Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [was/were] to be a " in BNC.
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1 | She left elementary school at fourteen to take a job filling seed packets for five shillings a week ; later she worked for a draper and subsequently for the Co-op , where she joined the union movement of which she was to be a lifelong member . |
2 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
3 | I learned for the first time what it was to be a stranger , an immigrant from primitive parts who spoke with a funny accent and called things by their wrong names . |
4 | On the other hand , I had also been instructed in what it was to be a woman and how to function successfully in that role . |
5 | Jo Spence I think it was then I was ill that I understood for the first time what it was to be a victim . |
6 | She nurtured an artistic , creative ego and vision according to the ready models of what it was to be a ‘ Great Artist ’ . |