Example sentences of "[coord] i be [prep] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Robert Brackenbury , constable of the Tower , informed me this morning that my brother and I are to be moved . ’ |
| 2 | Rosita and I are to be punished , stuck there with long faces , alongside our fellow wrong-doers , representations of swarthy people , black as tea taken without milk . |
| 3 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 4 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 5 | They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered . |
| 6 | You were being frightened off because you 'd started asking questions , but I was to be killed because I 'd found some answers . ’ |
| 7 | It had dawned on me that not only was I leaving the comfortingly familiar surroundings of primary school but that I no longer had any influence whatsoever on the other pupils at the school which I had had before but I was to be demoted to ‘ the annoying first year ’ . |