Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was scheduled to be a member of that crew and had been issued with my kit , overseas bag etc and was delighted to have been chosen for the ‘ jolly ’ , but someone ‘ pulled rank ’ and took my place , thus saving my life and losing his . |
| 2 | ‘ I was born to be a Headmaster so that 's what I was called . |
| 3 | Sometimes I think I was intended to be an only child , and got born into a large family by a mistake . |
| 4 | And my excessively tidy and authoritarian behaviour shows that I was striving to be the person the school wanted me to be . |
| 5 | No , I , really just to see what , what everyone else was doing , I mean I was thinking of is a little |
| 6 | As I was saying to you the other day , laddie , because I was aiming to be a fighting man I would n't get married . |
| 7 | Somewhere I had read that a gentleman is one who never causes pain ; perhaps I was trying to be a gentleman . |
| 8 | Erm so on that one that 's , that 's you did n't use any slang , the belief in the way you asked I think that came out , I was trying to be a prospective client rather than be the trainer cos I could see that Mike was uncomfortable and I was trying to , well okay , how , how would I well I think yeah there was a belief that you had there , I think he was er reasonably attentive , Mike , to your response ? |
| 9 | The only thing I was blessed with was the music in my feet . |
| 10 | I cursed myself for lack of balance ; I was determined to be a professional dancer . |
| 11 | I was asked to be a coachman for Cinderella with my best friend , of course I was very excited and as the time grew nearer my costume was made and fitted . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London . |
| 14 | Oh no no no oh no that th er I that is not in er what I was talking about was the social values , er not the existence of the welfare state . |
| 15 | Anyway this boy and I was judged to be the most original and the best you see . |
| 16 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 17 | Once , I was going to be a bridesmaid in a blue dress , and when I needed new shoes before the wedding , I refused to have blue shoes , insisting on brown ones . |
| 18 | I did n't know then that I was going to be a politician . ’ |
| 19 | So , I thought I was going to be a freelancer — what a fool . |
| 20 | I was going to be a pro racer and was doing real good until , at thirteen , I was goofing around and broke my arm . ’ |
| 21 | I was going to be a model . |
| 22 | ‘ I was going to be a concert violinist . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I was going to be a kennel-maid , ’ said Camille , ‘ only I had n't quite decided . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Well , all right , so I thought the decision was surprising , but I 'd long since realized that if I allowed that sort of thing to keep me awake at night I was going to be a chronic insomniac . |
| 25 | ‘ You thought I was going to be a lot more fun , did n't you ? ’ she asked gently . |
| 26 | I knew then that I was going to be an artist . |
| 27 | Mainly to get me out of the house , probably , but when I told my father I was going to be an actor he immediately thought I 'd turned gay . |
| 28 | I was going to be an engine-driver . |
| 29 | ‘ The gaffer said I was going to be an economist , and that was that . ’ |
| 30 | I told them I was going to be the British number one . |