Example sentences of "[adv] that i [was/were] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was just that I was longing to be your hostess . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Everton 's Peter Beardsley made a less optimistic assessment : ‘ When we get players injured there 's nothing like the depth of talent in reserve here that I was used to at Liverpool . |
| 5 | I did n't know then that I was going to be a politician . ’ |
| 6 | I knew then that I was going to be an artist . |