me that you were going to be here ? ’ she asked petulantly , thinking that at least he would only be around during the daytime , and she could avoid him completely without too much trouble . |
| 2 | When it began to dawn that you were going to be out more than a fortnight or three weeks , did anything emerge that w that you can see was to keep you encouraged for that period ? |
| 3 | You did say er , Bishop that you were going to be frank and you certainly turned a few corners there for us to think about . |
| 4 | He had discovered that you were allowed to be drunk in charge of a boat , so he pub-crawled on the river . |
| 5 | Obviously with so many having lost their lives on the disaster , you say that you do n't feel it 's maybe an act of God int hat sense , that you were picked to be saved , but erm you do n't feel any guilt as such either , o that you were one of the ones and er so many others had been lost ? |
| 6 | Two of us decided in favour of The Sunday Times and against Mrs Thatcher , and those two did n't give a damn for Mrs Thatcher , we each of us decided it was a matter of principle , knowing that we were bound to be criticised , whatever we did , and we decided it , and there 's an end of it . |
| 7 | Obviously the maid was disguised in view of the fact that we were known to be looking for two women travelling together . |
| 8 | But , wherever we went , whatever we did , we were accompanied by the innate , subconscious awareness that we were expected to be grateful . |
| 9 | This house was to be Lovat 's Brigade H.Q and it appeared that we were going to be there on high ground for some time . |
| 10 | It appeared that we were going to be there for some time . |
| 11 | I thought that we were going to be able to love without fear . |
| 12 | So I 'm a little tired of that and I was very happy to hear that we were going to be exchanging ideas about how we can go forward . |
| 13 | Clearly if I had been aware that we were going to be talking about the merits of other routes , then I would have prepared a different statement . |
| 14 | Henry II would need to have been an unusually stupid man not to realize that there were bound to be difficult moments in the relationship between him and his heir . |
| 15 | Benny realised that there were going to be a great many areas where she would be at a loss . |
| 16 | My next thought was that there were going to be a lot of other pissed-off people . |
| 17 | And T X R X , B B C Radio Nottingham , to the effect that there were going to be these regular advice sessions at , which is the ac the tenants ' action group office . |
| 18 | Both Warnie and Minto were jealous of anyone who claimed Jack 's love ; this meant that they were bound to be jealous of one another , since for both of them Jack was the most important person in the universe . |
| 19 | That the police should stop law-abiding Kent miners at the Dartford tunnel on the grounds that they were thought to be destined for the Yorkshire coalfield two hundred miles away was remarkable indeed . |
| 20 | I knew that they were sincere and above all that they were meant to be helpful . |
| 21 | He said and I do n't think that they were meant to be perhaps they were meant to be in order of importance . |
| 22 | On the other hand , the teacher could have injected an element extrinsic to the drama in the structure by warning the listeners beforehand that they were going to be required to make an accurate report to the rest of the class with the talkers assessing their report for accuracy . |
| 23 | Apparently Swedish cows , secure in the knowledge that they were going to be stunned by true Aryans before they were slaughtered , were happy and friendly towards man ; British cows , who might be bled to death for kosher meat , had no such guarantee and were morose and sullen as a result . |
| 24 | The confusion , fortified by a fear on the part of some members that they were going to be asked to make way for Austen Chamberlain and Birkenhead , gave Baldwin almost complete freedom . |
| 25 | The consumer was helping to delay recovery ; the consumer was scared , afraid that they were going to be squeezed further . |
| 26 | Well as I say , I had , I do n't , I have n't really had any involvement really with talking to people about their experience of living in the flats until people knew that they were going to be moved out eventually . |
| 27 | Perhaps the furthest idea from their hearts was that they were going to be attacked . ’ |
| 28 | Not that she cared that they were going to be spending so much time together , she reminded herself hastily . |
| 29 | When he left he took a pile of exercise books , a scrapbook and a diary , but a first glance at their contents did not suggest that they were going to be fruitful . |
| 30 | I do n't know what question to I thought all were supported out , with the assumption that they were going to be |